Lord Darlington Quotes in A Good Woman (2004)

Lord Darlington: I like America. Name me another society that's gone from barbarism to decadence without bothering to create a civilization in between.

Lord Darlington: All paying jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Robert Windemere: You never had a paying job.

Lord Darlington: I rest my case. Cultivated leisure is man's true calling.

Lord Darlington: Gossip is alright. It's the moralizing that is in poor taste.

Cecil: Men advance, women resist. We retreat and they block our escape. We can't win.

Lord Darlington: The sexes will never understand each other.

Cecil: Only because they take such pains to deceive each other.

Lord Darlington: I like America. Name me another society that's gone from barbarism to decadence without bothering to create a civilization in between.

Tuppy: A tribute to American efficiency.

Dumby: Bigamy is having more than one wife too many.

Lord Darlington: So is monogamy.

Lord Darlington: I've thought very seriously of marrying. That's why I'm still single.

Dumby: One should always have a proper basis for marriage. A mutual...

Lord Darlington: Misunderstanding?

Dumby: Exactly.

Lord Darlington: I find the best way to keep my word is never to give it.

Alessandra: Now I see uncle. He's with the American woman.

Contessa Lucchino: Too much rouge and not enough clothing. She's appealing to the worst in the poor man.

Lord Darlington: It's what women do best.

Lord Darlington: Marital bliss is a terrible burden to place on two people, Tuppy. Sometimes a third person is needed to lighten the load.

Lord Darlington: All of which, mind you, is time well spent in my book. So, yes, I take your point, I can't argue. At the club, we'd be with other people. Afraid we'll be seen? Set the chins wagging? Do you know what I find worse than being talked about? Not being talked about at all.