Neverwhere (1996)

Hywel Bennett: Mr. Croup

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Quotes 

• Mr. Croup : If you cut us, do we not bleed?

  Mr. Vandemaar : [pondering]  No.

• Mr. Croup : Were I you, I would no longer worry about the young lady. Her days are numbered, and the number in question isn't even in double digits.

• Mr. Croup : What do you want?

  The Marquis De Carabas : What does anybody want?

  Mr. Vandemaar : Dead things... extra teeth...

• [Answering the phone] 

  Mr. Croup : Croup and Vandemar, the Old Firm, obstacles obliterated, nuisances eradicated, bothersome limbs removed and tutelary dentistry undertaken.

• Mr. Croup : You're completely off your head.

  Mr. Vandemaar : Say the word, Mister Croup, and it'll be off his shoulders before you can say Jack Ketch.

• Mr. Croup : I am Mr Croup, and this is my Brother Mr Vandemaar.

  Richard Oliver Mayhew : Brother? Shouldn't you have the same name?

  Mr. Croup : What a brain, Mr Vandemaar! Keen and incisive. Some of us are so sharp, we could cut ourselves!

• Mr. Croup : She must be losing a lot of blood, Mr Vandemaar.

  Mr. Vandemaar : Lovely blood, Mr Croup, lovely wet blood.

  Mr. Croup : Won't be long now.

• Mr. Croup : [standing in the sewer]  With Cities as with People, Mr Vandemar, the condition of the Bowels is very important.

• Mr. Croup : Just because something is funny, does not mean that it is not also dangerous.

• Mr. Croup : [sinister]  She's all but broken our poor dear widowed Mother's heart...

• Mr. Croup : "Varney's the best Bravo and Guard in London Below. Everyone knows that..."

  Mr. Vandemaar : It's not nice to Lie, Mr Croup.

  Mr. Croup : Really, we should look on it as a mercy killing.

• Mr. Croup : [Tang Dynasty Figurine]  Look at the Colour, the Sense of Proportion! It adds a little beauty and wonder to the World!

  [Bites it] 

• Mr. Croup : He's travelled so far from Right and Wrong, he couldn't see them on a Dark Night...

• Mr. Croup : When you said you had no knowledge of the Young Lady's whereabouts, we have reason to believe you were Embroidering the Truth! More than just a little...

  Richard Oliver Mayhew : Yeah? Well you said you were her brother!

  Mr. Croup : All men are Brothers, Mr. Mayhew.

• Mr. Croup : How did you know that?

  The Marquis De Carabas : People tell me things. I'm approachable...

• Mr. Croup : We've never killed a Marquis before...

  Mr. Vandemaar : Yes we have. In York, in the XIV Century. In the rain.

  Mr. Croup : He wasn't a Marquis, he was the Earl of Exeter.

  Mr. Vandemaar : And Marquis of Westmorland.