Half Moon Street (1986)
Keith Buckley: Hugo Van Arkady
Quotes
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Lady Newhouse : China, now that really scares me. Nine hundred million people breeding like rabbits.
Dr. Lauren Slaughter : You're wrong, Lady Newhouse.
Lady Newhouse : What do you mean, I'm wrong?
Dr. Lauren Slaughter : There are over a billion now. That's official.
Hugo Van Arkady : You're both wrong. They are only two people in China. And I know both of them.
Dr. Lauren Slaughter : Two people in China? I love it. OK, if there are two people in China, how many are there in the world?
Hugo Van Arkady : There are five thousand people in the world. That's it, five thousand.
Dr. Lauren Slaughter : And I suppose, Mr. Van Arkady, that you've met them all.
[the other dinner guests laugh]
Julian Shuttle : Five thousand? That's all that counts? What about the starving millions?
Dinner guest : A million isn't a number in any real sense.
Hugo Van Arkady : There's murder in nature. Millions are dying right now. Starved, bombed, in camps. Nobody gives a damn. You may deplore it, but it's a fact.
Dr. Lauren Slaughter : Those five thousand, who are they? How many of them are British?
Hugo Van Arkady : Forty five.
Dr. Lauren Slaughter : German?
Hugo Van Arkady : Sixty.
Dr. Lauren Slaughter : African?
Hugo Van Arkady : None. And more Arabs than you might think, but they're all here in London.
Dr. Lauren Slaughter : I suppose the rest are American. And naturally, Mr. Van Arkady, you're one of the five thousand.
Hugo Van Arkady : Bien entendu.
Dr. Lauren Slaughter : Tell me, how many are women?
Hugo Van Arkady : Interested, aren't we?
Dr. Lauren Slaughter : Very.
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Lady Newhouse : Well, since we're on the subject of women, shall we go and have our coffee?
Hugo Van Arkady : I'm going to miss you.
Dr. Lauren Slaughter : I'm not going anywhere.
Hugo Van Arkady : You don't understand, you're being summoned. Ladies to the loo and baby talk whilst we men pass the port and smoke cigars.
Dr. Lauren Slaughter : That sucks.
Hugo Van Arkady : That's London, my dear.
