The Impossible Years (1968)

David Niven: Jonathan Kingsley

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• Jonathan Kingsley : What are you implying by "she led him on"?

  Dr. Herbert Fleischer : Well, my son is an innocent. Which is more than I can say for your daughter.

  Jonathan Kingsley : Go on implying, but keep your guard up.

  Dr. Herbert Fleischer : Well, doctor-to-doctor, you better know something, Doctor.

  Jonathan Kingsley : Like what?

  Dr. Herbert Fleischer : Well, I concluded her medical yesterday. And to put it unmedically, your daughter no longer qualifies as a spinster.

  Jonathan Kingsley : Do you mean precisely what I think you mean?

  Dr. Herbert Fleischer : Precisely.

• Bartholmew Smuts : [Looking at a painting hanging over Dr. Kingley's fireplace]  Hey, man. That is a pretty groovy reproduction!

  Jonathan Kingsley : That is no reproduction. That is an original Matisse.

  Bartholmew Smuts : An original copy, you mean. Matisse never used a brush stroke like that in his life. Where did you buy this phony?

  Jonathan Kingsley : From a patient of mine who happens to be an art dealer.

  Bartholmew Smuts : That patient's cured, man. *You* belong on the couch.

• Linda Kingsley : [her parents are trying to get her to clean up her very messy room]  How can you make such a big deal out of one little messy room when this whole world is flying apart? Crime on the streets! Strontium-90 in our milk! Push-button warfare! Why, do you realize that at any moment, we might be *blasted* off the face of this earth?

  Jonathan Kingsley : All right. So we'll be blasted. But when we are, you are going with a clean room!

• Alice Kingsley : Oh, come on, Jon, you know you don't believe in spanking.

  Jonathan Kingsley : Spanking no. Strangling, Yes!

• Jonathan Kingsley : Go on you, general practitioner! Goodnight! I'm glad they passed Medicare!