The Wind in the Willows (1995 TV Movie)

Alan Bennett: Mole

Quotes 

• Rat : [Ratty and Moley are both lost in the woods when Mole trips over a boot-scraper, then Ratty finds a doormat]  Well? Doesn't that tell you something?

  Mole : [Walking away grumpily]  Doormats tell one nothing. Doormats know their place.

• Mole : Onion sauce! Onion sauce! Clear the way!

• Grandmother : [narrating; scene show Mole in his home, whitewashing his ceiling]  Mole had been working very hard all morning, spring cleaning his little home, to the point where he had dust in his throat, and whitewash in his black fur.

  Mole : [some of the white wash from his brush drips into his eye;incomprehensible]  Bother!

  Grandmother : Spring was moving in the air above and below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lonely little place. It was a small wonder, when, suddenly...

  Mole : [fed up]  Oh bother! D'oh!

  [as he throws his whitewash brush down in a fit of frustration] 

  Mole : Oh, *BLOW*!

  Mole : [taking off his apron]  *HANG" spring-cleaning.

• [Mr. Toad has given up his obsession with gypsy caravans and began a whole brand new obsession for motor cars in short order; after a near head on collision with a speeding motorcar] 

  Mole : What are we to do with him?

  Rat : [takes out his pipe; curtly and through his teeth, while smoking his pipe]  Nothing...

  Rat : *AT* ALL!

  Toad : [imitating a motorcar]  Phoot!