Cambridge Spies Quotes
Donald Maclean: Hullo
Melinda Maclean: Hi. You're English.
Donald Maclean: Does it show? [He gestures to his very British outfit]
Melinda Maclean: You say hello with the letter U where the letter E oughta be.
Donald Maclean: Well, you're American.
Melinda Maclean: You noticed.
Donald Maclean: You say hello with the letter I where the E and the L and the L and the O ought to be. [They both take a sip of drink]
Donald Maclean: I hate America.
Melinda Maclean: Are you gonna tell me why?
Donald Maclean: For the way you treat workers, the way you treat black people, the way you appropriate, mispronounce and generally mutilate perfectly good English words. Cigarette?
Melinda Maclean: Hi. You're English.
Donald Maclean: Does it show? [He gestures to his very British outfit]
Melinda Maclean: You say hello with the letter U where the letter E oughta be.
Donald Maclean: Well, you're American.
Melinda Maclean: You noticed.
Donald Maclean: You say hello with the letter I where the E and the L and the L and the O ought to be. [They both take a sip of drink]
Donald Maclean: I hate America.
Melinda Maclean: Are you gonna tell me why?
Donald Maclean: For the way you treat workers, the way you treat black people, the way you appropriate, mispronounce and generally mutilate perfectly good English words. Cigarette?
TV Show: Cambridge Spies
Guy Burgess: I got beaten up by a keen theatergoer, Angleton.
James Jesus Angleton: Why?
Guy Burgess: In England, when one is having a piss at the urinal, and eight urinals on either side of one are unoccupied, and a man comes in and doesn't choose to piss seven urinals away or even three urinals away but stands right bloody next to you, then it means something. And when, apropos of bugger-all, he starts up a bit of a chat about new writing in the theater, it means Bugger me, frankly. But not here, it would seem. Apparently, in this appallingly friendly country, it means nothing of the kind. It means what it is: passing pleasantries in a public lavatory in the middle of the night.
James Jesus Angleton: Why?
Guy Burgess: In England, when one is having a piss at the urinal, and eight urinals on either side of one are unoccupied, and a man comes in and doesn't choose to piss seven urinals away or even three urinals away but stands right bloody next to you, then it means something. And when, apropos of bugger-all, he starts up a bit of a chat about new writing in the theater, it means Bugger me, frankly. But not here, it would seem. Apparently, in this appallingly friendly country, it means nothing of the kind. It means what it is: passing pleasantries in a public lavatory in the middle of the night.
TV Show: Cambridge Spies