Other Titles • Goodbye, Mr. Chips • Goodbye Mr. Chips (1969)
Quotes from Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
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Katie: By the way, how do you know she isn't here? Calbury: She? Katie: The girl the Evening News said you were going to marry? Calbury: Oh, yes. I saw that. Me and Penelope Fitzdouglas. Isn't it ridiculous? Katie (annoyed): Sidesplitting.
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Katie: Sorry, am I going too fast for you? Chips: 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.
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Katie: Yes, well, you're very active for your age! Chips: Since you cannot conceivably know what my age is, your most flattering compliment must be based on a somewhat conjectural premise. Katie: [laughs] 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. Chips: [insulted] I fail to see what is so laughable about that. Katie: 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...
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Katie: [looking at a carving] What does that mean? Chips: Gnothe seauthon. Know yourself. The watchword of Apollo. Katie: The god of prophecy? Chips: Among other things... [Later at the close of the scene] Katie: [contemplating the temple she has visited] Know yourself. That's quite a watchword. Gnothe seauthon. Chips: You're most retentive. Katie: Give me a good line and I can remember it.
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Katie: I'm going to ask Apollo a question. Chips: You mustn't ask a personal question, well, not a specific one like uh... Katie: Like "Will Bill Calbury come back to me?" No (sighs), I won't bore Apollo with that, I promise you.
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Chips: Did you not hear Miss Bridges ask you to go? Calbury: Who are you? Chips: It doesn't matter who I am. It only matters that Miss Bridges wishes you to leave her house, and you are, therefore, leaving it.
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Calbury: I've met you somewhere before. I certainly remember that voice. Chips: Now here are your stick and hat, and that, as you plainly know, is the front door. Calbury: Katie, you...? Chips: Straight ahead, please. Calbury: 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? Chips: Correct. Calbury: I bet you give your boys hell. Chips: Only the bad ones.
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Headmaster: Chippings' waiting for his wife, I think. Headmaster's Wife: [skeptical] His wife? Sutterwick: Flabbergasting. Who on earth? Wife: Who on earth indeed? [hoots] Wife: It's what we've all been asking ourselves ever since we heard the news. Headmaster: It's apparently someone he met on one of his excursions to the ancient ruins of Pompeii. Wife: Somewhat of an ancient ruin herself, no doubt. [chuckles]
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Headmaster: An ancient ruin did you say, my dear? Sutterwick: [upon seeing Katie] This isn't a joke, is it? Headmaster's Wife: Chippings lost all sense of proportion. Headmaster: Some people might think he'd found it.
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Katie: I'm so terribly sorry about being late. Chips says it's almost as bad as being off your number. Headmaster: I'm afraid I don't quite understand that allusion, Mrs. Chippings. Katie: Oh, Mrs. Chippings! I just love when I'm called that. Headmaster: And you are that, yes? Katie: Oh, yes! Well and truly! Well, unless Chips is a bigamist which I rather suspect. How else could he have escaped...until now?
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Katie: No, the allusion was to the stage which used to be my profession. Headmaster: Indeed. Headmaster's Wife: You're an actress, Mrs. Chipping? Katie: Well, not even my best friends would call me that. Headmaster's Wife: [snidely] Aw, and what would they call you? Katie: A soubrette. That's the girl in musical comedy who sings the big number and, in the end, loses the man. [Chuckles] Katie: In real life, they nearly always end up the wives of earls. I nearly did. But luckily... I met Chips.
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Chips: We must go in, dear. The headmaster always goes in last, and the boys always receive him standing and in silence. Katie: Sounds like a dream entrance.
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Katie: The headmaster's a darling. His wife's a bitch. Chips: That's not a word we use here. Katie: You should I think.
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Ursula: 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.
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Katie: Ursula, darling, you must see the bell tower. And here's your guide (pointing to Herr Staefel). Ursula: The bell tower? (realizing Katie's unspoken intention) Oh, yes, of course... the bell tower! (Laughs) Later... Staefel: I hope you like early English perpendicular. Ursula: Darling, I revel in early English perpendicular!
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Chips: [to his students] 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."
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Chips: [to his students] 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)
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Chips: You are William C. Belfridge's ward. Miss Katherine Bridges. Katie: 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. Chips: Charmingly Anglo-Saxon.
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