'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)
Arthur Hambling: Jordan
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Quotes
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Jordan : You're late.
Professor Horatio Smith : Late for what?
Jordan : Your lecture, sir.
Professor Horatio Smith : Oh, don't be ridiculous. My lecture isn't till Friday.
Jordan : But today IS Friday, sir.
Professor Horatio Smith : Good heavens. How extraordinary. W-w-what happened to Thursday?
Jordan : We had it yesterday, sir.
Professor Horatio Smith : Did we?
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Professor Horatio Smith : Jordan! Jordan!
Jordan : Yes, sir.
Professor Horatio Smith : Jordan, you're nothing better than a vandal - a Goth. A spiritual descendant of the Huns, whose primary object was the desecration of beauty.
Jordan : I wouldn't know what you mean, sir - not without a dictionary.
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Professor Horatio Smith : Yours is the unique privilege of looking after the fairest goddess of them all. The one sublime woman. And how do you treat her? Look, man - look!
[he points to a spot of dust on the statue]
Jordan : Sorry, sir. As a matter of fact, I'm very fond of Aphrodite. Very fond. But there's so many of 'em.
Professor Horatio Smith : So many of 'em?
Jordan : Well, in a manner of speaking, there are, aren't there, sir?
Professor Horatio Smith : There's only one woman like this. Look at the symmetry! Look at the grace! Look at... look at the dust, Jordan.