Cluny Brown (1946)

Ernest Cossart: Syrette

Quotes 

• Sir Henry Carmel : Well, she needn't have dropped the platter and insulted my friend. What was it she said to you?

  Syrette : I remember very well, sir. It was, if I may take the liberty of repeating it, 'Nuts to the squirrels.'

  Sir Henry Carmel : Doesn't make sense!

  Adam Belinski : No, it doesn't. It should be 'Squirrels to the nuts.' But I have an open mind, and if someone says to me 'Nuts to the squirrels,' I accept it. You may be inclined to say that to me yourself some day, when you know me better - and I'm not so sure that you will include the 'squirrels.'

  Sir Henry Carmel : [shaking his head]  That's much too deep for me.

• Syrette : Shall I leave, Mrs. Maile?

  Mrs. Maile : Please don't, Mr. Syrette. I'd appreciate your opinion in the matter.

  Syrette : And may I say, I agree with you completely, Mrs. Maile?

  Mrs. Maile : I knew you would, Mr. Syrette.

• Syrette : [to Mrs. Maile]  What do you expect? Maid without references, and a foreigner who isn't even in the diplomatic service.

• Syrette : I hesitated to tell you, but now I believe I should. The foreign gentleman rose at dinner and addressed me directly.

  Mrs. Maile : Oh, no!

  Syrette : Yes, Mrs. Maile. Sir Henry and Lady Carmel's guest spoke to me as an equal.

• Syrette : I don't say she clipped the Cupid's wing on the punchbowl deliberately, but it's clipped, Mrs. Maile. And what about the masters hunting trophies? I shall never forget the day she dusted the left eye out of Sir Henry's moose.