- Lizzie: Gilbert, Jock's made a wager with Diana. He says that if you say more than two words, he'll buy her a fur coat.
- Gilbert Colvile: [vacantly] Really?
- [he walks away]
- Sir Jock Delves Broughton: These bankers are terrible, Abdullah.
- Abdullah, Broughton's Servant: Yes, Bwana.
- Sir Jock Delves Broughton: When it's dry they offer you no end of umbrellas; as soon as it starts raining they want them back.
- Sir Jock Delves Broughton: His sporting days are over. His little light is out. What used to be his sex appeal is now his water spout!
- Josslyn Hay: Earl of Erroll: Do you know what happens to a woman once she loses her looks?
- Lady Diana Broughton: No. What?
- Josslyn Hay: Earl of Erroll: Nothing.
- Lady Diana Broughton: [slurping from her champagne glass] Here's to lions, tigers and rich men.
- Hugh: There's no tigers in Africa.
- Lady Diana Broughton: What is there ?
- Hugh: Gorillas, baboons, zebras... .
- Lady Diana Broughton: [draining her glass] Oh ! here's to respectability then.
- Hugh: You don't think he's rather... old?
- Lady Diana Broughton: I like older men. They have more money.
- Sir Jock Delves Broughton: I'm not going to Africa without capital.
- Land Agent: As your agent, it isn't my business, of course, to advise you financially.
- Sir Jock Delves Broughton: Then don't.
- Land Agent: Frankly, Sir Delves, the estates are a reliable source of income, particularly at this time. And I know Courtney agrees with me. To sell them wouldn't be exactly prudent.
- Sir Jock Delves Broughton: Who's Courtney?
- Land Agent: Your accountant, sir.
- Hugh: My mother married for a title, and look what happened to her.
- Lady Diana Broughton: I'm not your mother, thank God.
- Hugh: Well, it closes most of your options, that's all.
- Lady Diana Broughton: You're a man. You like wars. I don't.
- Lady Diana Broughton: [toasting] Here's to lions, tigers and rich men.
- Hugh: There're no tigers in Africa.
- Lady Diana Broughton: Aren't they? What are there, then?
- Hugh: Um, ostriches, baboons, hyenas.
- Lady Diana Broughton: Well, here's to all of them. And respectability, at last.
- Lady Diana Broughton: Is he really such a hopeless philanderer?
- Lady June Carberry: Gladys says he can't get on with women, so he gets off with them! You know Nancy Wirewater? Well, they say he rogered her on the billiard table at Norfolk.
- Lady Diana Broughton: You've made a conquest, Joss. Now I'm going back to my husband.
- Josslyn Hay: Earl of Erroll: And his money.
- Club Member: Any tips for tomorrow, Jock?
- Sir Jock Delves Broughton: Erroll's the man to ask.
- Club Member: Trouble with this place is there aren't any decent widows.
- Sir Jock Delves Broughton: Perhaps we should have a few shipped out from England.
- Club Member: War Office wouldn't wear it.
- Soames: You didn't promise her any money, did you?
- Sir Jock Delves Broughton: Five thousand a year for the next seven years.
- Soames: Good Lord. I think you've a bit of a chump.
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