This Happy Breed (1944)

Alison Leggatt: Aunt Sylvia

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• Aunt Sylvia : She's nothing but an annoying, mischief-making old cat. If I have any more of it, old as she is, I'll slap her face until her teeth rattle.

• Mrs. Flint : I suppose you didn't think to remember my peppermints.

  Aunt Sylvia : Yes, I did. In my bag. Here.

  Mrs. Flint : Well, thank heaven for small mercies.

• Aunt Sylvia : No peace for the wicked.

• Aunt Sylvia : I'll take my tea up with me.

  Ethel Gibbons : That's right, dear. Nothing like a nice cup of tea in bed.

• Aunt Sylvia : I tell you, I'm sick of it! Morning, noon and night it's the same thing! She's at me all the time, and I won't stand it. I've got as much right to be in this house as she has. Just because she's old and pretends her heart's weak, she thinks she can say what she likes. I tell you one thing here and now, and that is I've had enough trouble and sorrow and suffering in my life without having to put up with her eternal, nagging and nasty insinuations! She's nothing but a spiteful, mischief-making, old cat! If I have any more of it, old as she is, I'll slap her face till her teeth rattle!

• Ethel Gibbons : Oh, Mrs. Baker and Miss Whitney have just come out of number 12. Got up to kill, they are.

  Aunt Sylvia : Mrs. Whitney, stuck-up thing.

• Aunt Sylvia : I had those pains again in the night, Ethel. Something terrible, they were. Started about 2:00.

  Mrs. Flint : It's all those sweets you eat. There's nothing like sweets for giving you wind.

  Aunt Sylvia : It was not wind!

• Mrs. Flint : I'm sure I hope nothing dreadful's happened to them.

  Vi : Oh, Granny, what could have?

  Mrs. Flint : Accidents will happen.

  Aunt Sylvia : Some people seem to think of nothing but horrors. Morbid, that's what it is.

  Mrs. Flint : I'll thank you not to call me names, Sylvia Gibbons.

• Frank Gibbons : I've seen something today that I wouldn't believe could happen in this country. I've seen thousands of people - British people, mark you - carrying on like maniacs, shouting and cheering with relief for no other reason but that they've been thoroughly frightened. And it made me sick and that's a fact. And I only hope to goodness we've got guts enough to learn one lesson from this and we shall never find ourselves in a position again where we have to appease anybody.

  Aunt Sylvia : All you men ever think about is having guts and being top dog and killing each other. I'm a woman. I don't care how much we appease so long as we don't have a war. War is wicked and evil and vile. Them that live by the sword shall die by the sword. It's more blessed to give than to receive.

  Frank Gibbons : Well, I don't think it's more blessed to give in than receive a nice kick in the pants for doing it.