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Quotes from Oliver Twist (1948)

12 quotes
Alec Guinness
Fagin: Clever dogs, clever dogs. Never blowed on old Fagin.
- Alec Guinness (as Fagin) in Oliver Twist (1948)

Alec Guinness
Fagin: Strike them all dead! What right have you to butcher me?
- Alec Guinness (as Fagin) in Oliver Twist (1948)

Alec Guinness
Fagin: You'd like to make pocket handkerchiefs as easily as the Artful Dodger, wouldn't you my dear?
Oliver Twist: Yes, if you teach me sir.
Fagin: We will, my dear, we will.
- Alec Guinness (as Fagin) in Oliver Twist (1948)

Francis L. Sullivan
Mr. Brownlow: It only remains for me to tell you that neither of you will ever be employed in a position of trust again.
- Francis L. Sullivan (as Mr. Bumble) in Oliver Twist (1948)

Francis L. Sullivan
Mr. Brownlow: Somehow I feel you and I are going to be good friends.
- Francis L. Sullivan (as Mr. Bumble) in Oliver Twist (1948)

Francis L. Sullivan
Mr. Brownlow: The law assumes that your wife acts under your direction.
Mr. Bumble: If the law supposes that, then the law is a ass, a idiot! If that's the eye of the law, then the law is a bachelor. And the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience.
- Francis L. Sullivan (as Mr. Bumble) in Oliver Twist (1948)

Francis L. Sullivan
Mr. Bumble: Cry your hardest now, it opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes and softens down the temper. So cry away.
- Francis L. Sullivan (as Mr. Bumble) in Oliver Twist (1948)

Francis L. Sullivan
Mr. Bumble: Where is this audacious young savage?
- Francis L. Sullivan (as Mr. Bumble) in Oliver Twist (1948)

Francis L. Sullivan
Mr. Bumble: You'll make your fortune Mr Sowerberry.
Mr. Sowerberry: The prices allowed by the board are very small.
Mr. Bumble: So are the coffins.
- Francis L. Sullivan (as Mr. Bumble) in Oliver Twist (1948)

Francis L. Sullivan
Mr. Sowerberry: There's an expression of melancholy in his face, my dear, which is very interesting. He'd make a delightful mute, my love.
- Francis L. Sullivan (as Mr. Bumble) in Oliver Twist (1948)