Wetherby Pond: [responding in exasperation to Miss Whitchurch informing him that her girls will arrive imminently, as St Swithin's is a boarding school that specializes in outposts] Madam, I don't care where they come from or even if the sun never sets upon them.


--Alastair Sim (as ) in The Happiest Days of Your Life

Wetherby Pond: My mind is made up on one thing Miss Whitchurch: if I sink, you sink with me!


--Alastair Sim (as ) in The Happiest Days of Your Life

Eve Gill: There's nothing the matter with your reputation!
Commodore Gill: Oh, indeed? I'd rather flattered myself that there was...


--Alastair Sim (as Commodore Gill) in Stage Fright

[last line. Mr S. Potter to the camera]
Mr. S. Potter: I do apologize ladies and gentlemen, events do seem to have taken a most unfortunate turn. This sort of calamity we cannot always guard against, even amongst our best students. You see once, once sincerity rears its ugly head, well lifemanship is powerless...
[an orchestra starts to play]
Mr. S. Potter: stop that music... orchestra!... orchestra... stop that infernal din. Please, no, I... look at me, I must get back to Yeovil.


--Alastair Sim (as ) in School for Scoundrels