The Skin Game (1931)

C.V. France: Mr. Hillcrist

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  Mr. Hillcrist : What is it that gets loose when you start a fight, and makes you what you think you're not? Begin as you may, it ends in this skin game! Skin game! When we began this fight, we'd clean hands. Are they clean now? What's gentility worth if it can't stand fire?

• Mr. Hillcrist : I never could hate, properly. Its a confounded nuisance!

• Jill : Dawker's simply oozing triumph. I don't trust him, Do-Do. He's too - not pugilistic, but the other, the other one with a pug. Pugnacious!

  Mr. Hillcrist : He is, rather.

  Jill : I'm sure he would care a tuppence if... Chloe committed suicide.

  Mr. Hillcrist : Nonsense, nonsense.

• Mr. Hillcrist : It's all unspeakably sad. Deception's horribly against the grain.

• Mr. Hillcrist : I'm terribly sorry that our quarrel should have brought this about.

  Charles Hornblower : Yes. You smashed my life.