Dr Knock (1954) Quotes with Sound Clips - page 2

Dr KnockEnjoy Robert Morley's performance in the 1954 Theatre Royal radio play of Jules Romain's 'Dr Knock', and explore standout quotes on our website.

Actors: Robert Morley (Dr Knock), Sir Ralph Richardson (Host)

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11 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.

— Dr Knock (Robert Morley)

12 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.

— Dr Knock (Robert Morley)

13 Can you stand there and watch people die?

— Dr Knock (Robert Morley)

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

— Dr Knock (Robert Morley)

15 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.
16 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.

— Dr Knock (Robert Morley)

17 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.

— Dr Knock (Robert Morley)

18 A chemist who sticks to his job.
19 A doctor who hasn't got a first class pharmaceutical chemist to depend on is like a general fighting a battle without guns.
20 A farm like that now must mean a lot of work. -Oh, it does. Eighteen cows, the bull, the fat stock, there's a mare in foal, we've got goats and pigs on the poultry.

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