Of Human Bondage (1934)

Leslie Howard: Philip

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• Mildred Rogers : Anything you want?

  Philip Carey : Yes, if you don't mind I'd like to talk to you. Um... filthy weather, isn't it?

  Mildred Rogers : Makes no difference to me. I have to be here all day.

  Philip Carey : Don't talk like that. I only wanted to say something pleasant.

  Mildred Rogers : Well, say it.

  Philip Carey : You know you have a lovely smile. You should try using it more often.

  Mildred Rogers : Oh, don't go spoofing me. A girl who works hard all day like I do. I don't have much reason to smile.

  Philip Carey : Perhaps I could find a reason. Would you let me try?

• Thorpe Athelny : I was married to a lady once. Good heavens! Never marry a lady, my boy.

  Philip Carey : Oh really? Why?

  Thorpe Athelny : Because a lady has a point of view, a personality and an individuality, all to devil you with!

• Philip Carey : I thought you were never coming.

  Mildred Rogers : Ooh, like that. After keeping me waiting. I almost went home.

  Philip Carey : I was in the second class waiting room. I thought you said you'd be there.

  Mildred Rogers : No, I said "is it likely I would sit in the second class if I could sit in the first?" For a gentleman of brains you don't use them, do ya?

  Philip Carey : Perhaps not. Anyway you're here, so it's alright, isn't it?

  Mildred Rogers : You certainly do make a girl feel important to ya.

• [last lines] 

  Sally Athelny : Philip, you're free.

  Philip Carey : Yes, but suddenly... suddenly there's nowhere to go.

  Cabbie at End : Taxi, sir?

  Philip Carey : No thanks. No.

  [to Sally] 

  Philip Carey : I had to be free to realize that. I had to be free to understand that all those years that I'd dreamed of escape, it was because I was limping through life.

  Cabbie at End : Taxi, sir?

  Philip Carey : No thank you!

  [continuing] 

  Philip Carey : And because I was bound up with a person who was incredible to me. That's all over. I'm not limping anymore. My life's all right.

  Sally Athelny : Then why don't you go?

  Philip Carey : Because everything that's beautiful to me is... is right here. Won't you please marry me, Sally?

  Sally Athelny : If you like.

  Philip Carey : But don't you want to?

  Sally Athelny : Well, there's no one else I'd marry.

  [Philip goes to kiss her, but stops when a man on the street stares at them] 

  Cabbie at End : How about a taxi, sir?

  Philip Carey : What?

  Cabbie at End : How about a taxi?

  Philip Carey : Yes!

  [Philip and Sally get in the cab and kiss] 

• Thorpe Athelny : I don't think women ought to sit down at table with men.

  Philip Carey : Oh! Don't you? Why not?

  Thorpe Athelny : It ruins conversation. I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads. And women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

  Philip Carey : You sound like the old voice of England.

  Thorpe Athelny : I am, sir. And this is fine old Yorkshire pudding that gives me the strength to carry on.

• Philip Carey : Norah, I've got something strange to tell you. You've been so good to me, it only makes it harder.

  Norah : Philip, what's wrong?

  Philip Carey : I'm sorry, it... it's just over.

  Norah : You mean you don't care for me anymore?

  Philip Carey : I'm afraid so.

  Norah : What have I done?

  Philip Carey : Nothing. You've been wonderful to me. It's just that I...

  [he puts his head in his hands] 

  Norah : 'Course I knew you never loved me as much as I love you.

  Philip Carey : Yes, I'm afraid that's usually the case. There's usually one who loves, and one who *is* loved.

  Norah : Oh, it's always the same. If you want a man to be nice to you, you have to be rotten to him. If you treat a man honestly, you... Philip, there's someone else.

  Philip Carey : Yes.

  Norah : Who is she?

  Philip Carey : Mildred. She's come back.

  Norah : After all she's done. How could you?

  Philip Carey : That's what I'd like to know.

  Norah : It's just as though you were bound to her in some way.

  Philip Carey : Yes.

  Norah : As I am to you. As she was to Miller.

  Philip Carey : As every human being is, to something or other.