The Blue Bird (1940)
Russell Hicks: Daddy Tyl
Quotes
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Daddy Tyl : How many times have I told you, Mytyl? Not to trap birds in the woods.
Mytyl : But, daddy! It's such fun!
Daddy Tyl : It's not much fun for the bird.
Mytyl : But, I need it!
Daddy Tyl : What for?
Mytyl : To sing for us... What do you think, mommy? Angela Berlingot wanted me to give it to her.
Mummy Tyl : Well, why didn't you? It'd be something to cheer her up. Poor mite, sick in bed all winter.
Mytyl : It's not my fault, she's sick.
Mummy Tyl : Well, it's your fault, you're selfish.
Daddy Tyl : You have so much that she hasn't, Mytyl.
Mytyl : What have I got?
Daddy Tyl : Health for one thing: to run free and play.
Mytyl : Oh, that isn't anything.
Daddy Tyl : Oh? Isn't it?
Tyltyl : I wouldn't like to stay in bed all day.
Mytyl : I wouldn't mind.
Mummy Tyl : That'll do, Mytyl. Stop talking and eat your supper.
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Mytyl : Mommy?
Mummy Tyl : What is it, Mytyl?
Mytyl : Why do we have to be so poor all the time?
Mummy Tyl : Poor? Us?
Mytyl : Well, we are. We can't even have a party for Christmas.
Daddy Tyl : You have a roof over your head, haven't you? And warm clothes.
Mytyl : These old things?
Daddy Tyl : And plenty to eat.
Mytyl : Nothing I like, nothing good! Not like those rich children have... Cakes, candies, dolls to play with, pretty dresses, everything... I have nothing!
Mummy Tyl : That's not true, dear. You have lots of things.
Mytyl : What?
Mummy Tyl : You have a father who works for you.
Daddy Tyl : And a mother who cooks and cleans and mends.
Mytyl : What's that? When other people has to much more? Big houses, servants, carriages that drive them... and look at us! Look at this old place!
Mummy Tyl : Stop it, Mytyl! Stop it, at once! You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Mytyl : I'm not ashamed, I hate it! I hate it all!
Daddy Tyl : Be quiet!
Mummy Tyl : One more word for you, you'll go straight to bed. You're ungrateful child.
Mytyl : I don't care!
Mummy Tyl : Thoughtless, thankless.
Mytyl : [begins to cry] I'm so unhappy.
Mummy Tyl : Well, of course you're unhappy. If you don't mend your ways, you'll never be happy. Never.
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Mytyl : Oh Daddy, I don't want you to go.
Daddy Tyl : I have to go, darling.
Mytyl : Why do they have to have war? What makes war, anyway?
Daddy Tyl : The same things that make trouble everywhere. Greed. Selfishness. Those who aren't content with what they have.
Mytyl : But you're not like that, Daddy. Why should you have to go?
Daddy Tyl : That's what's wrong about it, Mytyl. You can't be unhappy inside yourself without making others unhappy, too.
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Mummy Tyl : There's something wrong with these children. They must have eaten something last night that disagreed with them.
Daddy Tyl : Well, they look all right to me.
Mummy Tyl : But they've been talking such nonsense! About seeing their grandparents!
Mytyl : But we did, Daddy! We really did!
Tyltyl : But we're home now.
Mytyl : And we missed you so!
Daddy Tyl : You mean you're going to miss me when I go to war.
Mytyl : Oh. I had forgotten about that.