A Taste of Honey (1961)

Murray Melvin: Geoffrey Ingham

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Quotes 

• Jo : I feel like throwing myself in the river.

  Geoffrey : I shouldn't do that, it's full of rubbish.

• Geoffrey : You need somebody to love you while you're looking for somebody to love.

• Geoffrey : The dream is gone.

  Jo : But the baby's real.

• Geoffrey : Do you like me more than you don't like me or do you not like me more than you do?

  Jo : Now you're being Irish.

• Jo : My usual self is a *very* unusual self. I'm an extraordinary person! There's only one of me, like there's only one of you.

  Geoffrey : We're unique.

  Jo : Young.

  Geoffrey : Unrivalled.

  Jo : Smashing.

  Geoffrey : We're bloody marvellous!

• [Geoffrey gives Jo a pamplet which explains to new mothers how to look atfer a baby] 

  Geoffrey : Here. Read this. When the baby comes, you won't know one end of it from the other.

  Jo : "Looking after baby". Isn't that nice? Third month: exercises, relaxation. Fourth month: constipation.

  Geoffrey : Drink that and shut up.

  Jo : I hate milk.

  Geoffrey : Well, get it drunk.

  Jo : Does it tell you how to feed babies, Geoffrey?

  Geoffrey : Even *you* know that.

  Jo : I know about *that* way - breast-feeding. I'm not having a little animal nibbling away at *me*. It's cannibalistic!

  Geoffrey : Stop trying to be inhuman. It doesn't suit you.