Lady L (1965)

Cecil Parker: Sir Percy

Quotes 

• Louise : The more she wants to win, the more she pretends she doesn't mind losing. That's England, too.

  Sir Percy : Ah, you wicked foreigner. You discovered one of our best kept secrets.

• Sir Percy : I have no time for those who pretend to dislike appearances. Society couldn't exist without them.

• Louise : My people came to Paris when I was a baby. They were very poor. I worked from my earliest youth delivering laundry, much of it to a house.

  Sir Percy : Laundry is usually delivered to houses, if I'm not mistaken.

  Louise : This was not so much a house - as a *house*.

  Sir Percy : I don't follow you?

  Louise : A house full of girls or all shapes and sizes and of every nationality.

  Sir Percy : Oh, I see. A kind of finishing school.

  Louise : Oh, is that what they call them in England?

• Sir Percy : Great news. My publisher is ecstatic. He wants me to start on your biography without delay. "Lady L.: The Portrait of a Very Great Lady" is the title already chosen for the work.