Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff:
What is your first name, Miss Cannon?

'Johnny' Cannon:
Angela.

Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff:
What a lovely name. It comes from Angel, doesn't it?

'Johnny' Cannon:
I think it stinks. My friends call me Johnny.

Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff:
You know that, after the war, we had very bad years in germany. We got poorer and poorer. Every day retired officers or schoolteachers were caught shoplifting. Money lost its value, the price of everything rose except of human beings. We read in the newspapers that the after-war years were bad everywhere, that crime was increasing and that honest citizens were having a hard job to put the gangsters in jail. Well in Germany, the gangsters finally succeeded in putting the honest citizens in jail.

Clive Candy:
Are you mad? I know what war is!

Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff:
I don't agree. I read your broadcast up to the point where you describe the collapse of France. You commented on Nazi methods, foul fighting, bombing refugees, machine-gunning hospitals, lifeboats, lightships, bailed-out pilots, by saying that you despised them, that you would be ashamed to fight on their side and that you would sooner accept defeat than victory if it could only be won by those methods.

Clive Candy:
So I would.

Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff:
Clive! If you let yourself be defeated by them, just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you, there won't be any methods BUT Nazi methods! If you preach the Rules of the Game while they use every foul and filthy trick against you, they will laugh at you! They think you're weak, decadent! And if you lose there won't be a return match next year, perhaps not even for a hundred years!

Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff:
You mustn't mind me, an old alien, saying all this. But who can describe hydrophobia better than one who has been bitten - and is now immune.

Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff:
Do you remember, Clive, we used to say: "Our army is fighting for our homes, our women, and our children"? Now the women are fighting beside the men. The children are trained to shoot. What's left is the "home." But what is the "home" without women and children?

Van Zijl:
The Germans know how to make them talk.

Clive Candy:
Well if they are, they're cracking. It's a sure sign. Nobody starts to fight foul until he sees he can't win any other way.

Clive Candy:
Until now, Germany has used her arms with honor.

Clive Candy:
I admit he said nothing about her legs.

Frau Von Kalteneck:
Theo knows only two English expressions: "very much" and "not very much." Right, Theo?

Theo:
Very much.

Clive Candy:
The Kaiser spoke - and the Prince of Wales spoke ...

Edith Hunter:
Spoke about what?

Clive Candy:
Nobody could remember.

Barbara Wynne:
We must go, darling, we have the Bishop for lunch.

Clive Candy:
I hope he's tender.

Clive Candy:
Well sir, I have a friend ...

Colonel Betteridge:
Good. Not everybody can say that. Continue!

Clive Candy:
War starts at midnight!

And this is a lake