Jubilee (1978)

Jordan: Amyl Nitrate

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Quotes 

• Amyl Nitrite : Our school motto was "Faites vos désirs réalités"... Make your desires reality. I myself preferred the song "Don't Dream It, Be It"...

  [reading from book] 

  Amyl Nitrite : In those days, desires weren't allowed to become reality... so fantasy was substituted for them: films, books, pictures. They called it art. But when your desires become reality, you don't need fantasy, any longer, or art.

• Amyl Nitrite : Pearls are for the pure.

  Crabs : And the world's your oyster, so swallow it!

• Amyl Nitrite : I haven't danced for a long time. No one's interested in the ballet anymore. But history still fascinates me. It's so intangible. You can weave facts anywhere you like. Good guys can swap places with bad guys. You might think Richard III of England was bad, but you'd be wrong. What separates Hitler from Napoleon or even Alexander? The size of the destruction or is he nearer to us in time? Was Churchill a hero? Did he alter history for the better?

• Amyl Nitrite : Life in England these days is inflationary, but we're carrying on regardless - coping with misgovernment and idiocy on every side.

• Amyl Nitrite : My friend Mad, on the sofa, is a pyromaniac. But she thinks she's a revolutionary out to better the world. I'm not so sure.

• Mad : Who you writing this crap for, Amyl?

  Amyl Nitrite : Myself. It's a hobby. When I'm not making history, I write it.

• Amyl Nitrite : Here we are in the present - fucking great - with civilization destroyed by resentment. But since civilization itself was always fucking awfully boring for everyone, who gives a shit? We can do without it.

• Bod : My God! It's Amyl Nitrate!

  Mad : She's England's entry, for the Eurovision Song Contest.

  [laughs psychotically] 

  Mad : She's my number one!

  Amyl Nitrite : [singing]  Rule Britannia, Britannia, Britannia...