I'm quite decent and fairly civilized, and I love your daughter very much, which isn't a bit hard.

4 seconds sound clip from the Holiday (1938) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:35:51.241 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Well, suppose you meet me at the Bankers' Club at 1:00 on Friday?

- Oh, I'm terribly sorry, but Friday's out. I've got to go to Boston on business that day.

- Better make it tomorrow.

- Well, I'll see whether I can rearrange my engagements.

- Oh, Ned, Julia, nearly time for lunch, isn't it?

- In the meantime, Mr. Seton, I think that Mr. Sloan or Mr. Hobson might say a good word for me.

- I'm quite decent and fairly civilized, and I love your daughter very much, which isn't a bit hard.

- She seems to like me a lot too, and... well, that's about all that can be said for me, except that I think we have a grand chance of being awfully happy.

- Oh, so do I.

- Come on, Father, be an angel.

- I'm afraid the matter is too important to be decided offhand.

- But I want to be married...

- You will be married, Julia, when I have come to a favorable decision, and on a day which I shall name.

- But our plan was the tenth.

- The tenth is out of the question.

- Oh, but, Father...

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