The Best House in London (1969)
David Hemmings: Walter Leybourne, Benjamin Oakes
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Quotes
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Walter Leybourne : Any success with father?
Babette : No success, cheri. No success of - any kind. Oh, Walter. Mon amour.
Walter Leybourne : Kiss my fishy lips.
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Walter Leybourne : Babette, that's a brilliant idea.
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Sylvester Wall : Please, tell me about the little milliner.
Walter Leybourne : Ah, the little milliner. Not a day over 16.
Sylvester Wall : Paint details.
Walter Leybourne : A desert of virginity - aches within the hotness of her life.
Sylvester Wall : Ahh. Buxom?
Walter Leybourne : To the ankles!
Sylvester Wall : Hot natured?
Walter Leybourne : She pants at the unbuttoning of my tobacco pouch.
Sylvester Wall : And I can - I can...
Walter Leybourne : Yes. You can watch me.
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Babette : I shall need more virgins for the King Solomon Room.
Walter Leybourne : A further eight arrive Thursday.
Babette : Will they be young?
Walter Leybourne : Was there ever a demand for old virgins?
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Babette : The Sultan Room!
Walter Leybourne : Mmm. Goes with tastes inclined towards the plural.
Babette : It sleeps eight.
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Walter Leybourne : We'll have the finest house in Europe. I'll test every girl, personally.
Babette : It's so wonderful to have something to do together.
Walter Leybourne : We'll call it the Libertine Club: Temple of Refined Perversity, Emporium of Excess.
[spanks Babette's bottom]
Walter Leybourne : No itch will be left uncatered for. England - I'll fan your embers.
Babette : Fan mine, again.
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Josephine Pacefoot : That's eight girls now. First, Molly. Then, Lilly, Anais, Prudence, Emily, Charlotte, Arabella, and dear Phoebe. They've just vanished.
Benjamin Oakes : And you can't put them *all* down to Jack the Ripper.
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Benjamin Oakes : Miss Pacefoot, you can't have dealings with an opium plantation.
Josephine Pacefoot : Why not?
Benjamin Oakes : Because, it's - commerce. Trade.
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Josephine Pacefoot : Flora, dear, we are not what you feared us to be.
Benjamin Oakes : We are going to take you to a place where you'll be taken care of and given work.
Josephine Pacefoot : And chastity will be preserved.
Flora : Bleedin' 'ell!
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Benjamin Oakes : Miss Pacefoot, it has been proved, scientifically proved, that prolonged arithmetic is too severe for the female brain.
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Walter Leybourne : Wake up! You drink-sodden cur.
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Babette : You think that just taking her out to dinner will make her marry you?
Walter Leybourne : With what I serve for dessert.
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Benjamin Oakes : Club? This is nothing but a common bordello.
Babette : Oh, no. A most uncommon one.
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Walter Leybourne : It requires some expertness and practice for a gentleman with a mustache to take jelly in an inoffensive manner.
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Walter Leybourne : Now, forgive me. I shall print kisses on your knees. On the backs of your knees. What has to be done, has to be done!