The Line of Beauty

Nick Guest:
I just think he's the most beautiful man I've ever met.

Catherine Fedden:
Darling, you don't fall in love with somebody *because* they're beautiful. People are lovely *because* we love them, not the other way round.

Catherine Fedden:
You're really very rich, aren't you, Sir Maurice?

Sir Maurice Tipper:
Yes. I am.

Catherine Fedden:
How much have you got?

Sally Tipper:
Oh, my dear, what a question. You can never exactly say, can you? It goes up so fast. All the time these days.

Catherine Fedden:
Well, roughly.

Sir Maurice Tipper:
Roughly... a-hundred-and-fifty million.

Catherine Fedden:
A-hundred-and-fifty million pounds?

Sir Maurice Tipper:
Give or take a few million, yes.

Catherine Fedden:
I noticed you gave some money to the appeal at Podier Church.

Sally Tipper:
We give to endless appeals and churches.

Catherine Fedden:
How much did you give?

Sir Maurice Tipper:
I don't recall exactly.

Catherine Fedden:
You gave five francs. That's about 50p. *That's* how much you gave.

Gerald Fedden:
[arriving] What's all this about?

Sir Maurice Tipper:
This young lady was giving me some criticism. Apparently I'm rather mean.

Catherine Fedden:
Oh, I didn't say that.

Sally Tipper:
You certainly implied it.

Catherine Fedden:
All right, I did. And if I was in charge I think I should stop people from being able to have a-hundred-and-fifty million pounds.

Gerald Fedden:
Just as well you're not, then, Puss.

Sally Tipper:
It's sort of sex-mad, isn't it, the world we live in.

Antoine "Wani" Ouradi:
[smiling] I know.

Nick Guest:
Prime Minister, would you like to dance?

Mrs. Thatcher:
Do you know, I would like that very much.

Nick Guest:
I'm not at all sure they could manage without me.

Antoine "Wani" Ouradi:
Christ they can't! Don't kid yourself, Nick. Haven't you ever thought it's the other way around?

[first lines]

Nick Guest:
Wow. Is this really where you live?

Toby Fedden:
Yep, well, you know, where my parents live. What's the matter, something wrong with it?

Nick Guest:
No, it's... it's lovely.

Toby Fedden:
Come on, then.

[last lines]

Elena:
I think to myself that first day, I think, "That one's 'sciocco'." Oh, you know, he's all very nice, but he's... mm...

[Elena holds two fingers up to her head]

Nick Guest:
"Pazzo"? Crazy?

Elena:
No. "He's no good."

Sally Tipper:
They're going to have to learn, aren't they? The homosexuals, I mean.

Nick Guest:
Actually, we are learning to be safe.

[silence]

Nick Guest:
These days we use protection, and there are other things one can do: oral sex, for example, is much less dangerous.

Sally Tipper:
...Kissing, you mean?