Norman Rossington Quotes

Norm Are you listening to me, Lennon?

John You're a swine. Ain't he George?

George Yeah, a swine.

Norm Thanks. Hey!

Beatles WHO'S THAT LITTLE OLD MAN?

Norm Well, who is he?

Ringo He belongs to Paul.

Norm Oh, well.

Lord Cardigan Sarn't Major.

TSM Corbett Sir.

Cardigan I want a report, a report of any conversation Captain Nolan has with other officers. You are to take note of whatever he might say and bring the information to me.

TSM Corbett I shall spy, my lord?

Cardigan You shall.

TSM Corbett My lord-- My lord, to be asked to take up the spy-- I am much distressed to be asked such a thing, my lord. After twenty years of coming up from private trooper...keeping off the ]...not a drop since corporal. I shall inform Captain Nolan. I-- I can hardly do other.

Cardigan Sarn't Major, it is better that you take a ball and put it in your own brain. You are finished, now, as if you had not ever been made. What a waste.

TSM Corbett This is all according to the ]. I was drunk at my post. It is not my place to criticise. But it will have a grave effect on the non-commissioned officers, for it will show there is a slender thread. One slip, and a man is deprived of what has taken years of steady effort to obtain.

TSM Corbett ]. Flanders. ]. ]. Ah! And escort to ] on the occasion of his wedding, after which he called us His Own. God bless him! Our dress is bright and warm. Out mounts is mastered and mannered, gentle in ride...calm in battle, and our officers just whisper, they being of the opinion, like to myself, that more can be done glorious by leading from the front than can ever be brought off by prods up the arse from the rear! Hold your head up, sir! I believe you would look a rare treat in stable dress. Are you respectable?

Mitchell I've often thought of enlisting.

TSM Corbett I thought you had, by the fine way you carry yourself.

Metcalfe I'm a bad character, just out of gaol!

TSM Corbett In that case, you've already served Her Majesty! Lord Cardigan's Cherrybums -- follow me!

Norm Shake, that that wig off, it suits you.

Shake I'm with them. I'm, uh, Ringo's sister.

TV Director Get me a bottle of milk and some tranquilizers. I see it all now, it's a plot... a plot...

Riding-master Mogg What is the condition of them?

TSM Corbett They're all wobbly-boned. Recruits in England are mostly wobbly and ill-formed.

Mogg Ah, but there is no such thing as a wobbly hofficer. What you sergeants will never seem to understand is the state of responsibility that an hofficer is in. They worry. They ardly never wobble.

Norm This is a battle of nerves between John and me.