- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: Your wife has just been kissed - she has never been kissed by a gentleman before.
- Snodgrass - the Innkeeper: Did my wife have the honor, sir, of being insulted by you - - or the Prince of Wales?
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: You can say anything you like about the Prince - but be careful of my reputation.
- Title Card: Nowhere in all fiction can be found more romance than was crowded into the life of this penniless commoner, whose natural charm and studied insolence made him the greatest dandy of all time - the immortal "Beau" Brummel.
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: My heart is all I have to offer - and that I lay in the hollow of your little hand.
- Prince of Wales: By George! You're a better beau than I am - George!
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: By George! I believe I am - George!
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: I should like to ask Your Royal Highness' permission to resign from the Army?
- Prince of Wales: Have you no wish to serve your country?
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: Not in Manchester, sir.
- Title Card: His house in London was the rendezvous of the smart world. The dandies of the town flocked to his dressing room to learn the latest scandal or the latest style.
- Mr. Abrahams: Mortimer, when is your master going to pay me?
- Mortimer: I have no master, Mr. Abrahams. I am a Gentleman's gentleman.
- Prince of Wales: Will you arrange a little supper for tonight, George, and invite some friends of the female persuasion - say at eight?
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: Make it eight-thirty.
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: My dear Lady Hester, will you do me the honor to marry me when you are free?
- [Lady Hester leans in to embrace Beau]
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: But - if you accept me - I shall hate you like the devil! A divorce and remarriage would hurt my position at court.
- Lady Hester Stanhope: What do we care for scandal? You do love me!
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: I love you more in this moment than ever before - - when I tell you that I have never loved you at all.
- Lady Hester Stanhope: Fool! Do you think I care about anything but my own position at court?
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: Thank you. You have saved me from doing something commonplace.
- Frederica Charlotte - Duchess of York: Mr. Brummel, you are wasting yourself. You have the qualities of a great leader, yet you choose to play the part of court jester.
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: I am a nobody without rank or fortune. I attract attention by insolence and hold it by scandal.
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: Things would have been different, Your Royal Highness, had I known the tenderness of a real woman. A woman to sit beside my fire, to move among my things - to bless them with her touch. A woman like Your Royal Highness!
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: You must listen to me - I have loved but one woman in my life. I loved you then - I love you now - I'll love you always!
- Lady Margery Alvanley: But - Lady Hester?
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: I was lonely - she was amusing.
- Lady Margery Alvanley: And - the Duchess?
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: I was lonely - she was kind.
- Prince of Wales: I have decided to send my good friend, Mr. Brummel, to France, as Ambassador. Frankly, we are tired of our dear Beau's scandals - but scandal is all the rage in France.
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: I shall be quite fashionable in Calais - spending my time *between* London and Paris.
- Title Card: Death kills but once - Life kills many times.
- Gordon Bryon 'Beau' Brummel: [Final lines] Were it the last drop in the cup of life, I would pause to drink - to you.
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