Petula Clark credited as playing...
Katherine Bridges
- Katie: [looking at a carving] What does that mean?
- Chips: Gnothe seauthon. Know yourself. The watchword of Apollo.
- Katie: The god of prophecy.
- Chips: Amongst other things...
- [Later at the close of the scene]
- Katie: [contemplating the temple she has visited] Know yourself. That's quite a watchword. Gnothe seauthon.
- Chips: You're most retentive.
- Katie: Give me a good line and I can remember it.
- Katie: Sorry, am I going too fast for you?
- Chips: My dear young lady, I could easily go just as fast as you if I cared to risk a broken ankle and be carried back on a stretcher. It's extremely foolish to leap around in a ruined circus like a mountain goat. Especially in those shoes. These stones are very treacherous.
- Katie: Yes, well, you're very active for your age!
- Chips: Since you cannot conceivably know what my age is, your most flattering conviction, dear Miss Bridges, must be based on a somewhat conjectural premise.
- Katie: [laughs] You've done it again. Now that's three times you've made me laugh. And only this morning I really did think I'd never laugh again. I suppose it's your being a schoolmaster.
- Chips: [insulted] I fail to see what's so laughable about that.
- Katie: Well, no, it's not laughable. One doesn't laugh at people only because they're funny. Not some people, anyway.
- Katie: No, the allusion was to the stage which used to be my profession.
- Headmaster: Indeed.
- Headmaster's Wife: You're an actress, Mrs. Chipping?
- Katie: Well, not even my best friends would call me that.
- Headmaster's Wife: [snidely] Aw, and what would they call you?
- Katie: A soubrette. That's the girl in musical comedy who sings the big number and, in the end, loses the man.
- [Chuckles]
- Katie: In real life, they nearly always end up the wives of earls. I nearly did. But luckily... I met Chips.
- Katie: Ursula, darling, you must see the bell tower. And here's your guide
- [pointing to Herr Staefel]
- Katie: .
- Ursula: The bell tower?
- [realizing Katie's unspoken intention]
- Ursula: Oh, yes, of course... the bell tower!
- [laughs]
- Ursula: [Later...]
- Max Staefel: I hope you like early English perpendicular.
- Ursula: Darling, I revel in early English perpendicular!
- Katie: I'm so terribly sorry about being late. Chips says it's almost as bad as being off your number.
- Headmaster: I'm afraid I don't quite understand that allusion, Mrs. Chipping.
- Katie: Oh, Mrs. Chipping! I just love when I'm called that.
- Headmaster: And you are that, yes?
- Katie: Oh, yes! Well and truly! Well, unless Chips is a bigamist which I rather suspect. How else could he have escaped... until now?
- Johnny Longbridge: This is Chips. I told you about him, remember?
- Katie: Of course. Hasn't he any other name?
- Johnny Longbridge: Well, if he has, I can't remember it.
- Katie: Then I'd better call you Mr. Chips. That's rather a nice name. How do you do, Mr. Chips?
- Chips: How do you do, Miss Bridges?
- Katie: What will you think of me?
- Johnny Longbridge: Nothing. Except that you're a terrible muddler of dates, that's all. And I've known that for ages.
- Katie: [singing] You can have Paris, And Venice and Rome, But London is London, Is London is England, Is home...
- Johnny Longbridge: Goodbye, Katie. Marvelous seeing you. Goodbye.
- Chips: Goodbye, Miss Bridges.
- Katie: Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
- Katie: There's nothing more awful than being bothered by somebody when you really want is to be on your own. Nobody knows that better than me. Sorry. Than I.