Kind Hearts and Coronets

[StevieWonders]

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

Just as well he’s missing the coronet as well

[bkkguy]

Just as well he’s missing the coronet as well

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

[StevieWonders]

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

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

[bkkguy]

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

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

[StevieWonders]

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

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”

[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”

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