Melody (1971)

Jack Wild: Ornshaw

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Quotes 

• Daniel : I've got to dance with her.

  Ornshaw : You're mad! What do you want to do that for? She'll only say "Buzz off." She's like that. This whole girl-nonsense is rubbish. Girls are a bunch of snot-nosed little so-and-so's.

• [in the school office about to get "slippered"] 

  Mr. Dicks : Now, why are you here, Ornshaw?

  Ornshaw : Because you invited me, sir.

  Mr. Dicks : And why did I invite you, Ornshaw?

  Ornshaw : Well, because I couldn't translate the latin, sir.

  Mr. Dicks : Why, Ornsahw? WHY?

  Ornshaw : Because it's a bloody silly out-of-date language do you mean, sir?

  Mr. Dicks : Two was it, Ornhsaw... I think we'll make it four...

  [trying to hold his temper] 

  Mr. Dicks : ...and why do you think it's a... silly out-of-date language, Ornshaw?

  Ornshaw : Well, because I couldn't speak to a dead roman even if I knew the bloody lingo, sir!

• Ornshaw : Some people are winners and some people are losers.

  Daniel : Who says who's gonna be what?

  Ornshaw : Don't ask me, that's all done before we get on this earth. I mean, it's him up there. He says, "You, you're gonna be red-hot at the triple jump, and you, you're gonna be bloody useless!"