The Root of All Evil (1947)

Phyllis Calvert: Jeckie Farnish

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• Jeckie Farnish : I suppose everyone's a fool once in their life - after all you've got to trust something or somebody some time. Then the time comes when you find you've been living in a world all of your own. The person you thought was with you was never really there at all. I've just been fooling myself. I know where I am now Dad. All my life it's been heart over head with me in everything. Well, I'm going to turn a somersault. I'm going to forget my heart. I'm just going to use my head.

• Jeckie Farnish : There's only one unforgivable sin - poverty!

• Jeckie Farnish : All my life I've never been able to get beyond Joe Bartle until I hate and despise the very sound of his name. Let him go to Canada and stay there! I hope he never comes back! I hope he's trampled on by a moose. I don't care what happens to him.

  Farnish : Oh yes, you do...

• Jeckie Farnish : [drunkenly]  Well, we've still got a lot of take to stock...