Let the People Sing (1942)

Edward Rigby: Timmy Tiverton

Quotes 

• Timmy Tiverton : If we stick here until we get to a big station, we'll be nabbed sure as eggs is eggs.

  Professor Ernst Kronak : As what?

  Timmy Tiverton : Eggs is eggs!

  Professor Ernst Kronak : Egsisegs! Why, that is something I have not heard before. Tell me please, is Egsisegs some old Celtic or Iberian deity?

• Timmy Tiverton : I don't know anything about democracy 'cos I never bothered with politics - you don't in this profession you know. But it seems to me if these people haven't got enough guts in 'em to 'ang on to this hall of theirs, they deserve to lose it.

• Timmy Tiverton : But it seems to me that if these people haven't got enough guts in them to hang onto this hall of theirs, they deserve to lose it.

  Professor Ernst Kronak : My friend, never say you do not know about politics. You have arrived at the heart of this and many other matters. What we will not trouble to keep, that we deserve to lose.

• Ketley : Well, as I told you, he's balmy when he's bottled, but he's a free and easy balminist. But the next morning - well, you've seen a bit of it.

  Timmy Tiverton : Yes, with his stay for weeks and his brass elephants, huh! Well, he knows what he can do with them.

• Timmy Tiverton : [With Prof. Kronak, watching Sir George imbibe]  That's not a habit - it's a gift.

• Timmy Tiverton : Tell me, where is this place?

  Agent : This? Last place God made. No use anybody coming here.

• Agent : Did you come off the train?

  Timmy Tiverton : That's right.

  Agent : Oh. You didn't get out here on purpose did you?