Mind Your Language (TV Series)
No Flowers by Request (1979)
Zara Nutley: Miss Courtney
Quotes
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Miss Courtney : [about Mr Brown] How could he break his leg by missing just one step?
Juan Cervantes : [pointing to a long flight of stairs] Step he miss, top step...
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Miss Courtney : First of all, can anyone tell me what first day of the week is.
Jamila Ranjha : Sunny day.
Miss Courtney : No, it is not sunny day.
Jamila Ranjha : Rainy day?
Miss Courtney : Sunday! Repeat it, please.
Jamila Ranjha : It, please.
Miss Courtney : Repeat the word "Sunday"!
Jamila Ranjha : Sunday.
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Miss Courtney : Mr Nadim, name me two seasons.
Ali Nadim : Salt and pepper.
Miss Courtney : Those are seasonings! Now give me the names of two of the seasons of the year.
Ali Nadim : Oh dear me.
Miss Courtney : Anybody?
Chung Su-Lee : Spling time.
Miss Courtney : Sprrring time!
Chung Su-Lee : Sprrring time.
Miss Courtney : Now Mr Nadim, what comes after the spring time?
Ali Nadim : Holiday time.
Miss Courtney : Summer time!
Ali Nadim : Jolly good.
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Miss Courtney : Mr Papandrious.
Maximillian Papandrious : Yes, Miss Courtney.
Maximillian Papandrious : I don't suppose you can give me the name of any other sort of current.
Maximillian Papandrious : Sure, black current!
Miss Courtney : I am talking about electricity. AC is alternating current. DC is direct current.
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Miss Courtney : Mr Nagazumi.
Taro Nagazumi : Ah so!
Miss Courtney : What would it signify if I said you were a dog in a manger?
Taro Nagazumi : Would seem you are crazy in the head.
Miss Courtney : I beg your pardon!
Taro Nagazumi : I am man-o, not dog-o!
Miss Courtney : You are also rather stupid!
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Miss Courtney : Miss Schmidt.
Anna Schmidt : Ya.
Miss Courtney : You are on a train going to Glasgow.
Anna Schmidt : Why am I going to Glasgow?
Miss Courtney : It doesn't matter why. You want to sleep on the train. What would you ask for?
Anna Schmidt : A bed.
Miss Courtney : You would have a birth in the sleeping car.
Anna Schmidt : Nein.
Miss Courtney : Beg your pardon?
Anna Schmidt : How can I have a birth if I'm not pregnant?
Miss Courtney : Are you serious?
Anna Schmidt : Ya, I save myself for when I meet Mr Right.
Miss Courtney : For your information, Miss Schmidt, a berth, b-e-r-t-h, is the name given to a bed on a ship or a train.
Anna Schmidt : It sure be good. You must think I am very stupid.
Miss Courtney : That is the most sensible remark I have heard in this classroom so far!
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Miss Courtney : Mademoiselle Favre.
Danielle Favre : Oui, Mademoiselle Courtney.
Miss Courtney : Where is St Paul's?
Danielle Favre : St Paul's what?
Miss Courtney : St Paul's Cathedral!
Danielle Favre : I do not know. It is somewhere in London, I think.
Miss Courtney : It is in Ludgate Circus. Have you ever been to Ludgate Circus?
Danielle Favre : No, but I have been to Bismarck's Circus!
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Miss Courtney : You are all Philistines!
Ali Nadim : Oh No! I am Pakistan!
Juan Cervantes : I am Spain!
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Miss Courtney : Mr Cervantes.
Juan Cervantes : Si señora.
Miss Courtney : What do the letters AC mean?
Juan Cervantes : Por favor?
Miss Courtney : What does AC mean?
Juan Cervantes : Four.
Miss Courtney : AC has nothing to do with four.
Juan Cervantes : Sure, AC spade, AC heart, AC diamond, and AC the other one!
Miss Courtney : AC means alternating current.
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Giovanni Cupello : I just speak the English so good, nobody knows I am Italian.
Miss Courtney : I find it very hard to believe.
Giovanni Cupello : You see! Even you don't know!