Other Titles • The Draughtsman's Contract • Der Kontrakt des Zeichners (1983)
Quotes from The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
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Mrs. Talmann: Your inventory, Louis, is unlimited. Like your long, clean, white breeches, there is nothing of substance in either of them.
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Mr. Neville: You must forgive my curiosity, madam, and open your knees.
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Mrs. Talmann: She does not fret father, or if she does you well know the cause is your indifference - a house, a garden, a horse, a wife the preferential order.
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Mrs. Talmann: When your speech is as coarse as your face, Louis, then you sound as impotent by day as you perform by night.
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[first lines] Mr. Noyes: ...was a man who spent more time with his gardener than his wife.
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Mrs. Talmann: He was an orphan, Mr. Neville, and needed to be looked after. Mr. Neville: An orphan! Mr. Neville: Because his mother became a Catholic?
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[to his nephew Augustus] Mr. Talmann: Chasing sheep is a tiresome habit best left to shepherds.
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Mr. Neville: Why doesn't your husband have the moat cleaned out? Mrs. Herbert: He doesn't like to see the fish.
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Mr. Neville: Four garments and a ladder do not lead us to a corpse. Mrs. Talmann: Mr. Neville, I said nothing about a corpse.
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[pretending to accuse Mr. Neville of murder] Mr. Talmann: More than a witness, Mr. Neville - an accessory to misadventure.
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Mrs. Talmann: I will stay dressed, Mr. Neville; you will not.
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Mrs. Talmann: Your innocence, Mr. Neville, is always sinister.
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Mr. Noyes: Madam, you are disingenuous beyond words.
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[to her husband, Louis Talmann] Mrs. Talmann: Your speech, Louis, is becoming meteorological.
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[feigning anger] Mrs. Herbert: Is losing a husband a humiliation, Mr. Neville?
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Mr. Neville: Well, that was ingenious. Mrs. Talmann: Since when has adultery been ingenious? You are ridiculous, Mr. Neville.
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Mrs. Herbert: I used to pee like a horse. Mrs. Herbert: I still do.
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