'In Praise of Love': A second look at the 1970s play's retorts and tear-jerkers

Sebastian Cruttwell is a cantankerous intellectual snob with serious domestic failings and a case of chronic egotism. He does, on the other hand, have a way with a quip. Neurotically attentive to the state of his library, he is suspicious when his wife claims to have been dusting the history books.