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Year: 1941

Director:
Gabriel Pascal*Harold French*David Lean

Major Barbara

Andrew Underschaft: Poverty and slavery have stood up for centuries to your sermons and leading articles. They won't stand up to my machine guns. Don't preach at them. Don't reason with them. Kill them!

-- Robert Morley in Major Barbara (1941)

Year: 1941

Director:
Gabriel Pascal*Harold French*David Lean

Major Barbara

Andrew Underschaft: The fist Underschaft wrote: if God gave man the hand, let not man withhold the sword. The second wrote: all have the right to fight, none have the right to judge. The third wrote up: to man the heaven, to heaven the victory. The fourth had no literary turn, so he didn't write up anything, but he sold cannons to Napoleon under the nose of George III. The fifth wrote up: peace shall not prevail, save with a sword in her hand. But the sixth, my master, was best of all. He wrote up: nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it's not done! After that, there was nothing left for me to say, so I wrote up simply: unashamed.

-- Robert Morley in Major Barbara (1941)

Year: 1941

Director:
Gabriel Pascal*Harold French*David Lean

Major Barbara

Andrew Underschaft: Whatever can blow man up, can blow society up. The history of the world is the history of those who had courage to embrace that truth.

-- Robert Morley in Major Barbara (1941)

Year: 1941

Director:
Gabriel Pascal*Harold French*David Lean

Major Barbara

Andrew Underschaft: When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish old orders, and set up new.

-- Robert Morley in Major Barbara (1941)

Year: 1965

Director:
Frank Tashlin

The Alphabet Murders

Hastings: Where have you been? What have you been doing?
Hercule Poirot: Arranging a little extra insurance my friend.
Hastings: Oh really? Personally I always feel perfectly safe with British railways. Mind you its very different in France, isn't it?
Hercule Poirot: I wouldn't know. I am not French, I am Belgian.
Hastings: Well it's the same thing, you both eat horsemeat.

-- Robert Morley in The Alphabet Murders (1965)

Year: 1962

Director:
Norman Panama

The Road to Hong Kong

Leader of the 3rd Echelon: I'll deal with humanity as I please and I'll do with humanity as I choose and I'll do it from the moon with my radio lunar bombs.

-- Robert Morley (as Leader of the 3rd Echelon) in The Road to Hong Kong (1962)

Year: 1965

Director:
Ken Annakin

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

Lord Rawnsley: The trouble with these international affairs is they attract foreigners.

-- Robert Morley in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)

Year: 1965

Director:
James Hill

A Study in Terror

Mycroft Holmes: For Heaven's sake, stop sawing away on that infernal instrument! It was a sad day when Mother gave it to you, a sad day for her, a sad day for you, a sad day for us all... What I cannot understand is why, since you've had that violin with you so long, you never learned to play!

-- Robert Morley (as Mycroft Holmes) in A Study in Terror (1965)

Year: 1965

Director:
Chuck Jones*Maurice Noble

The Dot and the Line

Narrator: His worried friends noticed so thin and drawn he was, and tried their best to cheer him up. "She's not good enough for you." "She lacks depth." "They're all alike anyway. Why don't you find a nice, straight line and settle down?"

-- Robert Morley in The Dot and the Line (1965)

Year: 1965

Director:
Chuck Jones*Maurice Noble

The Dot and the Line

Narrator: So he tried and failed and tried again, and then, when he had almost lost hope, he found that he could change direction and bend wherever he chose. So he did, and made... an angle. And then again, and made another, and then another, and then another, and then another, and then another. "Hot stuff!", he shouted. Much impressed by his prowess, he set up half the night creating a wild display of bends, sides and angles. "Freedom is not a license for chaos," he observed the next morning. "Oh, what a head!" And right there and then he decided not to squander his talents on cheap exhibitionism.

-- Robert Morley in The Dot and the Line (1965)

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