The V.I.P.s (1963)
Margaret Rutherford: The Duchess of Brighton
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Quotes
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The Duchess of Brighton : 300 pounds a day. I can keep my home now.
Sanders : Your plane, your grace.
The Duchess of Brighton : Tell it, it can go without me.
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The Duchess of Brighton : What a ridiculous form of locomotion flying is. They tie you to your chair and tell you you're going, then they make scarifying noises with their engines, then they untie you and tell you're not going at all. Can you imagine the Queen Mary behaving like that?
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The Duchess of Brighton : [waiting for the plane to take off] I have two enormous pills to steady me down and the two pep-pills I took this morning - the pep-up pills. I'm flying already!
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The Duchess of Brighton : The truth is, I'm a little strung out. You see, its the first time I've ever flown. And this morning I had to borrow one of my maid Armstrong's pep-up pills. Ha. It pepped me up, alright, but, not just up, but in all directions, it seems.
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B.O.A.C. Airplane Announcer : Ladies and Gentlemen, would you kindly fasten your seat belts, please.
The Duchess of Brighton : I haven't brought a seat belt with me.
Jamaican Passenger : You must be sitting on it.
The Duchess of Brighton : Oh, well, have you got one?
Jamaican Passenger : Yes, I have.
The Duchess of Brighton : Oh, I see. What happens now?
Jamaican Passenger : You should have another part.
The Duchess of Brighton : Oh, here it is...
Jamaican Passenger : Here, there we are. Here, this way.
The Duchess of Brighton : I'll leave it to you.
Jamaican Passenger : Now, you put that through there. That, that through there and you're fastened to your chair.
The Duchess of Brighton : You can't be expected to know that. What are they going to do? Loop-the-loop, or something?
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Sanders : Is everything in order?
The Duchess of Brighton : Eh, well not all together, I'm afraid.
Sanders : Your grace is traveling on Flight 905 to Miami.
B.O.A.C. Officer : The, Duchess of Brighton, oh yes, it's under D. Ha-ha. Would that be it?
The Duchess of Brighton : [to Sanders] He does mix his tenses, though, would it, was it. It is.
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The Duchess of Brighton : Why do I have to travel with this ridiculous bag. It's like a bottomless pit. Oh! You know, I'm sure I had it when I left home.
B.O.A.C. Officer : Yes, but I'm afraid you can't travel to America without a vaccination certificate, madame.
The Duchess of Brighton : Why not? I once came through an epidemic of black water fever in Uganda and I hadn't been inoculated or anything? I'm really not afraid of a little small pox.
B.O.A.C. Officer : Yes, well I'm afraid its a regulation, madame.
The Duchess of Brighton : It's a very idiotic one.
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The Duchess of Brighton : Well I shall clearly arrive in Florida in an advanced state of drug addiction.
Hotel Waiter : Florida. That would be nice now. I envy you, madam.
The Duchess of Brighton : Oh. Do you?
Hotel Waiter : Hmm. People swimming and lying about in the sun in all them bright, fancy clothes, and beach parties, and midnight barbecues, and girls doing the twist in their bikinis as like as not.