'Tinker' Bell: [after ordering tea] They don't warm the pots, you know. I've watched them making it.
Tiny Williams: Well, it's liquid and it's warm. I was afraid they were going to abolish it altogether.
'Tinker' Bell: Oh, but they would have done, they were going to, if I myself hadn't protested to the colonel.
Tiny Williams: Nobly done, Tinkerbell.


--Basil Radford (as Tiny Williams) in The Way to the Stars

Farquharson: My men are experts.
Captain Paul Waggett: So are the Todday people, at hiding whisky!


--Basil Radford (as ) in Whisky Galore!

Peter Penrose: How long do you think this blasted war is going on ?
Tiny Williams: Oh, years and years and years, I should think. Spring 1955 is my personal bet.


--Basil Radford (as Tiny Williams) in The Way to the Stars

Captain Paul Waggett: [Speaking about the islanders] They're so unsporting. They don't do things for the sake of doing them like the English. We play the game for the sake of the game. Other nations play the game for the sake of winning it.


--Basil Radford (as ) in Whisky Galore!

Straker: Do you think we shall get more than two main dishes?
Gregg: Oh, I hope so. I haven't had a good feed since that last deadlock in Moscow.


--Basil Radford (as ) in Passport to Pimlico