Spring Tyler: I ain't much thought about it.
Tommy Tyler: *Haven't*, not *ain't*.
Spring Tyler: It means the same thing.
Tommy Tyler: A shoe means the same thing as a boot, but a boot's what you're gonna get in a minute.


--John Mills (as ) in The Truth About Spring

Spring Tyler: Once you get a hold on something you never let go. It's enough to drive a body wild.
Tommy Tyler: Well it wouldn't be any long drive for the likes of you.


--John Mills (as ) in The Truth About Spring

Spring Tyler: You wouldn't hate me then if I left you and married Ashton?
Tommy Tyler: I wouldn't take it kindly if you deprived me of grandchildren!


--John Mills (as ) in The Truth About Spring

Fritz Robinson: What's that?
Father Robinson: That? Oh, that's a quarantine flag. Warning that there's Black Death aboard.
Ernst Robinson: How did you know that?
Father Robinson: Well *I* do a bit of reading, too, you know.


--John Mills (as Father Robinson) in Swiss Family Robinson

William Ashton: I don't know what you're thinking, but I can assure you...
Tommy Tyler: You don't have to assure me of nothing. I know Springer.


--John Mills (as ) in The Truth About Spring

William Ashton: Where do you usually sail, Mr Tyler?
Tommy Tyler: Close to the wind.
Spring Tyler: Too close, if you ask me.
Tommy Tyler: Nobody asked you.


--John Mills (as ) in The Truth About Spring

Ezra Fitton: All this reading books he does, it's not natural.
Lucy Fitton: You wouldn't know what natural is.
Ezra Fitton: My father always used to say if it were natural you'd see animals doing it. I never saw a horse reading.


--John Mills (as ) in The Family Way

Ezra Fitton: He walked in 'ere like it were a public convenience


--John Mills (as ) in The Family Way

Father Robinson: Don't you sometimes feel that this is the kind of life we were meant to live on this earth? Everything we need, everything, right here, right at our fingertips. You know, if only people could have all this and be satisfied, I don't think there'd be any real problems in the world.


--John Mills (as Father Robinson) in Swiss Family Robinson

Lt. Col. Basil Barrow: When you're dying, when you really believe you're dying, you think of the most absurd things.
Capt. Jimmy Cairns, M.C.: In my war I never had time to think.
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow: Oh they gave me time, all right. Again and again. When I was in the prison camp, they nearly drowned me, then they brought me round. Then they put a wet cloth over my mouth and kept it wet until I nearly drowned again. And the only thing that pulled me through was the thought that one day I'd come back and sit in the middle of that table as colonel of this battalion, like my grandfather and his father before him. Only I was going to be the best of the lot.


--John Mills (as Lt. Col. Basil Barrow) in Tunes of Glory