Film Quotes by Ernest Thesiger
17 quotes
Year: 1933
Director:
T. Hayes Hunter
Director:
T. Hayes Hunter
Nigel Hartley:
I happened to be staying in the neighborhood, and hearing of your master's illness I took the liberty of calling. How is he tonight?
Laing: He'll never see the morning.
Nigel Hartley: He has not asked for anyone of my cloth?
Laing: Nor will he. He's set in his ways, and they are the ways of the heathen.
Nigel Hartley: I know he won't see the rector, but though I'm a comparative stranger, I don't like to leave a man to die like that.
Laing: He'll die in his own fashion as he has lived.
Nigel Hartley: Still, sometimes at the end...
Laing: Not him! He's stubborn and unbending and will be so at the throne itself!
Laing: He'll never see the morning.
Nigel Hartley: He has not asked for anyone of my cloth?
Laing: Nor will he. He's set in his ways, and they are the ways of the heathen.
Nigel Hartley: I know he won't see the rector, but though I'm a comparative stranger, I don't like to leave a man to die like that.
Laing: He'll die in his own fashion as he has lived.
Nigel Hartley: Still, sometimes at the end...
Laing: Not him! He's stubborn and unbending and will be so at the throne itself!
--
Ernest Thesiger
(as Laing)
in
The Ghoul
(1933)
Year: 1932
Director:
James Whale
Director:
James Whale
Rebecca Femm:
What is it? What do they want?
Horace Femm: Allow me to introduce my sister, Miss Rebecca Femm.
Roger Penderel, Philip Waverton, Margaret Waverton: How do you do?
Rebecca Femm: What are they doing here? What do they want?
Roger Penderel, Philip Waverton, Margaret Waverton: How do you do?
Rebecca Femm: What did they say? What do they want? What are they doing here? What's all the fuss about? What?
Horace Femm: You must excuse my sister, she's a little deaf. In fact sometimes quite deaf.
Horace Femm: Allow me to introduce my sister, Miss Rebecca Femm.
Roger Penderel, Philip Waverton, Margaret Waverton: How do you do?
Rebecca Femm: What are they doing here? What do they want?
Roger Penderel, Philip Waverton, Margaret Waverton: How do you do?
Rebecca Femm: What did they say? What do they want? What are they doing here? What's all the fuss about? What?
Horace Femm: You must excuse my sister, she's a little deaf. In fact sometimes quite deaf.
--
Ernest Thesiger
(as Horace Femm)
in
The Old Dark House
(1932)
Year: 1933
Director:
T. Hayes Hunter
Director:
T. Hayes Hunter
Doctor:
[referring to Morlant] What was the idea of bandaging his hand like that?
Laing: I cannot say. He had many a queer fancy.
Laing: I cannot say. He had many a queer fancy.
--
Ernest Thesiger
(as Laing)
in
The Ghoul
(1933)
Year: 1932
Director:
James Whale
Director:
James Whale
Sir William Porterhouse:
Oh, nothing like roast beef when a man's hungry.
[sings]
Sir William Porterhouse: Oh, the roast beef of Old England... how does that go? Do you remember that Mr Waverton or was that before your time?
Philip Waverton: Penderel's our song expert.
Sir William Porterhouse: Oh, so you're musical, are you? Well, I've got a bit of a good ear myself...
Horace Femm: [knocking loudly on the table] Have a potato!
[sings]
Sir William Porterhouse: Oh, the roast beef of Old England... how does that go? Do you remember that Mr Waverton or was that before your time?
Philip Waverton: Penderel's our song expert.
Sir William Porterhouse: Oh, so you're musical, are you? Well, I've got a bit of a good ear myself...
Horace Femm: [knocking loudly on the table] Have a potato!
--
Ernest Thesiger
(as Horace Femm)
in
The Old Dark House
(1932)
Year: 1953
Director:
Henry Koster
Director:
Henry Koster
Emperor Tiberius:
After forty years with Julia, my approaching death holds few terrors for me.
--
Ernest Thesiger
(as Emperor Tiberius)
in
The Robe
(1953)
Year: 1953
Director:
Henry Koster
Director:
Henry Koster
Emperor Tiberius:
For your sake I interfered, when my wife wanted to give you to Caligula. For your sake I brought your tribune back from Palestine. For your sake, I now free you from him.
Diana: Sire, I have no wish to be free.
Emperor Tiberius: Have you gone mad too?
Diana: He had everything then. He could have had me too. I wanted him, but I wasn't sure that I loved him. Now I am sure.
Emperor Tiberius: I see it my duty to forbid you to see him again. As a child you were wise, but now you reason like a woman - foolishly.
Diana: Sire, I have no wish to be free.
Emperor Tiberius: Have you gone mad too?
Diana: He had everything then. He could have had me too. I wanted him, but I wasn't sure that I loved him. Now I am sure.
Emperor Tiberius: I see it my duty to forbid you to see him again. As a child you were wise, but now you reason like a woman - foolishly.
--
Ernest Thesiger
(as Emperor Tiberius)
in
The Robe
(1953)
Year: 1953
Director:
Henry Koster
Director:
Henry Koster
Emperor Tiberius:
Tell me, what was your impression of Pilate?
Marcellus Gallio: It's not my place to...
Emperor Tiberius: I'm asking you. Did you find him capable?
Marcellus Gallio: Yes sire, he's considered a good administrator.
Emperor Tiberius: Stern, as befits a Roman governor?
Marcellus Gallio: I'm sure of that, sire.
Emperor Tiberius: Just?
Marcellus Gallio: I - I can't say.
Emperor Tiberius: Why not? Surely you can give me some sort of an answer? Tell me, tribune - what happened out there?
Marcellus Gallio: It's not my place to...
Emperor Tiberius: I'm asking you. Did you find him capable?
Marcellus Gallio: Yes sire, he's considered a good administrator.
Emperor Tiberius: Stern, as befits a Roman governor?
Marcellus Gallio: I'm sure of that, sire.
Emperor Tiberius: Just?
Marcellus Gallio: I - I can't say.
Emperor Tiberius: Why not? Surely you can give me some sort of an answer? Tell me, tribune - what happened out there?
--
Ernest Thesiger
(as Emperor Tiberius)
in
The Robe
(1953)
Year: 1953
Director:
Henry Koster
Director:
Henry Koster
Emperor Tiberius:
Tribune Gallio, you are a Roman officer. I command you to gain control over yourself.
--
Ernest Thesiger
(as Emperor Tiberius)
in
The Robe
(1953)
Year: 1953
Director:
Henry Koster
Director:
Henry Koster
Emperor Tiberius:
When it comes, this is how it will start. Some obscure martyr in some forgotten province, then madness. Infecting the legions, rocking the empire, then the finish of Rome.
--
Ernest Thesiger
(as Emperor Tiberius)
in
The Robe
(1953)
Year: 1932
Director:
James Whale
Director:
James Whale
Horace Femm:
[picking up a bunch of flowers] My sister was on the point of arranging these flowers.
[He tosses them into the fire]
[He tosses them into the fire]
--
Ernest Thesiger
(as Horace Femm)
in
The Old Dark House
(1932)