Sir Robert Chiltern Quotes in An Ideal Husband (1999)

Sir Robert Chiltern: I will give you any sum of money you want.

Laura: Even you are not rich enough to buy back your past, Sir Robert. No man is.

Sir Robert Chiltern: Do you know, Arthur, I sometimes wish I were you.

Lord Arthur Goring: Do you know, Robert, sometimes I wish you were too. Except that you would probably make something useful out of my life, and that would never do.

Sir Robert Chiltern: If you are suggesting, Sir Edward, that my position in society owes anything to my wife, you are utterly mistaken. It owes everything to my wife.

Sir Robert Chiltern: Anyway, what's that saying about the sea and there being plenty of fish in it?

Lord Arthur Goring: Ah, yes, but I couldn't possibly marry a fish. I'd be sure to land an old trout.

Mrs. Cheveley: I want to talk to you about a great political and financial scheme, about this Argentine Canal Company, in fact.

Sir Robert Chiltern: What a tedious, practical subject for you to talk about Mrs. Cheveley!

Laura: Oh, I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don't like are tedious, practical people.

Sir Robert Chiltern: Is it fair, Arthur?

Lord Arthur Goring: Life is never fair, Robert. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.