Quotes from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

28 quotes
Maggie Smith
Jean Brodie: Now Jenny, do us a cartwheel for comic relief.

Maggie Smith
Jean Brodie: P-E-T-R-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. Petrification! I do not intend to devote my prime to petrification.

Maggie Smith
Jean Brodie: Safety does not come first. Goodness, truth, and beauty come first.

Maggie Smith
Jean Brodie: Sandy, please try to do as I say and not as I do. Remember, you are a child, Sandy, and far from your prime.

Maggie Smith
Jean Brodie: Six inches is perfectly adequate. More is vulgar!

Maggie Smith
Jean Brodie: The French have a genius for food, but I doubt French women will ever get the vote.

Pamela Franklin
[first lines]
Gordon Lowther: Morning girls. Good Morning.
Sandy: There's Miss Brodie!

Maggie Smith
Jean Brodie: [voiceover] Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

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