The Family Way (1966)

Marjorie Rhodes: Lucy Fitton

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• Ezra Fitton : He walked through 'ere like it were a public convenience.

  Lucy Fitton : If you say that again, I won't be responsible.

  Ezra Fitton : Well there's no other way of putting it. He looked neither left nor right.

  Lucy Fitton : I've warned you.

  Geoffrey Fitton : Why so touchy, Mum?

  Lucy Fitton : 'Cos when I was a girl, I walked into a men's place by mistake. What a sight! Two lines of men, all wearing raincoats, with their stooped backs and their blooming heads sunk forward... as though they expected to be shot in the back at any moment.

• Ezra Fitton : All this reading books he does, it's not natural.

  Lucy Fitton : You wouldn't know what natural is.

  Ezra Fitton : My father always used to say if it were natural you'd see animals doing it. I never saw a horse reading.

• Ezra Fitton : It says here if the Chinese go on increasing, there'll not be enough food left to go around. Someone ought to tell them Chinese to stop it.

  Lucy Fitton : Why don't you? They might take notice.

• Lucy Fitton : Would you say there was anything odd or queer about a fellow that went on his honeymoon and took his pal with him?

• Lucy Fitton : Some men never grow up, do they?

  Liz Piper : [softly sobbing] 

  Jenny Fitton : What's up with you, Mum?

  Lucy Fitton : It's a big moment for a mother, love. A daughter's first night.

  Liz Piper : [continues sobbing]  I just can't believe she's ready about it. I feel there was so much I should have told her.

  Molly Thompson : I'll give you a couple of tips, love. Never show pleasure. You know what I mean, don't you?

  Lucy Fitton : Not that there ever is much.

  Molly Thompson : Aye, you're right there. Never actually refuse, though. It makes a man feel small. And they take it out of your housekeeping money.

• Lucy Fitton : [bitter about her husband's behavior over their honeymoon]  Every blessed morning, off they'd go, happy as sandboys, without as much as a goodbye kiss.

  Ezra Fitton : I was never one to take liberties.

  Liz Piper : But she was your wife, Mr. Fitton.

  Ezra Fitton : I know, but you can still show respect, can't you? I mean, kissing a 19-year-old girl while she's still asleep?

  Liz Piper : But she slept beside you all night...

  Ezra Fitton : I slept beside my brother Tom for years, but I never bloody kissed him!