Gulley Jimson:
What are your feet like?
Charwoman: Why?
Gulley Jimson: If they're really old, trampled feet - as I suspect - I'd like to draw them.
Charwoman: Draw your own feet!
[she leaves]
Gulley Jimson: Old women's feet... thin, flat, long, clinging to the ground like reptiles.
--Alec Guinness (as Gulley Jimson) in The Horse's Mouth
Charwoman: Why?
Gulley Jimson: If they're really old, trampled feet - as I suspect - I'd like to draw them.
Charwoman: Draw your own feet!
[she leaves]
Gulley Jimson: Old women's feet... thin, flat, long, clinging to the ground like reptiles.
--Alec Guinness (as Gulley Jimson) in The Horse's Mouth
Henry Holland:
I was a potential millionaire, yet I had to be satisfied with eight pounds, fifteen shillings, less deductions.
--Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob
--Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob
Henry Holland:
Instead of changing as usual at Charing Cross, I came straight on to Rio de Janeiro. "Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease." Pendlebury.
British man: Plus six Eiffel Towers. How much did they fetch?
Henry Holland: Twenty-five thousand pounds. Enough to keep me for one year in the style to which I was, ah, unaccustomed.
--Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob
British man: Plus six Eiffel Towers. How much did they fetch?
Henry Holland: Twenty-five thousand pounds. Enough to keep me for one year in the style to which I was, ah, unaccustomed.
--Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob
Henry Holland:
Mr. Richards, with gold at 240 shillings per fine ounce, that particle, estimating its value at, .025, would entail a loss at approximately six shillings.
--Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob
--Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob
Henry Holland:
There's nothing to laugh at!
--Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob
--Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob
Koichi Asano:
The hardest word in the English language is "rorripop"
[lollipop]
Koichi Asano: .
--Alec Guinness (as Koichi Asano) in A Majority of One
[lollipop]
Koichi Asano: .
--Alec Guinness (as Koichi Asano) in A Majority of One
Maj. 'Dusty' Miller:
[Getting dressed hurriedly for dance lessons] Hand me my kilt of burning gold. Where are my plimsolls of desire? It's cruelty, that's what it is, cruelty. Margot Fonteyn couldn't suffer more.
--Alec Guinness (as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.) in Tunes of Glory
--Alec Guinness (as Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.) in Tunes of Glory
