jules romains: 16 Movie Quotes with Audio

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1 When I speak to you please answer 'yes, doctor' or 'no, doctor'. And when you talk of me say 'the doctor did this' or 'the doctor said so and so'. It's the thing I'm most particular about. -Er, yes doctor.

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

2 Well, there's always influenza. Not the common influenza, of course, but they rather like a touch of that now and again. They think a good septic cold once a year keeps them from catching all sorts of other things.

Quote from Dr Knock (1954)

3 Try and picture to yourself a sort of crab, or a kind of octopus, or a very large spider which nibbles at you and sucks at you and little by little drains away the whole of the inside of your head.

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

4 Here in this town live some hundreds of people, a featureless, meaningless mess of humanity. What is my task? To rescue and resolve each one of them into a scientific individuality, into a medical existence of his own.

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

5 But now, like an organist at his keyboard, I pull a stop, I touch a note, and from far off, the sounds respond.

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

6 No old herb women? No white witches? -Oh, nothing like that. -Good. Then the reign of medical science can begin.

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

7 I put a man to bed. I watch. I wait. Something will come of it.

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

8 Good. Now you've nothing else to tell me? No queer religion, superstitions, orders of druids and things like that?

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

9 I'll wager they drink the water here and never give a thought to the billions of bacteria in every mouthful. -No, I'm sure they don't.

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

10 Do you suppose they even know what a microbe is? -I doubt it. Some of them may have heard the word, but I expect they think it's a sort of fly.

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)