Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)

Christopher Guest: Lord Cromer

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Quotes 

• Lord Cromer : Now what about, forgive me, the foliage?

  Laura Henderson : Foliage?

  Lord Cromer : You know, beneath the...

  Laura Henderson : Beneath what? Try the Brie.

  Lord Cromer : Thank you. Beneath the...

  Laura Henderson : I had it flown in from France.

  Lord Cromer : Excellent. The foliage beneath the...

  Laura Henderson : My husband was very fond of it.

  Lord Cromer : Of what?

  Laura Henderson : This particular cheese.

  Lord Cromer : My dear, I'm attempting to address the disagreeable and somewhat sordid topic of the pudendum.

  Laura Henderson : What on earth is that?

  Lord Cromer : Good heavens, woman!

  Laura Henderson : Do have some more wine.

  Lord Cromer : The female part.

  Laura Henderson : Oh, the pussy!

  Lord Cromer : [Gasps] 

  Laura Henderson : Why didn't you say?

  Lord Cromer : I had not expected you, of all people, to use such language.

  Laura Henderson : That word was rather popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Not everyone speaks Latin, you know.

  Lord Cromer : Then I'd prefer you refer to it as 'the midlands'.

  Laura Henderson : Oh dear, you men do get into such a state about 'the midlands', don't you? Well you needn't worry. Our lighting will be so subtle; the disputed area will be barely visible.

  [as Lord Cromer drinks his wine] 

  Laura Henderson : And anyway, we'll have a barber.

  Lord Cromer : [spits out wine and Mrs Henderson laughs] 

• Laura Henderson : Tommy, you're so literal. You're thinking bosoms, but I'm thinking breasts.

  Lord Cromer : And what, my dear, is the difference?

  Laura Henderson : Ah, the difference is in your soul.

• Lord Cromer : I have learned in these many years of dealing with artists to detest imagination.

• Lord Cromer : Our intelligence tells me that Germany is going to bomb London.

  Laura Henderson : *My* intelligence tells me that.