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Quotes from The Way to the Stars (1945)

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Basil Radford
'Tinker' Bell: [after ordering tea] They don't warm the pots, you know. I've watched them making it.
Tiny Williams: Well, it's liquid and it's warm. I was afraid they were going to abolish it altogether.
'Tinker' Bell: Oh, but they would have done, they were going to, if I myself hadn't protested to the colonel.
Tiny Williams: Nobly done, Tinkerbell.
- Basil Radford (as Tiny Williams) in The Way to the Stars (1945)

Basil Radford
Peter Penrose: How long do you think this blasted war is going on ?
Tiny Williams: Oh, years and years and years, I should think. Spring 1955 is my personal bet.
- Basil Radford (as Tiny Williams) in The Way to the Stars (1945)

Michael Redgrave
Peter Penrose: I'm afraid I'm strictly amateur.
Flight Lt. David Archdale: There aren't any amateurs and professionals anymore, just good pilots and bad pilots. The good pilots stay alive and the bad ones don't. And that's not true anymore either.
- Michael Redgrave (as Flight Lt. David Archdale) in The Way to the Stars (1945)

Trevor Howard
Squadron Leader Sil Carter: Well, chaps, you don't need me to tell you, the target's the same as yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that.
- Trevor Howard (as Squadron Leader Carter) in The Way to the Stars (1945)

Michael Redgrave
Flight Lt. David Archdale: [reciting] Less said the better, the bill unpaid, dead letter. No roses at the end of Smith, my friend. Last words don't matter, for there are none to flatter. Words will not fill the post of Smith the ghost. For Smith, our brother, only son of loving mother, the ocean lifted, stirred, leaving no word.
- Michael Redgrave (as Flight Lt. David Archdale) in The Way to the Stars (1945)

Stanley Holloway
Mr. Palmer: Oh, would you believe you!
- Stanley Holloway (as Mr. Palmer) in The Way to the Stars (1945)