16 Quotes by Jules Romains (Sound Clips)

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1 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)

2 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)

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

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

4 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)

5 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)

6 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.

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

7 Fifty-two next year? Well, my friend, well, well. You can work today as usual, that won't hurt you, but go to bed early.

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

8 Oh, don't imagine that you're going to die of it today or tomorrow. No, no, we can take our time.

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

9 I bought oil shares, doctor. What do you think of oil? -One of the most useful of minerals. As an investment, speculative rather. Apt to rise a little and then fall a lot, for no very apparent reason.

Robert Morley as Dr Knock in Dr Knock (1954)

10 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)

16 Quotes by Jules Romains (Sound Clips)

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