The Ghoul (1933)

Ralph Richardson: Nigel Hartley

Quotes 

• Nigel Hartley : I'm sorry there should be this sort of atmosphere. After all, we're only ships that pass in the night.

  Broughton : Hmmm. Do you want a drink, or will you pass now?

  Aga Ben Dragore : [as the romantic Kaney is making tea for the household]  Six cups? That's just... just four too many.

  [Grabbing her hand] 

  Aga Ben Dragore : Eh?

  Kaney : Tell me about Egypt. Have you ever seen a shiek?

  Aga Ben Dragore : [Imperiously folding his arms a la Valentino]  I am one!

  Kaney : [Shocked]  What?

• Nigel Hartley : I happened to be staying in the neighborhood, and hearing of your master's illness I took the liberty of calling. How is he tonight?

  Laing : He'll never see the morning.

  Nigel Hartley : He has not asked for anyone of my cloth?

  Laing : Nor will he. He's set in his ways, and they are the ways of the heathen.

  Nigel Hartley : I know he won't see the rector, but though I'm a comparative stranger, I don't like to leave a man to die like that.

  Laing : He'll die in his own fashion as he has lived.

  Nigel Hartley : Still, sometimes at the end...

  Laing : Not him! He's stubborn and unbending and will be so at the throne itself!

• Nigel Hartley : Not a very courageous person, our foreign friend.

  Kaney : You think he's run away? Absurd! I'd like to see you riding your bicycle with a Circassian slave, lovely as sin, across the handlebars!