Murder She Said (1961)
Margaret Rutherford: Miss Jane Marple
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Quotes
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Ackenthorpe : Cod's as good as lobster any day, and much cheaper.
Miss Marple : Well, that depends on whether or not one has a palate unsullied by cheap opiates.
Ackenthorpe : If you mean what I think you mean, I'll have you know this cheroot cost two shillings!
Miss Marple : Yes. Quite.
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Craddock : We have come to the conclusion that what you saw on the train was... uh... well, a man and a woman...
Miss Marple : Yes, as I said.
Craddock : I mean, perhaps they were honeymooners.
Miss Marple : I may be what is termed a spinster, but I do know the difference between horseplay and murder.
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Ackenthorpe : There is one thing I cannot tolerate, and that is impertinence.
Miss Marple : Well, we should get on admirably. Neither can I!
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Miss Marple : You contrived to introduce arsenic into my curry - which I find unforgivable, by the way.
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Ackenthorpe : If you don't shut those windows you'll be fired.
Miss Marple : In that case I shall require four weeks' wages in lieu of notice.
Ackenthorpe : Get out of my sight, woman!
Miss Marple : With pleasure!
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Mr. Stringer : What a frightful looking man.
Miss Marple : What a frightful looking dog.
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Alexander : You know, it isn't just that you don't look like Jayne Mansfield. You're not *my* idea of a maid, either.
Miss Marple : Well, quite honestly, I don't think *you're* everybody's idea of a boy.
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Miss Marple : I'm Jane from Mrs. Binster's Employment Agency - the new maid!
Mrs. Kidder : [laconically] Well, you look old enough to know better. Come in.
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Miss Marple : [shaking her head in disappointment at the departing Mrs. Kidder] The younger generation!
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Craddock : Have they got any other servants?
Miss Marple : Yes they have, Inspector.
Craddock : Good Lord! You!
Miss Marple : Yes. Dotty old me.
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Miss Marple : A policeman's work is never done.
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Miss Marple : I'm afraid I never can resist my own pie, Inspector. Anybody else's, of course.
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Ackenthorpe : I hope it'll be a long time before I have to put up with the whole pack of them again.
Miss Marple : Not a very nice way to talk about one's family.
Ackenthorpe : Not a very nice family.
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Craddock : Withholding information from the police is a very serious matter.
Miss Marple : Oh, I know, Inspector, and I'm most awfully sorry. Will you take tea?
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Ackenthorpe : Well, I've decided to marry you.
Miss Marple : Well, I'm honored, of course.
Ackenthorpe : Of course you are, but come to the point.
Miss Marple : I'm afraid that cannot be.
Ackenthorpe : Why?
Miss Marple : Well, if ever I do embark on such a venture, there is someone else.
Ackenthorpe : Nonsense! I don't believe it. Who on earth would have you?
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Miss Marple : SPOILER:
[Quimper's about to inject her with poison]
Miss Marple : One more murder may be one too many.
Dr. Quimper : This won't be a murder, the death certificate I'll write up will say heart failure.
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Miss Marple : I'm quite sure you mean well, Inspector, but if you imagine that I'm going to sit back and let everyone regard me as a dotty old maid, you're very much mistaken.
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Miss Marple : If I could just have a quiet word with Mrs Binster...?
'Mrs. Binster' : I am Mrs Binster.
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Alexander : You're not, by any chance, on the run from the police, are you?
Miss Marple : Too much television. You must learn to rationalize your imagination!
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Miss Marple : A policeman's work is never done.
Craddock : Nor a woman's.
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Alexander : You know, there's something decidedly fishy about you. I can see you'll have to go, after Mrs. Kidder, of course, she's next. Depressing creature, so was Annie.
Miss Marple : Annie?
Alexander : Your predecessor. Thin as a rake and a shocking cook. Can you cook?
Miss Marple : Well, I think I've done better than Annie.
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Alexander : We've never had a golf-playing maid before.
Miss Marple : You may have heard that this is the Age of the Common Woman.
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Craddock : And no such woman has been seen getting on or off the train, either alone or with anybody else.
Miss Marple : Of course not, she was dead.
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Miss Marple : I don't think you'll like it, Hilda. Too obvious; the mother did it, of course.
Mrs. Helen Stainton : How can you possibly know that? The book has only just come in.
Miss Marple : It always is with Falcon-Smith. A deprived child, you know.
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'Mrs. Binster' : Mrs. Hamilton Potts, the Dingley Stud Farm, you know. Seven children; eldest, 7.
Miss Marple : Oh, no, thank you.
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Alexander : [as Miss Marple begins her golf swing] Your weight isn't quite evenly distributed.
Miss Marple : I'll have you know that I won the Ladies' Open Handicap in 1921.
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Mrs. Kidder : [as Miss Marple hands her her wages] Hmm! Much work for very little.
Miss Marple : [shaking her head after the 55 year old Mrs. Kidder leaves] The younger generation. Hmm! Well I don't know.
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Emma : I don't want a housekeeper, you know. I want someone to, well, to do the work.
Miss Marple : Yes. You want cooking, washing up, beds made, floors scrubbed, fires lit, ashes taken away; I quite understand.