Kind Hearts and Coronets

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Originally Posted by Brad the Impala

Some of us suffer a little sometimes for our kinder hearts. I think it’s not a problem that you have ever had.

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Just as well he’s missing the coronet as well

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Originally Posted by StevieWonders

Just as well he’s missing the coronet as well

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was it not Lord Tennyson who wrote kind hearts are more than coronets?

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Originally Posted by bkkguy

was it not Lord Tennyson who wrote kind hearts are more than coronets?

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While that is true I was thinking more of the Alec Guinness film of the same title which took a more satirical view of the saying, as a story about someone “on the make” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_Hearts_and_Coronets

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Originally Posted by StevieWonders

While that is true I was thinking more of the Alec Guinness film of the same title

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well yes, I assumed you were, the Tennyson reference is actually a quote from Edith D'Ascoyne in the movie!

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Originally Posted by bkkguy

well yes, I assumed you were, the Tennyson reference is actually a quote from Edith D'Ascoyne in the movie!

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The line from that movie that sticks in my mind is “I shot an arrow in the air; it fell to earth in Berkley Square”

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Originally Posted by StevieWonders

The line from that movie that sticks in my mind is “I shot an arrow in the air; it fell to earth in Berkley Square”

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Or Berkeley Square for those whose lips move along with the subtitles