Editor (Jeff): I don't care a tinker's damn about this eclipse of the sun as such; the evening papers will cane it, it'll be dead by tomorrow morning. But what I do care about is why there was an eclipse of the sun ten days before it was due. Bill, this is your department.
Bill Maguire: I don't know why everybody regards me as Nostradamus. Your guess is as good as mine.
Editor (Jeff): Yes, but I don't want guesses, I want facts. Try someone on top. Sir John Kelly...
Bill Maguire: Stenning got in to see Kelly.
Peter Stenning: He had twenty-eight armed guards around him.
Editor (Jeff): Yes, but what did he say?
Peter Stenning: He wouldn't even say "Good night" in case it was taken as an official comment on the future of mankind.


--Edward Judd (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Jeannie Craig: [watching Peter carrying a lost child on his shoulder] You look as if you're used to carrying children.
Peter Stenning: My doctor says I have the perfect figure for it.


--Edward Judd (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Joseph Cavor: Yet to fight in a war is considered an honor. Well, it's difficult to explain, but men who are killed in battle are heroes. That's odd, isn't it?
The Grand Lunar: Men enjoy to make war?
Joseph Cavor: No. No, they detest it!
The Grand Lunar: Then if they make war, they are defective.
Joseph Cavor: Well... well, we're not perfect. Well, mankind is still developing. We're not, we're not perfect. There are men of peace.
The Grand Lunar: My concern is with the men of violence, the men who kill. Soon others will be coming from Earth. Our galleries will be strewn with dead.
Joseph Cavor: There needn't *be* any others! There needn't *be* any others! I'm the only one who holds the secret of Cavorite.
The Grand Lunar: Then you and your secret will remain here on the Moon.
Arnold Bedford: [shouts] Cavor!
[leaps from hiding]
Arnold Bedford: Cavor, this is not an audience! You're on trial!


--Edward Judd (as ) in First Men in the Moon

Arnold Bedford: Poor Cavor! He did have such a terrible cold.


--Edward Judd (as ) in First Men in the Moon

Peter Stenning: Alcoholics of the press, unite!


--Edward Judd (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Peter Stenning: Anything you can split I can split better!


--Edward Judd (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Peter Stenning: Hello, Pat.
Pat Holroyd: Well.
Peter Stenning: It's a bit better than Picture Post, isn't it?
Pat Holroyd: Stenning, what the hell do you want?
Peter Stenning: A quote on sun-spots.
Pat Holroyd: Sun-spots?
Peter Stenning: Look, just tell me that the static, the monsoon, the compass trouble, and the terrible shows we get on television are all caused by sun-spots, and that the sun-spots are caused by bigger bomb experiments, and I'll leave you in peace.
Pat Holroyd: Well, there usually is a bit of extra sun-spot activity this time of year, old boy, but I don't think it has much to do with anything.
Peter Stenning: But there could be some connection. Oh, come on, say "Yes," what harm could it do you?
Pat Holroyd: Look, Stenning, it's nice to see you again, but I'm afraid I'm up to my neck, old boy.
[to his secretary]
Pat Holroyd: All right, Miss Johnson, take this to the Typing Pool and have it mimeographed immediately.
[to Stenning]
Pat Holroyd: I see you're still a bit of a liberty-taker...
Peter Stenning: Well, give me something, Pat, I've got to get a story out of this!
Pat Holroyd: Sorry, can't oblige, old boy.
Peter Stenning: But why not? It's a perfectly routine, harmless, silly-season story.
Pat Holroyd: Look, Peter! You've no right to be here...
Peter Stenning: Well, it is, isn't it? Well, just tell me: yes or no?
Peter Stenning: I don't have to tell you anything, Stenning. You aren't in a special position that entitles you to a first break on anything that comes into this office.
Peter Stenning: You mean something *has* come in.
[Holroyd freezes, and is clearly relieved when the telecom buzzes him]


--Edward Judd (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Peter Stenning: So Man has sown the wind - and reaped the whirlwind. Perhaps in the next few hours, there will be no remembrance of the past, and no hope for the future that might have been. All the works of Man will be consumed in the great fire out of which he was created. But perhaps at the heart of the burning light into which he has thrust his world, there is a heart that cares more for him, than he has ever cared for himself. And if there is a future for Man - insensitive as he is, proud and defiant in his pursuit of power - let him resolve to live it lovingly; for he knows well how to do so. Then he may say once more: Truly the light is sweet; and what a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the Sun.


--Edward Judd (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Peter Stenning: Well, Billy boy, they got me doing your homework. Five hundred words on sun-spots.
Bill Maguire: Have you seen the figures on some of these Earth tremors?
Peter Stenning: It's another planet trying to contact us.
[He picks up his empty coffee mug and speaks into it]
Peter Stenning: This is Earth. Are you receiving me? Are you receiving me? You are?
Peter Stenning: Well get knotted.
Peter Stenning: [He sets the mug down again]


--Edward Judd (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire

[Jeannie is working as a telephone operator; this is the first time she's talking with Peter Stenning, just a few sentences later]
Peter Stenning: Listen, your job is to pass messages on, when you're asked!
Jeannie Craig: My job is to do what I'm told by the people who gave me the job, and anyway, this isn't my job; I'm from the Pool.
Peter Stenning: Well, then why don't you dive back in and drown?


--Edward Judd (as ) in The Day the Earth Caught Fire