Darling (1965)
Laurence Harvey: Miles Brand
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Quotes
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Diana Scott : Poor Miles. You can't risk feeling anything, can you?
Miles Brand : I shall survive.
Diana Scott : Of course! As long as you remain impotent.
Miles Brand : My impotence, my darling, makes a pair with your virginity.
Diana Scott : Impotent in every way, except in bed.
Miles Brand : Don't underestimate me, my dear. I can also be very effective on the telephone.
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Miles Brand : ...a man of few words, all of them long.
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Miles Brand : How savage we are tonight. Somebody's husband has gone back to his wife?
Carlotta Hale : If he had, you'd have been there to greet him.
Miles Brand : Leftovers aren't exactly my diet, my darling.
Carlotta Hale : Oh? I thought you were always in the market?
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Diana Scott : I always feel as if there's one more corner to turn, and I'll be there.
Miles Brand : And so you will.
Diana Scott : Then there'll be another.
Miles Brand : That's the attraction of corners.
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Miles Brand : It was said of her great-grandmother that the only members of the cabinet who weren't her lovers were the ones who had reason to believe they might be her father.
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Diana Scott : Do you have parents? I can't imagine you with parents.
Miles Brand : Yes, I have. Two of them.
Diana Scott : Imagine if...
Miles Brand : What?
Diana Scott : It took three.
Miles Brand : Took three?
Diana Scott : Sexes. To make a child.
Miles Brand : Very entertaining.
Diana Scott : Everything would be different, wouldn't it, quite different, with three sexes.
Miles Brand : Haven't we got enough problems with two?
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Diana Scott : I asked you to go. Why haven't you?
Miles Brand : Because I've stayed.
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Diana Scott : Don't you possess anything of your own?
Miles Brand : Only the things I can't replace.
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Miles Brand : Miles, my love, have you ever been in love?
Diana Scott : [answering questions in the "Truth Game" at the French party as if she were Miles Brand] Yes, for as long as I can remember - with myself!
Spanish Transvestite at French Party : Olé! Tell me, Miles, if you could be anything in the world, what would you most want to be?
Diana Scott : A pimp in a royal whorehouse.
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Carlotta Hale : Still admiring yourself as much as ever, Miles?
Miles Brand : Carlotta!
Carlotta Hale : How lucky it is you're a man after your own heart.
Miles Brand : Darling.
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Lord Grant : I like your black boys, John. I suppose I can't wrap one up and take him home?
John : I wouldn't advise you to try.
Miles Brand : They're all numbered Alex and I wouldn't try and change your luck, if I were you.
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Miles Brand : They've got something for us upstairs. Crisps and Pepsi-Cola.
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Diana Scott : [looking at a statue] What's this supposed to be?
Miles Brand : Oh, its known for many in the group as three couples taking their pleasures with a fourth looking on.
Diana Scott : Charming.
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Diana Scott : I wish you'd open up.
Miles Brand : I can't do that.
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Billie Castiglione : Oh, Miles, I love you. You're such a
[whispers in Miles ear]
Miles Brand : Oh, Billie, if I didn't know you were a man, I'd be very shocked. Diana, darling, I want you to meet Billie Castiglione. He's one of the best sculptresses in Paris. He's dying to do your bust.
Billie Castiglione : I'm going to kill that man, I am. You've got a beautiful head. Wonderful bones. Truly!
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Miles Brand : She's got a sort of Aryan quality. I think she'll go down extremely well in Germany.
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Miles Brand : Very well, then, we're all agreed. Diana Scott, here and after, known as the "Happiness Girl."
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Miles Brand : I thought you'd gone too? You bastard! You really are, aren't you, a bastard.
Diana Scott : Would you like some tea?
Miles Brand : Tea?
Miles Brand : To calm you down. You seem a bit hysterical.
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Diana Scott : Who was she, Miles?
Miles Brand : Put away your Penguin Freud, Diana.
Diana Scott : Who was she?
Miles Brand : And your crystal ball.