The Way Ahead (1944)

Stanley Holloway: Pte. Ted Brewer

Quotes 

• Pvt. Ted Brewer : Only one good man ever got into Parliament.

  Pvt. Herbert Davenport : Oh really? Who?

  Pvt. Ted Brewer : Bleedin' Guy Fawkes.

• Pte. Luke : Oh well. I've come to a conclusion.

  Pvt. Ted Brewer : What's that?

  Pte. Luke : I don't like the army.

• Pvt. Ted Brewer : Talk about the mysterious east. I reckon the Lyons Cornerhouse Coventry Street's got more mystery than this place.

• Pvt. Ted Brewer : We're going to have a war? Right. Let 'em start one now. Let 'em get on with it. Let us get home early to our supper for once in a change.

• Pvt. Ted Brewer : I can't understand it - the government puts up walls with broken glass on top to protect its property, then trains blokes to get across it, at its own expense.

  Pte. Luke : At our expense, man. We're just cogs in a great machine - we pay for our own discomfort.

  Pvt. Herbert Davenport : These living conditions are most insanitary!

  Pte. Sid Beck : Not if we keep all the doors and windows open.

  Pvt. Herbert Davenport : I can't sleep with the windows open!

  Pte. Bill Parsons : How is your stomach, Mr Davenport?

  Pvt. Herbert Davenport : Acute.

  Pte. Bill Parsons : Hmmmm. That'll be the worry.

  Pte. Luke : It's your bowels. Driving a tractor for a week would it right for you.

  Pvt. Herbert Davenport : Are you a farmer, then?

  Pte. Luke : I wouldnae be here if I was. I worked on a farm though. They have a lassie doing my job now.

• Pvt. Herbert Davenport : [unimpressed with the entertainment]  Who are these people?

  Pvt. Ted Brewer : The Pollocks.

• Buster - Marjorie's Boyfriend : Been in long?

  Pvt. Ted Brewer : Seven weeks. Seems like years.

  Buster - Marjorie's Boyfriend : I know.

  Pte. Geoffrey Stainer : What are you in? Bombers?

  Buster - Marjorie's Boyfriend : No, fighters.

  Pvt. Ted Brewer : On leave?

  Buster - Marjorie's Boyfriend : Sick leave.

  Pte. Evan Lloyd : You're lucky. We could do with a bit of that. How did you wangle it?

  Pte. Luke : Really sick, eh?

  Buster - Marjorie's Boyfriend : Well, shot up a bit.