The Admirable Crichton

Lady Brocklehurst:
George... Listen when anyone begins to answer with "The fact is... "

Brocklehurst:
But why, mother?

Lady Brocklehurst:
Because that is, usually, the beginning of a lie.

Bill Crichton:
One can't recapture a dream. Don't spoil it by trying to.

Lord Loam:
They'll get used to the idea.

Bill Crichton:
I sincerely hope not, my lord.

Lord Loam:
None of that, now. Surely you don't object to meeting me as man-to-man. Haven't I always treated you as a human being?

Bill Crichton:
No, certainly not, my lord. Your treatment of me has always been as it should be.

Lord Loam:
That's enough. This afternoon at 4 o'clock, you will be my equal. I'll soon show you whether you are my equal or not.

Bill Crichton:
Oh...

Lord Loam:
You do as you are told!

Lady Mary:
Father! He said Catherine has been arrested!

Lord Loam:
Great Scot! Good heavens, I don't believe it! My daughter arrested as a suffragette! That's what comes of all this darned equality!

Lady Mary:
Are you ambitious?

Bill Crichton:
Ambitious? For what?

Lady Mary:
To better yourself.

Bill Crichton:
My lady! I am the son of a butler and a lady's maid. The happiest of all combinations. To me the most beautiful thing in the world is a haughty English aristocratic home with everyone kept in his place.

Lady Mary:
That's not how my father would have it.

Bill Crichton:
Indeed, he would not, my lady. He would have equality for all. But what good would that do? Any satisfaction I might derive out of being your equal would be ruined by the footman being equal to me.

Lady Mary:
Why don't you come deer hunting with me sometime?

Bill Crichton:
Ooh! I might find myself chasing the wrong dear.