Margaret Rutherford: Muriel Whitchurch
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Quotes
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Muriel Whitchurch : [Looking at the Master's bookshelf] Memoirs of Casanova! Wasn't that the book we caught Jessica James reading in the closet?
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Schoolgirl : [after Victor Hyde-Brown has escorted a group of girls outside, and regaled them with a story of wartime experiences] I'd simply have adored to see you in your uniform.
Victor Hyde-Brown : Well, I looked much the same as the rest of the bunch, you know.
[Looking admiringly at some of the girls]
Victor Hyde-Brown : I say, you girls are bang-on for seventeen.
Muriel Whitchurch : [Arriving] Mr Brown, what are you doing with my senior botany?
Victor Hyde-Brown : Oh, well, I was, um, just showing them the petunias. Jolly good display this year. Bit past their best now, of course.
Muriel Whitchurch : The petunias are not alone in that respect. Will you leave us this minute?
Victor Hyde-Brown : Oh, well, I was only giving them a few hints - facts of nature, nothing else.
Muriel Whitchurch : [to the girls, as he leaves] And you girls, get back to your indoor botany at once.
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Muriel Whitchurch : Ladies, you are facing your supreme test. Remember our netball cry.
Miss Gossage : [pronouncing "Effort" as "F- it"] Effort, St Swithin's, effort.
Muriel Whitchurch : Quite so, Miss Gossage.
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[as Miss Whitchurch is showing some of her girls' parents round the school, a cupboard door opens and reveals three pin-up photographs of scantily-clad women, including two in swimming costumes and one performing a can-can high-kick]
Mrs. Ibbertson : What on earth are these doing here?
Muriel Whitchurch : Well, this is Janet Hackett, who won the 220 yards breaststroke in 1946. And this is Evelyn Forbes, who won the 100 yards freestyle in 1947. And this is Frieda Harris, our champion Morris dancer caught in mid-action.
