The Fantasticks (1964 TV Movie)

Stanley Holloway: Bellamy

Quotes 

• [speaking of Luisa] 

  Bellomy : I'm her father and believe me it isn't easy. That's why I love vegetables - they're so dependable. You plant a radish, you know what you're about... you don't get a turnip or a cabbage. Why, with children, I thought I had planted a turnip or at worst, perhaps, an avocado - something remotely useful. What need have I for a rose?

• Bellomy : If they knew we wanted them to wed...

  Hucklebee : A pre-arranged marriage...

  Bellomy : They'd sooner be dead.

  Hucklebee : Children...

  Bellomy : Lovers...

  Hucklebee : Fantasticks...

  Bellomy : Geese!

• Hucklebee : How clever we are...

  Bellomy : How crafty I know...

  Hucklebee : To manipulate children...

  Bellomy : You merely say, "No".

• [El Gallo has presented his itemized bill for his fake abduction of Luisa to Bellomy and Hucklebee] 

  Luisa : You mean it wasn't real - the bandit, the moonlight?

  Hucklebee : We arranged it.

  Luisa : But the feud...

  Matt : And the wall...

  Bellomy : Built to fall.

  Matt : I don't believe it.

  [hands Matt the bill] 

  Hucklebee : Read on MacDuff.