The Pirates of Penzance (1994 TV Movie)
Derek Metzger: Major-General Stanley
Quotes
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Major-General Stanley : I am the very bottle of a Perrier that's mineral!
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The Pirate King : [after "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General"] Very, very good.
Major-General Stanley : Thank you very much.
The Pirate King : Umbrella balancing on the chin... We like the medals too, don't we?
[Pirates nod]
Major-General Stanley : Yes, I got those on the frontier.
The Pirate King : Oh, really?
Major-General Stanley : Yes, I had two on the back here, but they fell off.
The Pirate King : Oh, well, never mind. Do some more, will you?
Major-General Stanley : "More"? Silly man, there isn't any more.
The Pirate King : No, no, no! We want some more! Make something up!
[Turns to the Conductor]
The Pirate King : Both of you!
Major-General Stanley : Don't be ridiculous!
[the Pirates point their swords at him]
Major-General Stanley : Oh! Steady on, steady on! Feisty fellow...
[to Conductor]
Major-General Stanley : Something... ridiculous... for the fellow in the purple pants.
Conductor : What tempo would you like it, sir?
Major-General Stanley : Tempo?
Conductor : Yes.
Major-General Stanley : I think we better do it quickly.
Conductor : Could we have that in Italian, please?
Major-General Stanley : Italian?
Conductor : Yes.
Major-General Stanley : Espresso cappuccino.
[Music starts again]
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Major-General Stanley : I would go to their tall, simple-minded, galavanting, purple-panted... yet strangely attractive... chief this very night and confess all!
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Major-General Stanley : I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I have information seminal and cultural and federal and regional and functional and fictional and textural, abominididible... abdomininibible... I can't say that word... "terrible"... scriptural, confessional and sexual. Sorry, slipped out.
[to Frederic]
Major-General Stanley : hey, get away from my daughter will you?... Disgusting.
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Major-General Stanley : I assure you, Frederic, that such is the anguish and remorse I feel at the abominininibible... at the abdomininibib... such is the anguish and remorse I feel at the... abominable...
Mabel Stanley : "Snowman"?
Major-General Stanley : No! The abominable...
Frederic : "Falsehood"!
Major-General Stanley : Yes! "Falsehood," thank you, Frederic... by which I escaped these easily deluded pirates, that I would go to their tall, simple-minded, gallivanting, purple panted... yet strangely attractive... chief and confess all!
