Phillip Hastings: Make Michael stop picking on me.


--Reginald Denny (as Phillip Hastings) in Christmas Eve

Sir Harry Percival: A little wine with music...
[Sir Harry winds his gramophone]
Sir Harry Percival: ...a little Nineteenth Century science, Stone Age atmosphere, Cave Man passion...


--Reginald Denny (as Sir Harry Percival) in Cat Ballou

Sanders: Brown, you're a gentleman! You've got breeding! You must have faith!
Brown: Why?
Sanders: Why? Why in Heaven's name, man, what do you believe in?
Brown: Would it really interest you? Oh, a lot of things. A good horse, steak and kidney pudding, a fellow named George Brown, the asinine futility of this war, being frightened, being drunk enough to be brave and brave enough to be drunk, the feel of the sea when you swim, the taste and strength of wine, the loveliness of women, the splendid, unspeakable joy of killing Arabs, the smell of incense and bacon, the weight of a fist, an old pair of shoes, a toothache, triunph...
Sanders: STOP!
Brown: All right.


--Reginald Denny (as Brown) in The Lost Patrol

Michael Brooks: What shall it be, Canada or the Amazon?
Phillip Hastings: For heaven's sake, stay away from those dreadful places.


--Reginald Denny (as Phillip Hastings) in Christmas Eve