On Approval (1944)

Clive Brook: George, 10th Duke of Bristol

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• George, 10th Duke of Bristol : She's not crying because I said she was forty-one. She's crying because she is forty-one.

• George, 10th Duke of Bristol : You needn't try to lock your door, Maria. Only the rain will want to come in.

• Maria Wislack : [rushing into George's room to wake him]  George! George!

  George, 10th Duke of Bristol : [sleepily]  How do you do?

  Maria Wislack : There's a man in my room!

  George, 10th Duke of Bristol : Why?

• George, 10th Duke of Bristol : [affectionately]  There is only one woman in the world I would ask to be the Duchess of Bristol.

  Helen Hale : That's very interesting.

  George, 10th Duke of Bristol : If you ask me who she is, I will tell you.

  Helen Hale : [lovingly]  Who is she George?

  George, 10th Duke of Bristol : You, Helen.

  Helen Hale : I'm very touched and very flattered.

  George, 10th Duke of Bristol : And I am very happy.

  [George leans in to give Helen a kiss, when Helen tilts her head at the last minute to avoid it being a kiss on the lips] 

  George, 10th Duke of Bristol : Ahh.

  Helen Hale : Thank you, George. I suppose there's only one woman in this world who'd refuse to be the Duchess of Bristol, and if you ask me who she is...

  George, 10th Duke of Bristol : Who is she then?

  Helen Hale : Me, George dear.

  George, 10th Duke of Bristol : Do I hear correctly?

  Helen Hale : You're hearing perfect.

  George, 10th Duke of Bristol : You refuse to be the Duchess of Bristol?

  Helen Hale : I do.

  George, 10th Duke of Bristol : May I ask why?

  Helen Hale : Only because you happen to be the Duke.

• George, 10th Duke of Bristol : Did you know her late husband, Arthur Wislack?

  Richard Halton : Did I know him? Did I watch him with murder in my heart? Treating that divine creature with cruelty and neglect, and eventually die of drink.

  George, 10th Duke of Bristol : He hated drink.

  Richard Halton : Then why did he?

  George, 10th Duke of Bristol : He chose it as the most agreeable way of being unconscious while waiting his release.