If Winter Comes (1947)

John Abbott: Mr. Twyning

Quotes 

• Mr. Twyning : I didn't tell you before. I wanted it to come as a pleasant surprise.

  Mark Sabre : Did you? Yeah. Well, it's a surprise, all right.

• Mr. Twyning : Sometimes still waters...

  [winks] 

  Mr. Twyning : You know what I mean?

  Mr. Fortune : No, Twyning, I'm afraid I do not.

  Mr. Twyning : Well, that Mrs. Tybar just popped in to see him. She come out looking all stirred up like, if you know what I mean. Didn't there used to be a spot of something there?

• Mr. Twyning : I've been thinking, sir. In all our contracts, there's a whopping long paragraph that says the whole thing's null and void if we get up to any skylarking.

  Mr. Fortune : Ah, yes. The clause covering immorality. What's on your mind?

  Mr. Twyning : Sabre.