The Grass Is Greener (1960)

Jean Simmons: Hattie Durant

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• Victor Rhyall : Astonishing, isn't it? Here's a reasonable, decent sort of man who'd no more think of stealing my cuff links than he would of taking my umbrella. Yet he'll pay half a crown at the door, walk into my house, and without disturbing his conscience in anyway, calmly endeavor to steal my wife.

  Hattie Durant : By the same token, Hilary wouldn't cheat at cards. There's no honor where there's *sex*.

  Victor Rhyall : You are happy to say.

• Hattie Durant : Such a pity. Our love for each other is founded on mutual distrust.

• Victor Rhyall : It was curiousity, wasn't it? You wanted to see how I reacted to my wife falling in love with another man.

  Hattie Durant : He's not just another man, darling. He's a millionaire!

• Hattie Durant : Well, good luck.

  Victor Rhyall : Well you say that as if you think I'm going to need it.

  Hattie Durant : Hmm, don't we all? Can't do a blasted thing without good luck. You need it from the moment you get out of bed in the morning, til the moment you get back in at night. Particularly when you get back in again at night.

  Victor Rhyall : You are a wanton.

  Hattie Durant : What else?

• Hattie Durant : What did Shakespeare say? A cuckoo then on every tree mocks married men.

  Victor Rhyall : Yes. Yes. Yes.

• Victor Rhyall : I ought to shoot him.

  Hattie Durant : Oh, I do think we should try and avoid bloodshed, darling. It's a little old-fashioned.

  Victor Rhyall : Well, it's time it was brought up to date.

• Victor Rhyall : The fundamental difference between men and women, is that what's sauce for the goose is *not* sauce for the gander. That's why women wear wedding rings and men don't.

  Hattie Durant : First proud, now arrogant. And exceedingly immoral.

  Victor Rhyall : Oh, come, come.

• Hattie Durant : If you give me some gin, I'll give you some advice. I don't believe in something for nothing.

• Victor Rhyall : I take it you're staying the weekend. Did you bring a bag?

  Hattie Durant : When you're addressing me, I prefer the word suitcase.

• Hattie Durant : I'd like a good dinner with a bottle of something very expensive, and preferably fizzy.

• Hattie Durant : I have a horrible feeling you're plotting something not to do with me. Which couldn't be more disappointing.

• Hattie Durant : From a woman's point of view, the amount of time that men spend talking about *fish* is quite humiliating.

• Hilary Rhyall : I don't trust Victor when he's genial.

  Hattie Durant : I don't trust him, period.

• Hattie Durant : [referring to the unknown contents inside a mysterious suitcase]  You couldn't really get a body in there, could you? I mean not unless it was cut up, of course.

  Victor Rhyall : Now Hattie, don't be disgusting.

  Hattie Durant : Oh, alright then, dismembered.

  Victor Rhyall : Well, that's even worse.

  Hattie Durant : I expect that's why they always use it in the newspapers.

• Hilary Rhyall : I can give no guarantee of what I'm going to do or how I'm going to behave. Do you find that shocking?

  Hattie Durant : Well, coming from you I do, rather. Ah, surprising anyway. Of course, it's the sort of feeling I've been having ever since I was about 11.