Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

David Niven: Phileas Fogg

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• Princess Aouda : Mr. Fogg, why must you be so... so British?

  Phileas Fogg : Madame, I am what I am.

• Railway Official : There's still fifty miles of track to be laid between here and Allabahad.

  Phileas Fogg : But the London newspapers announced the opening of this railway throughout.

  Railway Official : That must have been The Daily Telegraph. Never would have read that in The Times.

• Phileas Fogg : And furthermore, you play an abominable game of whist. Good day, sir.

• Monsieur Gasse, Travel Agent : Monsieur! You are now addressing the second most celebrated balloonist in Europe.

  Phileas Fogg : And who is the first?

  Monsieur Gasse, Travel Agent : He is not available. He was, uh, buried last Tuesday.

• Sir Francis Gromarty : One thousand pounds for an elephant? It's outrageous! You've been diddled.

  Phileas Fogg : Undoubtedly. But it's not often one needs an elephant in a hurry.

• Phileas Fogg : Madam, will you join me on the verandah? I understand they serve an outstanding lemon squash.

• Saloon Hostess : Never be in a hurry. You'll miss the best parts in life.

  Phileas Fogg : Madam, you don't understand. I'm looking for my man.

  Saloon Hostess : So am I.

• Phileas Fogg : Steward, my Thursday midday meal has always been and will always be hot soup, fried sole, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, baked potatoes, suet pudding and treacle.

• Phileas Fogg : An Englishman never jokes about a wager, sir.

• Sir Francis Gromarty : Yes, Fogg, There was a time when one could scarcely travel in this part of the country without encountering corpses. Those infamous stranglers.

  Phileas Fogg : What did you say the name that sect was?

  Sir Francis Gromarty : Thuggee.

  Phileas Fogg : Thuggee.

  Sir Francis Gromarty : Uh-huh. Individual members are known as Thugs.

• Phileas Fogg : How did you come to England?

  Passepartout : In a clothes basket, sir. I escaped.

  Phileas Fogg : From what?

  Passepartout : Women, sir.

  Phileas Fogg : A ladies' man, huh? Well, there are no women in this household.

• Andrew Stuart : You're pretty glib, Fogg, but I'd like to see you do it in 80 days.

  Phileas Fogg : You're convinced that I could not?

  Andrew Stuart : So much so that I'll wager £5,000 that you can't.

  Phileas Fogg : Let me understand you clearly, Stuart. Are you formally challenging me to undertake a journey around the world in 80 days?

  Andrew Stuart : I am, sir, and I'm prepared to back my conviction by posting my check right here and now.

  Phileas Fogg : Very well, I accept.

• Phileas Fogg : An Englishman never jokes about a wager, sir.

• Phileas Fogg : My gentlemen, I have on deposit at Barings Bank the sum of £20,000. And I'm willing to wager any or all of it upon the same contention. Namely, that I can complete a tour of the world in 80 days. That is to say, 1,920 hours or 115,200 minutes. Would anyone besides Stuart care to participate?

• Phileas Fogg : Give me that red bag. Open it up. We'll need plenty of money. Whatever you do, never let this out of your sight.

  Passepartout : Monsieur can trust me. I will cherish it like - like a woman.

  Phileas Fogg : Don't make love to it. Just watch it.

• Phileas Fogg : You actually mean that unfortunate young woman is going to be burned alive?

  Sir Francis Gromarty : Oh, she's quite resigned to it.

• Phileas Fogg : What if we decided to save her?

  Sir Francis Gromarty : Good heaven, man, you can't interfere with native affairs.

• Phileas Fogg : There will be no further fiddle-faddle.

• Phileas Fogg : Would you care to hear about the time I drew a flush hand in diamonds?

  Princess Aouda : If you'd care to confide in me.

• [last lines] 

  Phileas Fogg : My dear... I must ask you to leave these precincts at once. No woman has ever set foot in the club.

  Princess Aouda : Why not?

  Phileas Fogg : Because... that could spell the end of the British Empire.

  [a shocked servant drops his tray, a huge portrait falls from the wall, and the curtains of the huge window draw, revealing a triumphant Passepartout standing at the window] 

  Ralph : This *is* the end.

• Phileas Fogg : Devil take the man. Where could he be?

  Sir Francis Gromarty : Oh, chasing after some woman or other, I suppose. These foreigners, you know.

• Phileas Fogg : So I did the only decent thing a man could do.

  Princess Aouda : You mean?

  Phileas Fogg : Yes, I finessed my queen of hearts and forced Finch-Tattersall to sacrifice his ace. It was a tense moment, I can assure you. I wish you had seen Lord Dudley's expression. Poor fellow went dead white. Bit clean through his pipe stem.

• Phileas Fogg : I had no idea you were so keen about whist.

• Phileas Fogg : Would you care to join me on the veranda? I understand they serve an outstanding lemon squash.

• Phileas Fogg : I've told you before, do not spoil the natives.

• Phileas Fogg : Now what is the delay?

  Train Conductor - San Francisco to Fort Kearney : Indians. But they're peaceful Indians. You can tell that by the peace pipes they're smoking.

• Phileas Fogg : I only smoke my own blend.

  Col. Proctor Stamp : Oh, you do, do you? You don't want to befoul your lips with a plebeian cigar?

  Phileas Fogg : No, it's just I'd prefer what my own tobacconist compounds for me.

  Col. Proctor Stamp : Well, sweet spirits of niter, aren't you the tender bud.

• Passepartout : It's all my fault, sir. You should have caught that train and let those Indians cook me. Then everybody would have been happy.

  Phileas Fogg : No. Balderdash.

  Mr. Fix : What I always say is, it's an ill wind that blows no good.

• Phileas Fogg : [In pidgin English]  Boss man here? Him back pretty soon?

  Hong Kong Citizen : [In flawless English]  I should say the probabilities are strongly against it.

  Phileas Fogg : I beg your pardon. Where is Mr. Cominjee?

  Hong Kong Citizen : In Holland, I believe. He amassed a considerable fortune by means I shall not attempt to describe, and has retired to Amsterdam to raise tulips.

  Phileas Fogg : He might at least have left a card on his door to that effect.

  Hong Kong Citizen : The gentleman was quite illiterate, sir, and moreover, he was pressed for time. He retired 10 minutes before the constables arrived.