John Mills credited as playing...
Ezra Fitton
- [last lines]
- Ezra Fitton: It's life, lad. It might make you laugh at your age, but one day it'll make you bloody cry!
- 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: [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!
- Molly Thompson: Oh, there's some life in you, Mr Fitton.
- Ezra Fitton: I can still lick some of the young 'uns.
- Molly Thompson: [on the dancefloor] You're squeezing me to death, Mr Fitton.
- Ezra Fitton: Aye. Lovely, isn't it?
- Molly Thompson: Ooh!
- Ezra Fitton: There's four Russians and a monkey walking out there now.
- Arthur Fitton: Walking out where?
- Ezra Fitton: Well, where do you think? Outer space.
- Ezra Fitton: I knew a fella once who was always reading. What happened? His brain seized up.
- Lucy Fitton: There's one thing won't happen to you.
- Lucy Fitton: If a lad can't love his own mother, he can't love anybody, 'cause that's where love starts: at the breast.
- Ezra Fitton: Lucy, I wish you wouldn't use words like that in mixed company.
- Lucy Fitton: [to Liz Piper] Just listen to him. Bottle-fed. His mother told me the milk had run out when he arrived.
- Ezra Fitton: I won't have him walking through this house like it were a public convenience.
- Lucy Fitton: Don't be so vulgar.
- Ezra Fitton: He walked through here like it were a public convenience.
- Lucy Fitton: Don't say things like that at the tea table.