Rudolf Rassendyll Quotes in The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)

Rudolf Rassendyll: I know my clothes are a little conservative, but we English always dress as if we're going to a funeral when we're on a holiday.

Rudolf Rassendyll: I probably looked like a prize idiot and talked like one too.

Princess Flavia: You're too modest. You really looked and acted like a King today.

Rudolf Rassendyll: Oh, thank you.

Princess Flavia: It was delightfully unexpected.

Rudolf Rassendyll: Oh.

Rudolf Rassendyll: I was hoping that our skeleton was safe at home in our family cupboard.

Fritz von Tarlenheim: Some skeletons are prodigious travelers.

Rudolf Rassendyll: Well I think everything went off very well don't you? For a coronation. I mean, that is, not that a coronation shouldn't go well. Provided the king puts in an appearance suitably dressed and suitably rehearsed.

Princess Flavia: And suitably sober.

Rudolf Rassendyll: And suitably sober! Yes, I was hoping you would notice that.

Rudolf Rassendyll: [having difficulty putting on the King's ring] I hope the crown's a better fit.

Rudolf Rassendyll: But surely, no woman in her right senses would prefer the duke to you.

Rupert of Hentzau: Women are never in their right senses, thank goodness!

Rudolf Rassendyll: I hope your trout take as much interest in me as you do. I shan't be able to land them fast enough.

King Rudolf V: I propose a toast.

Man: Here here!

Fritz von Tarlenheim: Another toast!

King Rudolf V: A toast to... have we anybody left?

Rudolf Rassendyll: Your brother Michael, perhaps?

King Rudolf V: We drink to Michael in vinegar, my friend, not in good wine.

Rudolf Rassendyll: [when his life is threatened by Hentzau] Half my kingdom... for a match.