Bodelaire Sheriek: Yes, What do you want?
Chekhov: Bodelaire, I'm Chekhov.
Bodelaire Sheriek: Huh?
Chekhov: If only we could sell the house and go back to Moscow.
Bodelaire Sheriek: What are you talk... oh yes, yes of course, the password. Uhm, just a minute ehm... ah... life is just a bowl of cherry orchards? No?
Chekhov: No.
Bodelaire Sheriek: Oh! well, of course: but first we must cut down the orchards.
Chekhov: Hmm.


--John Le Mesurier (as ) in The Liquidator

Dr. Tranter: Cut deeply, John. That's the secret of surgery nowadays: cut deeply.


--John Le Mesurier (as ) in Jack the Ripper

Scotland Yard Man: Personally, I feel that we are dealing with a dangerous character. Not for what he claims to be, but for what he is; a fanatical scientist with a stupid gang of men who have allowed themselves to be mesmerized by legend.


--John Le Mesurier (as ) in My Son the Vampire

Scotland Yard Man: Scientist calling himself The Vampire is a man named Von Housen born in Bosnic in 1894. He is the descendant of Baron Von Housen whom legend immortalized as a vampire. For reasons of his own, Von Housen claims to be an earthly reproduction of his notorious ancestor, owing his continued existence to the consumption of human blood. Needless to say, there is not the faintest vestige of truth in his claim, but it does not deny that he is a scientist of considerable repute and his activities shall be restrained.


--John Le Mesurier (as ) in My Son the Vampire

[talking about Windrush]
Major Hitchcock: He's a new man. He hasn't got used to the natural rhythm of the other workers.
Waters: What you call their natural rhythm of work is neither natural, rhythmic, or anything very much to do with work.


--John Le Mesurier (as Waters) in I'm All Right Jack