Holy Matrimony (1943)

Monty Woolley: Priam Farll

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• Henry Leek : I'm afraid, sir, I have a confession or two to make.

  Priam Farll : Don't be a fool. Never make a confession until you actually feel rigor mortis setting in. You might recover.

  Henry Leek : No, this time I'm done for. I know.

  Priam Farll : Nevertheless, I don't want to hear it. Why, I haven't the slightest doubt that you are a first-rate scoundrel at heart. If you don't mind my saying so, you're such a shady-looking individual.

• Dr. Caswell : Oh, didn't I read somewhere where he ran away from England some years ago to marry a Fiji witch or something?

  Priam Farll : It was far more likely sir, that he ran away from England years ago to escape your wife.

  Dr. Caswell : Great Scott, did he know her?

  Priam Farll : I speak, of course, sir, in hyperbole.

• Mourner : I say, governor, who's being buried?

  Priam Farll : Me.

  Mourner : Funny, eh?

• Priam Farll : [as Henry Leek]  Leek, sir, Henry Wadsworth Leek.

• Priam Farll : [another time, as Henry Leek]  Leek, sir, Henry Greenleaf Leek

• Priam Farll : Now, how on earth could a brewery have financial trouble? Look at the beer people drink - buckets of it. Why, I myself must have put away several hundred thousand gallons of it.

  Alice Chalice : That's what father used to say. Put your faith in an Englishman's thirst is as gold in the bank, he says.

• Priam Farll : Why don't you believe that I was married to that woman?

  Alice Chalice : I may not know everything about you, but I do know one thing; you have never been married before.