"As some day it may happen that a victim must be found - I've got a little list."
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"As some day it may happen that a victim must be found - I've got a little list." |
"I have made some converts to the principle, that men and women should be coupled in matrimony without distinction of rank."
Original London Cast: George Bentham -- Original Australian Cast: Richard Lord Skinner -- Original Australian Savoy Revival Cast: Mr. W.H. Woodfield
"She will return with them, and if she finds any difficulty in making up her mind, the persuasive influence of the torture chamber will jog her memory."
Original London Cast: Mr. Denny -- Original New York Cast: John A. Muir/Fred Billington -- Original Australian Cast: Howard Vernon
"Well, dear, of course a filter is a very useful thing in a house; but still I don't quite see that it is the sort of thing that places its possessor on the very pinnacle of earthly joy."
Original London Cast: Alice May -- Original Australian Cast: Alice Dunning (Lingard) -- Original Australian Savoy Revival Cast: Mr. Nellie Stewart
"I often picture us in the long, cold, dark December evenings, sitting close to each other for warmth - thinking of all the lovely things we could afford to buy if we chose, and, at the same time, planning out our lives in a spirit of the most rigid and exaccting economy."
Original London Cast: Rosina Brandram
"I should command here - I was born to rule. But do I rule? I don't. Why? I don't know. I shall some day. Not yet. I bide my time."
Original London Cast: Rosina Brandram -- Original New York Cast: Genevieve Reynolds -- Original Australian Cast: Alice Barnett
"Life is made up of interruptions. the tortured soul, yearning for solitude, writhes under them. Oh, but my heart is a-weary! Oh, I am a cursed thing!"
Original London Cast: George Grossmith -- Original New York Cast: J. H. Ryley -- Original Australian Cast: Howard Vernon
"Ah I know too well the anguish of a heart that loves but vainly."
Original London Cast: Miss Everard -- Original Australian (authorized) Cast: Marie St. Clair
"Yes, it's quite clear that our only chance of making a lasting impression on these young ladies is to become as aesthetic as they are."
Original London Cast: Richard Temple -- Original New York Cast: W. T. Carleton -- Original Australian Cast: Signor Riccardi
"I was born in the old keep, and I've grown grey in it, and, please God, I shall die and be buried in it."
Original London Cast: Rosina Brandram -- Original Australian Cast: Miss G. Ameris
"Married to the infant son of the King of Barataria? Was I consulted? Then it was a most unpardonable liberty!"
Original London Cast: Decima Moore -- Original New York Cast: Agnes McFarland -- Original Australian Cast: Florence Young
"If long and deep-drawn signs I chance to utter, oh, heed them not, their cause must ne'er be known!"
Original London Cast: Giulia Warwick -- Original Australian Cast: Laura Wiseman -- Original Australian Savoy Revival Cast: Ada Walker
He has the famous catchphrase "what, never?"..."hardly ever!" which in it's time became so familiar that it is told that one newspaper editor forbad it to be used in his paper. "What, never?" asked one of his staff. "Well", groaned the editor, "hardly ever!"
Original London Cast: Rutland Barrington -- Original Australian Cast: J.A. South
"Red, am I? and round - and rosy! May be, for I have dissembled well!"
Original London Cast: Miss Everard -- Original Australian Cast: Marie St. Clair
"Nature never errs. To those who know the workings of your mind, your face and figure, sir, suggest a book appropriately bound."
Original London Cast: Durward Lely -- Original New York Cast: W. S. Rising -- Original Australian Cast: Mr. W. H. Woodfield
"I shall quit the country at once - and bury my sorrow in the congenial gloom of a Colonial Bishopric."
Original London Cast: Rutland Barrington -- Original Australian Cast: John Forde -- Original Australian Savoy Revival Cast: Denbigh Newton
"Let your heart be your compass, with a clear conscience for your binnacle light, and you'll sail ten knots on a bowline, clear of shoals, rocks, and quicksands!"
Original London Cast: Durward Lely -- Original New York Cast: Courtice Pounds
"From such a face and form as mine the noblest sentiments sound like the black utterances of a depraved imagination."
Original London Cast: Richard Temple -- Original Australian (authorized) Cast: Tom Rainford
"Your Majesty is surely unaware that directly Your Majesty's father came before the public he was applied for over and over again"
Original London Cast: Rosina Brandram -- Original New York Cast: Kate Talby -- Original Australian Cast: Maggie Moore
"My child, the Duke of Plaza-Toro does not follow fashions - he leads them. He always leads everybody. When he was in the army he led his regiment. He occasionally led them into action. he invariably led them out of it."
Original London Cast: Frank Wyatt -- Original New York Cast: George Temple -- Original Australian Cast: William Elton
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"Take the case of the Duke of Plaza-Toro. Why should he be made a kind of jumping Jack-in-the-box? Why should he have the very bad manners to "pull faces" at the back of the Duchess? Frank Wyatt, who created the role, would have been the last man to be guilty of such a liberty. The Duke, who is a courtier and distinctly a man of gentle birth and breeding, though for a time he may be down on his luck, would positively never do such a thing." "The Life and Reminiscences of Jessie Bond" Published 1930 |
"Rule a Grand Duchy? Why, my good girl, for ten years past I've ruled a theatrical company! A man who can do that can rule anything!"
Original London Cast: Mr. C. Kenningham
"Coming death hath made of me a true and chivalrous knight, who holds all womankind in such esteem that the oldest, and the meanest, and the worst-favoured of them is good enough for him."
Original London Cast: Courtice Pounds -- Original New York Cast: Henry Hallam -- Original Australian Cast: Mr. C. M. Leumane
"Why the officers of Household Cavalry are a very exclusive body, and do not consider any lady worthy of matrimonial consideration until she has acquired at least sixty-two years of unblemished experience in the very highest ranks of English society."
Original London Cast: Charles Kenningston -- Original Australian Cast: Charles Kenningham
"I implore you not to insist on the letter of your bond just as the cup of happiness is at my lips!"
Original London Cast: George Power -- Original New York Cast: Hugh Talbot -- Original Australian Cast: Armes Beaumont
