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Quotes from The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

15 quotes
Sid James
Henry Holland: I said leave it.
Lackery: A ruddy waste! There's many a starving bloke'd be glad of that lot!
- Sid James (as Lackery Wood) in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

Alec Guinness
Henry Holland: I was a potential millionaire, yet I had to be satisfied with eight pounds, fifteen shillings, less deductions.
- Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

Alec Guinness
Henry Holland: Instead of changing as usual at Charing Cross, I came straight on to Rio de Janeiro. "Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease." Pendlebury.
British man: Plus six Eiffel Towers. How much did they fetch?
Henry Holland: Twenty-five thousand pounds. Enough to keep me for one year in the style to which I was, ah, unaccustomed.
- Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

Alec Guinness
Henry Holland: Mr. Richards, with gold at 240 shillings per fine ounce, that particle, estimating its value at, .025, would entail a loss at approximately six shillings.
- Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

Alec Guinness
Henry Holland: The world is ours!
- Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

Alec Guinness
Henry Holland: There's nothing to laugh at!
- Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

Sid James
Lackery: [to Pendlebury who is pointing at him one of his souvenirs from Margate, a gun that fires a stick of rock] Put it away, I'm not hungry.
- Sid James (as Lackery Wood) in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

Alfie Bass
Shorty: I didn't like to say so, but I don't really fancy going to Paris meself.
Henry Holland: Why?
Shorty: Well a friend of mine, he pinched a couple of tickets for the Test Match, see? I wouldn't half like to see that.

Alec Guinness
Shorty: Okay, you're the boss.
Henry Holland: Yes. Yes, that's right - I am.
- Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

Alec Guinness
Turner: Paris, eh? You're stepping out, Holland. Wonderful, isn't it, what a little extra money will do?
Henry Holland: Yes, it's going to make a big difference to me.
- Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)