The Shining Hour (1938)

Robert Young: David Linden

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• Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden : I, uh, wish Judy had been able to ride with us. I like her.

  David Linden : She adores you.

  Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden : I detest women as a rule. I know too much about them.

• Henry Linden : [walking into the library and turning on the lights to discover a couple kissing on a couch]  Bookworms.

  David Linden : Friends of yours?

  Henry Linden : Friends of each other, I hope.

• David Linden : Stop talking about Henry and you and your rotten little house!

• Hannah Linden : Coffee, David?

  David Linden : I don't want any.

  Hannah Linden : You should. You've had no sleep.

  David Linden : I'm quite aware of that, Hannah. I don't want any coffee. I tell ya I don't want any!

  Hannah Linden : David!

  David Linden : Oh stop Daviding me. Minding other people's business. That's what's wrong with you, you haven't enough of your own. Well I'll give you some!

  [picks coffee cup up and smashes it on the floor] 

  David Linden : There, get busy with that. Lots of little pieces, Hannah, just for you. Try to put them together again. We'll all be busy doing that!

• David Linden : Now you're just being cheap.

  Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden : I am rather cheap. Have you only just realised it?

• Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden : You're a funny kind of farmer, David. Do you like it?

  David Linden : [as he plays the piano]  Some of the time.

  Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden : And the rest of the time?

  David Linden : I hate it.

  [stops playing piano] 

  David Linden : But I've been that way always about everything. I want what I haven't got, and I'm bored with what I have. But I've stopped wondering about it. I just call myself a neurotic.

  [chuckles] 

• Henry Linden : What in the name of Linden brings you here?

  David Linden : The name of Linden, Henry.