The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film) Quotes

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film) is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie completed its run in 1970.

It features James Cresson as producer, Rod McKuen in charge of musical score, and Ted Moore as head of cinematography.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film) is 116 minutes long. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Robert Stephens as Teddy Lloyd, Pamela Franklin as Sandy, Maggie Smith as Jean Brodie, Gordon Jackson as Gordon Lowther, Celia Johnson as Miss Mackay, Diane Grayson as Jenny, Shirley Steedman as Monica, and Jane Carr as Mary McGregor.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film) Quotes

Maggie Smith as Jean Brodie

• (Maggie Smith) "Assassin. Assassin."

• (Maggie Smith) "Sandy, please try to do as I say and not as I do. Remember, you are a child, Sandy, and far from your prime."

• (Maggie Smith) "Little girls. I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life."

• (Maggie Smith) "There's very little for me to say, Miss Mackay in the face of your extraordinary prejudice and hostility."
• (Celia Johnson) "Miss Brodie, I am not asking you to say anything. I am asking -- demanding -- that you put your signature, your own signature, on a letter of resignation which I have prepared for you."
• (Maggie Smith) "I will not resign."
• (Celia Johnson) "If you will not resign, you will force me to dismiss you."
• (Maggie Smith) "I will not resign and you will not dismiss me, Miss Mackay. You will not use the excuse of that pathetic, that humorous document to blackmail me. Mr. Lowther, you are a witness to this. Miss Mackay has made totally unsupported accusations against my name and yours. If she has one authentic shred of evidence, just one, let her bring it forth. Otherwise, if one more word of this outrageous calumny reaches my ears, I shall sue. I shall take Miss Mackay to the public courts and I shall sue the trustees of Marcia Blaine, if they support her. I will not stand quietly by and allow myself to be crucified by a woman whose fetid frustration has overcome her judgment. If scandal is to your taste, Miss Mackay, I shall give you a feast."
• (Celia Johnson) "Miss Brodie."
• (Maggie Smith) "I am a teacher. I am a teacher, first, last, always. Do you imagine that for one instant I will let that be taken from me without a fight? I have dedicated, sacrificed my life to this profession. And I will not stand by like an inky little slacker and watch you rob me of it and for what? For what reason? For jealousy. Because I have the gift of claiming girls for my own. It is true I am a strong influence on my girls. I am proud of it. I influence them to be aware of all the possibilities of life -- of beauty, honor, courage. I do not, Miss Mackay, influence them to look for slime where it does not exist. I am going. When my class convenes, my pupils will find me composed and prepared to reveal to them the succession of the Stuarts. And on Sunday, I will go to Cramond to visit Mr. Lowther. We are accustomed, bachelor and spinster, to spend our Sundays together in sailing and walking the beaches and in the pursuit of music. Mr. Lowther is teaching me to play the mandolin. Good day, Miss Mackay."

• (Maggie Smith) "The French have a genius for food, but I doubt French women will ever get the vote."

• (Maggie Smith) "P-E-T-R-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. Petrification. I do not intend to devote my prime to petrification."

• (Maggie Smith) "Ah, chrysanthemums. Such serviceable flowers."

• (Maggie Smith) "For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like."

• (Maggie Smith) "Surely you cannot believe that this is the work of nine-year-olds?"
• (Celia Johnson) "I could believe it was the work of your nine-year-olds."

• (Maggie Smith) "Safety does not come first. Goodness, truth, and beauty come first."

• (Maggie Smith) "Deep in most of us is the potential for greatness or the potential to inspire greatness."

• (Maggie Smith) "It was you who betrayed me."
• (Pamela Franklin) "I didn't betray you; I simply put a stop to you."

• (Maggie Smith) "Now Jenny, do us a cartwheel for comic relief."

• (Maggie Smith) ""Dear Miss Brodie, I hope it will be convenient for you to see me in my office this afternoon at 4:15. Emily Mackay." Four fifteen. Not four, not four thirty, but four fifteen. Hm. She thinks to intimidate me by the use of quarter hours?"

• (Maggie Smith) "I am truly in my prime."

Gordon Jackson as Gordon Lowther

• (Gordon Jackson) "I do not want to be your lover. I want to be your husband."

• (Gordon Jackson) "Morning girls. Good Morning."
• (Pamela Franklin) "There's Miss Brodie."

Robert Stephens as Teddy Lloyd

• (Robert Stephens) "My church understands human imperfection and forgives it. Why can't you?"
• (Maggie Smith) "I am not interested in human imperfection. I am interested in beauty, in art, in truth."

• (Robert Stephens) "You should have married old Lowther, you really should. I'm 43 years old, Jean. Now, how old are you?"
• (Maggie Smith) "I'm -- I'm in my prime."
• (Robert Stephens) "Your "prime". LOOK at yourself, Jean. Look at me: a second-rate painter running to seed. You're NOT in your prime, Jean, you're a frustrated spinster taking it out in idiot causes and dangerous ideas. A schoolmarm."
• (Maggie Smith) "I am a teacher."
• (Robert Stephens) "A teacher or a leader? The dangerous Miss Brodie and her troops. Well, where you lead I cannot follow."
• (Maggie Smith) "Arrividerci."

• (Robert Stephens) "Ah, the dangerous Miss Brodie."

• (Robert Stephens) "The truth is that you bounced into bed with an artist, but you were horrified when you woke up with a man."

• (Robert Stephens) "A man with a wife and six children plus a schoolgirl for a mistress can be called any number of rude names, but "coward" is not one of them."

• (Robert Stephens) "What do you want me to do -- ravish you on the floor for the edification of your girls?"

Celia Johnson as Miss Mackay

• (Celia Johnson) "Violetta was a thoroughly silly woman with diseased lungs."

• (Celia Johnson) "Miss Mackay: Culture is no compensation for lack of hard knowledge."

Jane Carr as Mary McGregor

• (Jane Carr) "I saw them kissing; together."

Shirley Steedman as Monica

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Pamela Franklin as Sandy

• (Pamela Franklin) "I'm not sure about God, but I am now quite sure about witches."

Diane Grayson as Jenny

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