The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

Rita Tushingham: Penelope

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Quotes 

• Penelope : British? What a lot of use that is! We don't even know who's won the war!

• Father : She's got big busts, hasn't she, for a girl her age.

  Alan : Yeah.

  Father : Well, this bust, especially, it seems to, the nipples seem to stand out more on that one.

  Mother : Father's very observant. He was in the Corp!

  Penelope : I wish you wouldn't talk about me in front of Alan. He doesn't want to know about my busts.

  Alan : No! I do! I do!

  [Penelope smiles] 

  Mother : Shall we stop her for tea?

  Father : I hope all this family talk isn't boring you, Alan.

  Alan : No, not a bit of it.

• Nurse Arthur : What I have here, sir, is your wife's Death Certificate.

  Father : Oh, why, thank you.

  Mother : Oh, dear. There. Well, it was a lovely way to go.

  Penelope : But, Mum is alive!

  Father : I'm afraid not, dear.

  [hands Mother her Death Certificate] 

  Mother : It makes me feel all funny to read it.

• Penelope : Mum's alive!

  Mother : Well, I thought I was, dear. By rights, I should be. But, how can you tell if it's here in black and white.

  [shows Penelope her Death Certificate]