Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film) Quotes

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film) is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . Goodbye, Mr. Chips ended in 1970.

It features Arthur P. Jacobs as producer, Leslie Bricusse (songs) in charge of musical score, and Oswald Morris as head of cinematography.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film) is 152 minutes (initial release) long. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film) is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (US).

The cast includes: Petula Clark as Katie, Clinton Greyn as Calbury, Peter O'Toole as Chips, Michael Redgrave as Headmaster, George Baker as Sutterwick, Siân Phillips as Ursula, and Michael Bryant as Staefel.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film) Quotes

Petula Clark as Katie

• (Petula Clark) "I'm going to ask Apollo a question."
• (Peter O'Toole) "You mustn't ask a personal question, well, not a specific one like uh --"
• (Petula Clark) "Like "Will Bill Calbury come back to me?" No (sighs), I won't bore Apollo with that, I promise you."

• (Petula Clark) "Sorry, am I going too fast for you?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "My dear young lady, I could easily go just as fast as you if I cared to risk a broken ankle and be carried back on a stretcher. It's extremely foolish to leap around in a ruined circus like a mountain goat. Especially in those shoes. These stones are treacherous."

• (Petula Clark) "The headmaster's a darling. His wife's a bitch."
• (Peter O'Toole) "That's not a word we use here."
• (Petula Clark) "You should I think."

• (Petula Clark) "No, the allusion was to the stage which used to be my profession."
• (Michael Redgrave) "Indeed."
• (Unnamed) "You're an actress, Mrs. Chipping?"
• (Petula Clark) "Well, not even my best friends would call me that."
• (Unnamed) "Aw, and what would they call you?"
• (Petula Clark) "A soubrette. That's the girl in musical comedy who sings the big number and, in the end, loses the man."
• (Petula Clark) "In real life, they nearly always end up the wives of earls. I nearly did. But luckily -- I met Chips."

• (Petula Clark) "By the way, how do you know she isn't here?"
• (Clinton Greyn) "She?"
• (Petula Clark) "The girl the Evening News said you were going to marry?"
• (Clinton Greyn) "Oh, yes. I saw that. Me and Penelope Fitzdouglas. Isn't it ridiculous?"
• (Katie (annoyed)) "Sidesplitting."

• (Petula Clark) "Yes, well, you're very active for your age."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Since you cannot conceivably know what my age is, your most flattering compliment must be based on a somewhat conjectural premise."
• (Petula Clark) "You've done it again. Now that's three times you've made me laugh. And only this morning I thought I'd never laugh again. I suppose it's your being a schoolmaster."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I fail to see what is so laughable about that."
• (Petula Clark) "Well, no, it's not laughable. One doesn't laugh at people only because they're funny. Not some people. C'mon -- there's so much to see before the sun goes down on us --"

• (Petula Clark) "What does that mean?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Gnothe seauthon. Know yourself. The watchword of Apollo."
• (Petula Clark) "The god of prophecy?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Among other things --"
• (Petula Clark) "Know yourself. That's quite a watchword. Gnothe seauthon."
• (Peter O'Toole) "You're most retentive."
• (Petula Clark) "Give me a good line and I can remember it."

• (Petula Clark) "Ursula, darling, you must see the bell tower. And here's your guide (pointing to Herr Staefel)."
• (Siân Phillips) "The bell tower? (realizing Katie's unspoken intention) Oh, yes, of course -- the bell tower. (Laughs) Later --"
• (Michael Bryant) "I hope you like early English perpendicular."
• (Siân Phillips) "Darling, I revel in early English perpendicular."

Siân Phillips as Ursula

• (Siân Phillips) "Oh, but I adore English public schools. I simply worship them all. Even that idiotic Westchester -- where you can't ask a boy out to tea without everyone asking the most extraordinary questions."

Peter O'Toole as Chips

• (Peter O'Toole) "We must go in, dear. The headmaster always goes in last, and the boys always receive him standing and in silence."
• (Petula Clark) "Sounds like a dream entrance."

• (Peter O'Toole) "There was a boy who, when asked to translate into Latin Tennyson's beautiful lines "Break, break, break on Thy cold grey stones, O Sea," came up with "O fluctus, fluctus, rumpety-rumpety jam." (laughter from the class) He's now a bishop. (More laughter)"

• (Peter O'Toole) "You are William C. Belfridge's ward. Miss Katherine Bridges."
• (Petula Clark) "Now that's wrong, too. It's not my real name. My real name is -- now you won't laugh, will you? It's Brisket."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Charmingly Anglo-Saxon."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Oh, I'm extremely sorry, I was kissing my wife."
• (Unnamed) "Why?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "I don't know, really. It somehow seemed a good idea at the time."

• (Peter O'Toole) "The Lex Canuleia is not, as Cawley Minor seems to think, a law regulating canals, but a law that permitted Roman patricians to marry plebeians. An easy way to remember it is to imagine a Miss Plebeian wishing to marry a Mr. Patrician, and Mr. Patrician saying he can't. She could then reply "Oh yes, you can, you liar.""

Clinton Greyn as Calbury

• (Clinton Greyn) "I've met you somewhere before. I certainly remember that voice."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Now here are your stick and hat, and that, as you plainly know, is the front door."
• (Clinton Greyn) "Katie, you?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Straight ahead, please."
• (Clinton Greyn) "That voice. There's something about it. I don't know who you are, but I can guess what you are. You're a school teacher, aren't you?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Correct."
• (Clinton Greyn) "I bet you give your boys hell."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Only the bad ones."

Michael Redgrave as Headmaster

• (Michael Redgrave) "An ancient ruin did you say, my dear?"
• (George Baker) "This isn't a joke, is it?"
• (Unnamed) "Chippings lost all sense of proportion."
• (Michael Redgrave) "Some people might think he'd found it."

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