Burke and Hare (2010)

Tom Wilkinson: Doctor Robert Knox

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Quotes 

• Doctor Monro : And your new students, are they enjoying your lectures?

  Doctor Robert Knox : Er, not as much as I understand they're enjoying your wife,sir.

• Doctor Robert Knox : That's the third rotter I've had from McTavish and his gang of grave robbers in the last three weeks.

  [sighs] 

  Doctor Robert Knox : I can't go on like this.

  Patterson : Is there anything I can do Doctor?

  Doctor Robert Knox : You could start praying, Patterson, for the one thing that could save us.

  Patterson : And what's that sir?

  Doctor Robert Knox : An enormous and awful calamity right here in Edinburgh. An accident or a - or a natural disaster. Something which generates the large numbers of cadavers I need for my work.

  Patterson : Wouldn't that be nice sir?

• Doctor Robert Knox : This man's untimely and premature death was, as should be fairly obvious to all of you, the direct result of gluttony!

  [wobbles the corpses stomach] 

• Patterson : I'm sorry to disturb you Doctor but there are two men outside to see you. They appear to have a herring barrel with them.

  Doctor Robert Knox : I have no taste for herring Patterson. Send them away.

  Patterson : I believe there's something else in the herring barrel Doctor.