“Stiff Upper Lips” quotes

“I'm a beautiful, young virgin in Italy. I want my sexual awakening and I want it now!”
Georgina Cates - Emily

“Let it be recorded that the condemned pleaded not guilty.”

Peter Alexander Ustinov - Horace

“- Cedric: Do you make an effort to be stupid or does it come naturally?
- Edward: Are those the only two choices?”
Robert Portal - Cedric
Samuel West - Edward

“- Hudson Junior: Where will you go?
- Rosie: My nana has kindly invited me to London town to stay with her and be a prostitute.
- Hudson Junior: You are indeed fortunate to have such an understanding family.
- Rosie: If you're ever passin', do pop in. Like her and me mam and me sister, I hope to bear many illegitimate children into abject poverty.”
Frank Finlay - Hudson Junior
Anna Livia Ryan - Rosie

“- Aunt Agnes: What is that you're reading? Show me.
- Cedric: It's the new E. M. Forster novel.
- Aunt Agnes: Oh! Not another of them! Is it amusing?
- Cedric: Why, I find it difficult to identify with the characters, but the locations are quite enchanting.”
Prunella Scales - Aunt Agnes
Robert Portal - Cedric

“- George: I want the hand of your niece.
- Aunt Agnes: Emily must make her own decision.
- George: So you wouldn't object?
- Aunt Agnes: I don't give a monkey's.”
Sean Pertwee - George
Prunella Scales - Aunt Agnes

“Aunt Agnes, just remember you are not losing a niece, you are gaining a man who is... awfully good at croquet and who can probably greet the wedding guests in Greek, Latin... and hieroglyphics.”
Georgina Cates - Emily

“I wish that Cedric was more like you. He is such a queer fellow and you're always... so gay.”
Peter Alexander Ustinov - Horace

“The bushiness of his eyebrows is more than twice the socially acceptable level.”
Georgina Cates - Emily

“Miss Ivory, having carefully considered the advantages and disadvantages, I feel it is my duty to ask you to become my wife so that no man may say a Trilling child might be a bastard.”
Robert Portal - Cedric

“Ten years, plus two for having pleaded not guilty, making thirteen years in all.”

Peter Alexander Ustinov - Horace

“- Aunt Agnes: Have you been urinating in the soup again?
- Hudson Junior: There will be worse to come, madam, in the main course and the pudding.”
Prunella Scales - Aunt Agnes
Frank Finlay - Hudson Junior

“Italy is so foreign, look at the effect it's had on poor Mr. Tweeb. I propose we go somewhere more English. The lawn please, George.”
Prunella Scales - Aunt Agnes

“- George: I'm white. So what? All men are equal, and all women. The world is a changing place.
- Horace: I won't have an English servant in my house. Bad for the morale. It may cause the whole empire to crumble.
- George: I have my rights.
- Horace: Rights? This is not some namby-pamby suburb of London, this is the Raj!”
Sean Pertwee - George
Peter Alexander Ustinov - Horace