Year of the Comet (1992)

Tim Bentinck: Richard Harwood

Quotes 

• [Sir Mason rejects Margaret's offer to send her out on a business trip. Margaret and Richard start bickering] 

  Margaret Harwood : [to Richard]  You are a person of very little quality.

  Sir Mason Harwood : Oh, why do you both bicker so much?

  Margaret Harwood : Because we're both jealous. Richard is jealous of everyone who is better than him, which includes every living creature. I'm jealous because I really care about wine. I love it! Yet I'm treated like a servant while he gets every opportunity that comes along!

  Sir Mason Harwood : You're not ready to be sent out yet, Margaret. When you are, naturally being totally fair, I'll send you. Remember, you are still a child.

  Margaret Harwood : Father, I'm 28 years old.

  Richard Harwood : Well, this desk is 112 years old. We're not sending it out to catalog wine!

  Sir Mason Harwood : Now, that's quite enough of that! Just be patient, your opportunity will come in due time.

  Margaret Harwood : So it's now, then?

  Sir Mason Harwood : When you're *ready,* dear!

  Margaret Harwood : That's what I thought you'd say.

  Margaret Harwood : [Puts a letter on the desk]  This is my resignation.

  Richard Harwood : [Picks up the letter and starts to read it]  Ooh, this *is* good news!

  Sir Mason Harwood : When your mother left, and decided to raise you in America, I accepted it. It was a decision I always suspected would haunt me. But this...

  [takes the letter from Richard and holds it up] 

  Sir Mason Harwood : You stop it now. Or I shall become, I promise you, very upset.

  [holds the letter out to Margaret, which she does not take back] 

  Sir Mason Harwood : I don't enjoy making threats very well.

  Margaret Harwood : Neither do I. Goodbye.

  [turns and walks out] 

  Sir Mason Harwood : [throws the letter on the desk]  Damn! Truly, truly, Damn!

  Richard Harwood : Father, we should celebrate her going!

  Sir Mason Harwood : Celebrate? She knows more about wine already than you'll ever learn, and she willingly does the work of four!

  Richard Harwood : But Harwood has never been represented by a *woman*!

  Sir Mason Harwood : Yes, well that's something we should consider changing.