Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

Norman Rossington: Bert

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• Aunt Ada : He settled her though, threatened to chuck her off Trent Bridge.

  Bert : Oh aye, I'd forgot that.

  Aunt Ada : She thought it were better to settle for a quid a week out of court rather than get a good wash.

• Bert : I noticed that girl myself this morning, smashing bit of stuff. I shouldn't think she'd want aught to do with a madhead like you though.

  Arthur Seaton : They all want a good time you can bet.

• Bert : You should have been with us.

  Aunt Ada : Our Ethel clicked with a bloke and he bought us drinks all round, the whole gang of us.

  Bert : Aye, he must have got through a good 5 quid, soft bastard. Still he had a car so I suppose he could afford it.

• Aunt Ada : Them was rotten days.

  Arthur Seaton : I know, it won't happen again though, I can tell you that.

  Bert : I was talking to a bloke the other day at the pit, he's always going on you know 'you can't beat the good old days'. So I got 'old of me pick and I said to him - 'you tell me anything else about them good old days as you call them and I'll split your stupid head open' - I would too.

• Arthur Seaton : It costs too much to get married, a lump sum down and your wages a week for life.

  Bert : Most blokes ain't got aught else to work for, have they?

  Arthur Seaton : No. I have though. I work for the factory, the income tax and the insurance already, that's enough for a bit. They rob you right, left and centre. After they've skinned you dry you get called up to the army and get shot to death.

  Bert : That's how things are Arthur, no good going crackers over it. All you can do is go on working and hope that some day something good will turn up.

• Bert : Come on, what you frightened at, kiss won't hurt you.

  Betty : What do you think I am, I don't even know you.

  Bert : Well give us a kiss and then you will.

  Betty : No, get off! You men are all the same.

  Bert : I'm different.

  Betty : You don't look like that to me.

  Bert : Well I am, I think you're a little cracker.

• Bert : Did you get anywhere?

  Arthur Seaton : No, you?

  Bert : Nah, that Betty's barmy, she wouldn't let me get near her. Tell you, you've got to marry them these days before you get aught.

  Arthur Seaton : Not if they're already married.

• Bert : I don't know how that ratface could do a thing like that.

  Arthur Seaton : Cause she's a bitch and a whore, she's got no heart in her - she's a swivel-eyed git.

  Bert : She wants pole-axing.

  Arthur Seaton : Some people would nark on their mother, we're living in a jungle - we are and all. That bloke was a spineless bastard though, he should've run.

• Bert : You were born dead lucky, weren't you.

• Bert : You know I told you to lay off weeks ago, not that you took a blind bit of notice.

  Arthur Seaton : Well you've gotta enjoy yourself.

  Bert : You've got to keep your feet on the ground as well.

  Arthur Seaton : I can't see much use in that. You see people settle down and before they know where they are they've kicked the bucket.

  Bert : It ain't altogether like that.

  Arthur Seaton : No, I now. It would be though if you didn't watch it.

• Arthur Seaton : I've still got some fight left in me, not like most people.

  Bert : Not saying you ain't, but where does all this fighting get you?

  Arthur Seaton : Have you ever seen where not fighting's got you?