This Above All (1942)

Tyrone Power: Clive Briggs

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Quotes 

• 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!

• Clive Briggs : A man must have integrity. He's not entitled to free thought unless he's willing to pay the price of admitting it. Dare not admit what I believe, then I have no right to believe it

• [last lines] 

  Clive Briggs : This above all, to thine own self be true.

• Clive Briggs : They must have believed in those days - really and truly believed. No one has that kind of faith today.

  Rector : Are you sure? Perhaps you're only speaking for yourself.

• Clive Briggs : Well, this has been a great day. Crowded out of a tea shop; shut out of a cinema; thrown out of a hotel; and turned out of a bus. One feels the warm heart of England.

• Clive Briggs : How can you have faith in a thing when your reason tells you that you can't believe it?