Miss Marple:
Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead, Mr. Stringer!
--Margaret Rutherford (as ) in Murder Ahoy!
--Margaret Rutherford (as ) in Murder Ahoy!
Miss Marple:
I'm afraid I never can resist my own pie, Inspector. Anybody else's, of course.
--Margaret Rutherford (as Miss Marple) in Murder, She Said
--Margaret Rutherford (as Miss Marple) in Murder, She Said
Miss Marple:
I'm quite sure you mean well, Inspector, but if you imagine that I'm going to sit back and let everyone regard me as a dotty old maid, you're very much mistaken.
--Margaret Rutherford (as Miss Marple) in Murder, She Said
--Margaret Rutherford (as Miss Marple) in Murder, She Said
Miss Prism:
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
--Margaret Rutherford (as Miss Prism) in The Importance of Being Earnest
--Margaret Rutherford (as Miss Prism) in The Importance of Being Earnest
Professor Hatton-Jones:
Forgive me - are you a bleeder? When you cut yourself, do you bleed interminably?
--Margaret Rutherford (as ) in Passport to Pimlico
--Margaret Rutherford (as ) in Passport to Pimlico
The Duchess of Brighton:
[waiting for the plane to take off] I have two enormous pills to steady me down and the two pep-pills I took this morning - the pep-up pills. I'm flying already!
--Margaret Rutherford (as The Duchess of Brighton) in The V.I.P.s
--Margaret Rutherford (as The Duchess of Brighton) in The V.I.P.s
[last lines]
Miss Jane Marple: Mr. Cosgood, whatever I may or may not be, I am definitely no angel... Good-bye! Good luck!
--Margaret Rutherford (as ) in Murder Most Foul
Miss Jane Marple: Mr. Cosgood, whatever I may or may not be, I am definitely no angel... Good-bye! Good luck!
--Margaret Rutherford (as ) in Murder Most Foul
[repeated line]
Grand Duchess Gloriana XIII: It's that nasty tin thing again!
--Margaret Rutherford (as ) in The Mouse on the Moon
Grand Duchess Gloriana XIII: It's that nasty tin thing again!
--Margaret Rutherford (as ) in The Mouse on the Moon