My Brilliant Career (1979)

Peter Whitford: Uncle Julius

Quotes 

• Uncle Julius : I see that Furlow's bought himself a very fine bull.

  Sybylla : He should make a few cows happy!

• Uncle Julius : By George, you're a good looking young lady.

  [kisses Sybylla on the lips] 

  Uncle Julius : You've changed, no doubt about that.

  Sybylla : You haven't. Your kisses still smell of whiskey and cigars.

  Uncle Julius : That's what makes me irresistible.

• Uncle Julius : She should be an actress.

  Grandma Bossier : [disgustedly]  Are you suggesting my granddaughter should be an actress?

  Uncle Julius : She has a talent for it! I can introduce her to...

  Grandma Bossier : *Go* on the stage? I'd rather see her with her hair shorn off and shut up in a convent! Don't *ever* mention the subject again.

• Sybylla : Oh, I can give you a song.

  [singing] 

  Sybylla : There were three drunken maidens from the Isle of Wight, They drunk from Sunday morning, not stopped 'til Saturday night, Then Saturday did come around, the girls, they wouldn't go home, And those three drunken maidens, pushed the jug about.

  Uncle Julius : Where on earth did you learn that?

  Sybylla : In a Pub, of course.

  [laughs] 

• Uncle Julius : Our Sybylla appears to have hidden talents.

  Aunt Helen : The only trouble is - you don't know what she'll do next.

  Harry Beecham : I seem to recall, she was always like that.

• Grandma Bossier : From what I hear, Julius, last night was little short of a bacchanalian debauch!

  Uncle Julius : What? Who told you that, Mother? Ask Helen?

  Grandma Bossier : She has one of the sick headaches.