This Above All (1942)

Joan Fontaine: Prudence Cathaway

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• Clive Briggs : [Listening to the German bombardment]  Don't worry. They're not going to waste bombs on a WAAF camp.

  Prudence Cathaway : Why not?

  Clive Briggs : My girl, don't you realize that a big bomb costs a thousand pounds? We could go around the world on the price of one bomb!

• Prudence Cathaway : If anyone asks me what England is, he robs me of an answer because what it is can't be spoken about. If you do it's like tearing apart a flower to analyse it.

• Prudence Cathaway : [referring to Britain's involvement in the War]  It's too late to doubt or question. We're in it now, and we've got to go on!

• Prudence Cathaway : [to Aunt Iris]  When you and Uncle Wilfred talk, I seem to hear words oozing from the holes of a moth eaten sofa.

• Prudence Cathaway : But I don't want to be an officer until I've learned to be a private.