Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste

MR. VOYSEY. He stands to lose nothing if I'm spared for a little, and you will only bring a little common sense to bear and try to understand the difficulties of my position.

MR. GEORGE BOOTH. I like to feel that my money is doing some good in the world. These mines are very useful things and forty two per cent is pleasing.

WEDGECROFT. [_Smiling generously._] Well, it's a sensation to see you become arbiter. The Tories are owning they can't do without you. Percival likes you personally . . Townsend...

ABUD _goes to the front door and opening it stands waiting for her. She goes coldly, but timidly to her father, to whom she puts her face up to be kissed._

BOOTH. [_with dignity._] In one moment I shall get very angry. Here am I doing my best to help you and your clients . . and there you sit imputing to me the most sordid motives....

BOOTH. I don't understand it at all. [_they leave him the field._] And why for no earthly reason we must suddenly open up a--a street, which is very painful . . I really cannot...

HUGH. [_with vehemence._] I want a machine gun planted in Regent Street . . and one in the Haymarket . . and one in Leicester Square and one in the Strand . . and a dozen in the...

CARNABY. I think not; the homely Saxon phrase is our literary dagger. Princelike, you ride away from Markswayde. Can I trust you not to stab a socially sick man? Why it's a duty...

AMY. How hopeful! [_Now her voice drops. She is looking back, perhaps at a past self._] If you loved me . . perhaps I might learn to love the thought of your child.

WEDGECROFT. [_Unreasonably nervous, so he thinks._] My dear fellow, Horsham would have thought it was the shame and disgrace if you'd shot yourself after the inquest. That's the...

CARNABY. French is the language of little things. My poor France! Ours is a little world, Parson . . . a man may hold it here. [_His open hand._] Lord John Carp's a fine fellow.

MR. COLPUS. [_proceeding, conveniently deaf._] You remember that at the meeting we had of the parents and friends to decide on the positions of the names of the poor fellows and...

CHRISTOPHER, _who looks incapable of a sound, gazes at his father with round eyes_. EMILY _whispers "Library" to him and adds a kiss in acknowledgement of his good behaviour. Af...

KENT. I haven't been long there and back, have I? The Bishop gave me these letters for you. He hasn't answered the last . . but I've his notes of what he means to say. He'd like...

FRANCES _follows_ LADY DAVENPORT _and_ MRS. FARRANT _starts across the lawn to the billiard room_ . . _An hour later you can see no change in the room except that only one lamp...

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_Naturally it is the dining room--consecrated as it is to the distinguishing orgie of the season--which bears the brunt of what an English household knows as Christmas decoratio...

CARNABY. [_With a curious change of tone._] If you study anatomy you'll find that the brain, as it works, pressing forward the eyes . . thought is painful. Never be defeated. Ch...

TREBELL. [_Roughly, almost insolently._] If you want my advice . . I should do the thing that comes more easily to you, or that will content you most. If you haven't yet made up...

MRS. FARRANT. [_Catching something of her subject's dry driving manner._] Lord Charles takes the superior line and says . . that with his consent the Church may teach the unalte...

HORSHAM. Percival, as an old campaigner, expresses himself very roughly. The point is, that we are after all only the trustees of the party. If we know that a certain step will...

FRANCES. [_Almost blushing._] I half meant to . . I'm sorry. After all, Henry, just because they are forgetting in personal feelings what's best for the country . . it's your du...