Swallows and Amazons Quotes

Mrs. Jackson: [to Mrs Walker]If life were always early to bed, we'd never learn owt.

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John Walker: [Reading telegram]Better Drowned Than Duffers. If Not Duffers Won't Drown

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Mrs. Walker: I don't want them frightened of the world.

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Lazlov: You need to watch where you're going. Or you might not get there.

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Roger Walker: Where is father's ship?
Mrs. Walker: Hong Kong.
Roger Walker: Where's Hong Kong?
Susan Walker: The South China Sea.
Roger Walker: Where's the South China Sea?
Susan Walker: South of China.

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Nancy Blackett: Shut up, you donkey.

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Mrs. Jackson: No wonder he's single. Even his own sister finds him impossible. Who knows what's going on in that boat? Something fishy, and I don't mean with nets.

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Miss Crummock: Back from your travels, Mr Turner?
Captain Flint: Full marks for observation.
Miss Crummock: Leningrad, wasn't it? That's in Russia, isn't it? Is that because that's where Lenin came from? Did you ever meet him? You go there a lot. Anyone would think you had a woman there.

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Captain Flint: It takes a brave man to pull the trigger... but it takes an even braver man not too

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Roger Walker: [on his sister gutting a fish]Your making a real dogs dinner of it
Tatty Walker: [on the cut up fish]It looks like Vickie's sick

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Lazlov: Flying that's the future mister Turner
Captain Flint: Well call me a dinosaur but I prefer travel to be more down to earth

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Captain Flint: I object to weapons that can wipe out whole cities
Lazlov: Well I'm afraid neither of us is in charge of what our governments do

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