Don't Take It to Heart! (1944)

Joyce Barbour: Harriet

Quotes 

• Harriet : Did Mr. Hayward say where he was wounded?

  Ghost : Dunkirk, I think.

  Harriet : That wasn't what I meant.

• Mary : Just because hundreds of years ago somebody knocked somebody else off a horse, George Bucket isn't good enough to speak to us. Well, he's good enough to fight for us. And when he comes back, if he still wants me to, I intend to marry him. And no-one's going to stop me!

  Lord Chaunduyt : I think she really means it.

  Harriet : There was a time when age entitled one to a little respect.

  Lord Chaunduyt : I think the young people are beginning to see through that one.

• Lord Chaunduyt : Besides, he's in the Army now.

  Harriet : You say that as if the Army were a monastery. From what I hear, it's not at all the same thing.

• Lord Chaunduyt : My dear Harriet, for a Tenant's Ball, one needs two things - money and tenants. We've none of one and very few off the other.

  Harriet : Of course there'll be a ball. No "Bouquet" ever became of age without one.

  Lord Chaunduyt : No "Bouquet" ever came of age in the middle of a world war.

  Harriet : That is not our fault.

  Lord Chaunduyt : I wonder.

• Lord Chaunduyt : The telephone!

  Harriet : Yes. I paid your account. I was tired of never being able to ring you.

• Harriet : Bucket, who's that young man in the garden?

  Butler : That's a professor, ma'am. He's working on the old manuscripts.

  Harriet : Hmmm. At the moment he seems to be working on my niece.

• Harriet : He looks very virile for a professor.

  Butler : I find him a very pleasant young gentleman, ma'am.

  Harriet : Oh, you do, do you?

• Harriet : Arthur, you wouldn't say I was being unreasonable, would you?

  Ghost : No, dear.

  Harriet : You'd better not.

• Harriet : As a member of a titled family...

  Mary : Oh, nuts!

  Harriet : I beg your pardon.

  Mary : All right, only don't let it happen again.

  Harriet : This is intolerable. Charles, you sit there stuffing yourself with toast while your child insults me.

  Lord Chaunduyt : Now, Harriet. I don't think Mary really meant to...

  Mary : Oh, yes I did.

• Harriet : Charles, tell me at once. Who am I? Or what am I?

  Lord Chaunduyt : Well, my dear Harriet, for the moment you're one of the old "Bouquets." But it rather looks as though very shortly, you'll be just an old "Bucket."

• Harriet : What have you been doing? Isn't it hot yet?

  Ghost : [Trying to run a hot bath for her]  It only ta be... I know. I am..

  [mumbling] 

  Harriet : The steam's very nice, but where's the water?