Lucy Gordon:
Billy he's a nice young man and she loves him.
Billy Gordon: Oh, don't be so ridiculous. Nobody loves a Tax Inspector. They're beyond the Pale!
Lucy Gordon: It's a most honourable profession.
Billy Gordon: Honourable? Are you kidding?
--Terry-Thomas (as Billy Gordon) in Too Many Crooks
Billy Gordon: Oh, don't be so ridiculous. Nobody loves a Tax Inspector. They're beyond the Pale!
Lucy Gordon: It's a most honourable profession.
Billy Gordon: Honourable? Are you kidding?
--Terry-Thomas (as Billy Gordon) in Too Many Crooks
Grandpa Munster:
Listen, buster, this is modern day England, you can't get away with knocking off Herman!
Freddie Munster: But that's what makes the whole thing so delightful, we can!
--Terry-Thomas (as Freddie Munster) in Munster, Go Home
Freddie Munster: But that's what makes the whole thing so delightful, we can!
--Terry-Thomas (as Freddie Munster) in Munster, Go Home
Charles Firbank:
Good God. Doesn't speak English? And yet, on the other hand, if one will go around marrying persons who pop out of cakes, it's bound to be, well, rather catch as catch can, isn't it, sir?
--Terry-Thomas (as Charles) in How to Murder Your Wife
--Terry-Thomas (as Charles) in How to Murder Your Wife
Charles Firbank:
This is Mr. Ford's shower - thermostatically controlled at Mr. Ford's body temperature: ninety-eight point *seven*!
--Terry-Thomas (as Charles) in How to Murder Your Wife
--Terry-Thomas (as Charles) in How to Murder Your Wife
Freddie Munster:
[still wondering about the identity of 'The Griffin'] By jove, I've got it! It's Cruikshank's! You know, whenever the Americans make a picture about the British, it's always the butler!
--Terry-Thomas (as Freddie Munster) in Munster, Go Home
--Terry-Thomas (as Freddie Munster) in Munster, Go Home
Lord Henry Mayley:
I've always considered murder to be rather un-English. I mean, one's got to draw the line somewhere, hasn't one?
--Terry-Thomas (as ) in The Naked Truth
--Terry-Thomas (as ) in The Naked Truth
Major Hitchcock:
We've got chaps here who could break out in a muck sweat merely by standing still.
--Terry-Thomas (as Major Hitchcock) in I'm All Right Jack
--Terry-Thomas (as Major Hitchcock) in I'm All Right Jack
Raymond Delauney:
[Repeated line during tennis game to Palfrey] Hard cheese old boy!
--Terry-Thomas (as ) in School for Scoundrels
--Terry-Thomas (as ) in School for Scoundrels
Raymond Delauney:
[translating the French menu in the Camelia Room restaurant for Palfrey] The brains of the calf, the liver of the chicken, the legs of the frog... the hoof of the mountain goat in jelly. Tomatoes...
--Terry-Thomas (as ) in School for Scoundrels
--Terry-Thomas (as ) in School for Scoundrels
