Cyril Raymond credited as playing...
Austin Penrose
- Austin Penrose: You know it's grand to find something so unchanged.
- Sylvia Russell: But you believe in change. In progress and in success.
- Austin Penrose: Clever woman, your wife Arthur. Unmasks me in a sentence.
- Arthur Russell: Nothing escapes Sylvia.
- Austin Penrose: Yes, I will admit I'm ambitious, Mrs Russell. When I went to New York I said to myself - the sky's the limit.
- Sylvia Russell: New York must be very stimulating.
- Austin Penrose: Over-stimulating. The city devoted to the creation of needs and wants and desires. A city to goad on the successes and kill off the failures.
- Austin Penrose: Arthur's done very well for himself, if you ask me. Lovely daughter, brilliant son, you. What more can a man want?
- Sylvia Russell: Power.
- Austin Penrose: Power's an unknown quantity, Mrs. Russell. Like atomic energy, a destroying explosive, or a creative force, at a high joule. No, on balance, I wouldn't say power was a desirable factor in life.
- Sylvia Russell: Well, no-one fully realizes the value of a thing if they've never had it.
- Austin Penrose: I haven't got power. Authority, yes. A certain amount of authority, but not power.
- Sylvia Russell: Authority is power. I envy you that. I'd have enjoyed power.