The Passionate Sentry (1952)

Nigel Patrick: Miles Cornwall

Quotes 

• Miles Cornwall : You look better on one leg than most of my acquaintances do on two.

• Miles Cornwall : And I might have been in Washington at the very heart of our great empire. Well, anyway, the centre of civilisation.

  Alex Cornwall : If you want to make any kind of career for yourself, the only thing that you can do is to get as far away from civilisation as possible.

• Miles Cornwall : Do they still know how to make glasses in Waterford?

  Christine Deed : They know how to empty them!

• Miles Cornwall : You're paid to keep people out of this Palace - not bring them into it!