The Draughtsman's Contract Quotes

The Draughtsman's Contract is a television show that first aired in 1970 . The Draughtsman's Contract stopped airing in 1970.

It features David Payne as producer, Michael Nyman in charge of musical score, and Curtis Clark as head of cinematography.

The Draughtsman's Contract is recorded in English language and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of The Draughtsman's Contract is 104 minutes long. The Draughtsman's Contract is distributed by Curzon Artificial Eye.

The cast includes: Anthony Higgins as Mr. Neville, Anne-Louise Lambert as Mrs. Talmann, Neil Cunningham as Mr. Noyes, Anne-Louise Lambert as Mr. Talmann, Lynda La Plante as Mrs. Clement, and David Gant as Mr. Seymour.

The Draughtsman's Contract Quotes

Anne-Louise Lambert as Mr. Talmann

• (Anne-Louise Lambert) "Chasing sheep is a tiresome habit best left to shepherds."

• (Anne-Louise Lambert) "Your inventory, Louis, is unlimited. Like your long, clean, white breeches, there is nothing of substance in either of them."

• (Anne-Louise Lambert) "She does not fret father, or if she does you well know the cause is your indifference; a house, a garden, a horse, a wife the preferential order."

• (Anne-Louise Lambert) "Your speech, Louis, is becoming meteorological."

• (Anne-Louise Lambert) "I will stay dressed, Mr. Neville; you will not."

• (Anne-Louise Lambert) "More than a witness, Mr. Neville; an accessory to misadventure."

• (Anne-Louise Lambert) "When your speech is as coarse as your face, Louis, then you sound as impotent by day as you perform by night."

• (Anne-Louise Lambert) "Your innocence, Mr. Neville, is always sinister."

David Gant as Mr. Seymour

• (David Gant) "It is said that the Duke de Corsay invited his water mechanic to the top of an elaborate cascade he had built and asked him if he could build such a marvel for anyone else. The man, offering various thanks and pleasantries, finally admitted that with sufficient patronage he probably could. The Duke de Corsay pushed him gently in the small of the back, and the wretched man plummeted to a watery death."

Anthony Higgins as Mr. Neville

• (Anthony Higgins) "Why doesn't your husband have the moat cleaned out?"
• (Unnamed) "He doesn't like to see the fish. Carp live too long; they remind him of Catholics. Besides, from his window, the duckweed could be mistaken for lawn."

• (Anthony Higgins) "You must forgive my curiosity, madam, and open your knees."

• (Anthony Higgins) "Why is that dutchman waving his arms about? Is he homesick for windmills?"

• (Anthony Higgins) "Madame, who is this child who walks the garden with such a solemn look on his face?"
• (Anne-Louise Lambert) "That is my husband's nephew, Mr. Neville."
• (Anthony Higgins) "He attracts servants like a little midget king. What is his patrimony, madame?"
• (Anne-Louise Lambert) "His father was killed at Aufbergensfeld. His mother became a Catholic so my husband had him brought to England."
• (Anthony Higgins) "To be raised as a little Protestant?"
• (Anne-Louise Lambert) "He was an orphan, Mr. Neville, and needed to be looked after."
• (Anthony Higgins) "An orphan, madame, because his mother became a Catholic?"

• (Anthony Higgins) "Well, that was ingenious."
• (Anne-Louise Lambert) "Since when has adultery been ingenious? You are ridiculous, Mr. Neville."

• (Anthony Higgins) "Four garments and a ladder do not lead us to a corpse."
• (Anne-Louise Lambert) "Mr. Neville, I said nothing about a corpse."

Neil Cunningham as Mr. Noyes

• (Neil Cunningham) "Madam, you are disingenuous beyond words."

• (Neil Cunningham) "Mr. Chandos was a man who spent more time with his gardener than his wife. They discussed plum trees; ad nauseam. He gave his family and his tennants cause to dread September, for they were regaled with plums till their guts rumbled like thunder and their backsides ached from overuse. He built the chapel at Fouvant, where the pews are made of plumwood, so the tennants still have cause to remember Chandos through their backsides; on account of the splinters."

• (Neil Cunningham) "Mr. Lucas was a man whose ethusiasms were divided equally between his garden and his children. Whenever his wife conceived, Mr. Lucas planted fruit trees. His wife seldom came to a successful labor, and those children she was blessed with died before weening. Mr. Lucas threatened to cut his trees down but he never did. To date there are eleven trees in his fruit garden; and he knows them all by their Christian names."

Lynda La Plante as Mrs. Clement

• (Lynda La Plante) "Some years ago, two gentlemen went back to Amsterdam saying that Allhevingay was just like home. There was so much water; so many ornamental ponds, so many canals, so many sinks and basins. There was even a wind pump. What they had not realized was my father had made his land into a pattern of reservoirs because he was terrified of fire. There was even a room under the front stairs that housed two hundred buckets, all of them filled with water. I know because whenever I was taken short, my brothers and I used to rush in there and use them."
• (Lynda La Plante) "Those buckets were filled before my mother died. I expect them to be still there, with the same water of thirty years ago, I shouldn't wonder; mixed with a little of myself, of course. I used to pee like a horse. I still do."

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