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Schoolmaster: But God, whatever else He is, and of course He is everything else, is not a fool.
Forty Years On (1969)
Headmaster: Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
Forty Years On (1969)
Headmaster: They were all socialists. Why is it always the intelligent people who are socialists?
Forty Years On (1969)
Franklin: Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery with Violence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
Forty Years On (1969)
Lady Dundown: I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
Forty Years On (1969)
Headmaster: Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
Forty Years On (1969)
Lady Dundown: How can the Zulu expect to be treated as civilized people if they declare war in the middle of the season!
Forty Years On (1969)