Quotes from To Sir, with Love (1967)

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Sidney Poitier
Mark Thackeray: If you apologize because you are afraid, then you're a child, not a man.
- Sidney Poitier (as Mark Thackeray) in To Sir, with Love (1967)

Sidney Poitier
Mark Thackeray: It seems that you know so little, and are so easily amused, that I can look forward to a very happy time.
- Sidney Poitier (as Mark Thackeray) in To Sir, with Love (1967)

Judy Geeson
Mark Thackeray: One of the girls should go over and bring flowers.
[awkward silence]
Mark Thackeray: What is it?
Denham: The girls can't go with flowers. Did you see him? Do you know what people would say?
Pamela Dare: I'll go. I don't care what they say.
- Judy Geeson (as Pamela Dare) in To Sir, with Love (1967)

Geoffrey Bayldon
Theo Weston: Anybody can be an engineer, but teaching this mob is... well, l wish l had your gift.
- Geoffrey Bayldon (as Theo Weston) in To Sir, with Love (1967)

Geoffrey Bayldon
Theo Weston: Dancing is merely their way of keeping fit for the more exciting pastime of teacher baiting.
- Geoffrey Bayldon (as Theo Weston) in To Sir, with Love (1967)

Geoffrey Bayldon
Theo Weston: So you're the new lamb for the slaughter.
- Geoffrey Bayldon (as Theo Weston) in To Sir, with Love (1967)

Geoffrey Bayldon
Theo Weston: The music´s louder than usual. They´re probably celebrating their victory over Hackman.
- Geoffrey Bayldon (as Theo Weston) in To Sir, with Love (1967)

Sidney Poitier
Mark Thackeray: I lost my temper -- the one thing I swore I would never, never do. God, did I lose my temper. I never would have thought it. Of all of the bull I've taken in my life -- in a few short weeks those kids have got me so steamed up so… so easy, so quickly. I never would have thought it.
- Sidney Poitier (as Mark Thackeray) in To Sir, with Love (1967)

Sidney Poitier
Mark Thackeray: If you must play these filthy games, then do them in your homes -- and not in my classroom!
- Sidney Poitier (as Mark Thackeray) in To Sir, with Love (1967)

Sidney Poitier
Mark Thackeray: Those kids are devils incarnate, huh. I've tried everything, everything -- but nothing I've tried... kids -- kids -- that's it -- kids!
- Sidney Poitier (as Mark Thackeray) in To Sir, with Love (1967)

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