The Human Factor (1979)

Robert Morley: Doctor Percival

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• Doctor Percival : Hargreaves likes to shock. A bit naughty like that.

  Colonel John Daintry : Really?

• Colonel John Daintry : Some problems about the girl he wanted to marry.

  Doctor Percival : She was a black, wasn't she?

  Sir John Hargreaves : Is that significant?

  Doctor Percival : Did I say so?

• Doctor Percival : It might be better to shut our eyes to the whole thing. Move whose ever responsible to a backwater - and forget him.

• Doctor Percival : Never wanted to get married myself. The trout fishing is far too short as it is. And there's another thing. You haven't been with us very long or you'd know. We all live in boxes. You know, boxes. Do you know Mondrian?

  Colonel John Daintry : Someone in the firm?

  Doctor Percival : Not as far as I know. He was a painter, chappy. Boxes. All part of the same picture. Each one separate, but held in perfect balance. Everyone to his own box. You in yours, I in mine. No responsibility for the next man's box. Makes sense, you know. Just find our leak, and pass him on to the next box. No reason to lose any sleep.

  Colonel John Daintry : I wonder if the painter shares your interpretation.

  Doctor Percival : He's dead.

• Doctor Percival : I'm rather good at guessing other men's clubs. The Garrick?

  Arthur Davis : The Playgirl Show-bar.

  Doctor Percival : I'm a member of the Wig & Pen, myself. If you take me to your's, I'll take you to mine.

  Arthur Davis : Would you really like to?

  Doctor Percival : Why not? I've never been to a show-bar, tits in the martini and all that.

• Doctor Percival : The wine list in some of these Sex Clubs are a national disgrace.