“In Which We Serve” quotes

(1942)
Movie In Which We Serve
Noel Pierce Coward directed this movie in 1942
Title In Which We Serve
Year 1942
Directors Noël Coward, David Lean
Genre Drama, War
Interpreted by
All actors – Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Kay Walsh, Joyce Carey, Derek Elphinstone, Michael Wilding, Robert Sansom, Philip Friend, Chimmo Branson, Ballard Berkeley
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“In Which We Serve” Quotes 5 quotes
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    “A ship can't be happy unless she's efficient and she certainly won't be efficient unless she's happy.”
    Noel Pierce Coward - Captain E. V. Kinross R.N. (Captain "D")
    [Tag:efficiency, happiness, ships]
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    “A happy and efficient ship - a very happy and a very efficient ship. Some of you might think I'm being a bit ambitious wanting both but in my experience you can't have one without the other.”
    Noel Pierce Coward - Captain E. V. Kinross R.N. (Captain "D")
    [Tag:ambition, efficiency, ships]
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    “We all wish you every possible happiness, but I think it only fair to tell you in advance exactly what you are in for. Speaking from bitter experience I can only say that the wife of a sailor is most profoundly to be pitied.”

    Celia Johnson - Mrs. Alix Kinross
    [Tag:experience, happiness, sailors]
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    “We will not deal with the question of pay as that is altogether too painful. But what we will deal with is the most important disillusionment of all, and that is that wherever she goes there is always in her life a permanently undefeated rival: her husband's ship.”

    Celia Johnson - Mrs. Alix Kinross
    [Tag:rivalry, ships]
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    “Ladies and gentlemen I give you my rival. It is extraordinary that anyone could be so fond and so proud of their most implacable enemy - this ship. God bless this ship and all who sail in her.”

    Celia Johnson - Mrs. Alix Kinross
    [Tag:pride, rivalry, ships]
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