Separate Tables (1958)

May Hallatt: Miss Meacham

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• Mrs. Railton-Bell : We want your views on Major Pollock.

  Miss Meacham : Do you? Well, my views of Major Pollock are that he's always been a crashing old bore and a wicked old fraud, and now I hear he's a dirty old man too. I'm not surprised, and, quite between these four walls, I don't give a damn.

• Miss Meacham : And what do I know of morals and ethics? Only what I read in novels. And as I only read thrillers, that doesn't amount to much.

• Mr. Fowler : The cook's acquiring a lighter touch with her pastries, don't you think?

  Miss Meacham : Not judging by the tarts we had at tea yesterday. Cannonballs! Simply cannonballs!

• Mr. Fowler : Tolerance is not necessarily a good. Tolerance of evil can itself be an evil. After all, wasn't it Aristotle who said...

  Miss Meacham : Oh, really! You've all gone on far too long about. And when you start quoting Aristotle, personally, I'm going to me room.