Memorable quotes for
Hope and Glory (1987) More at IMDbPro »

Grandfather George: Give him the you... know... what!
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Teacher: [jabbing at a map of the world, with the British Empire lands in pink] Pink. Pink. Pink. Pink. What are all the pink bits? Rowan.
Bill Rowen: They're ours, Miss.
Teacher: Yes. The British Empire. Arthur... what fraction of the earth's surface is British?
Arthur in Roger's Gang: Don't know, Miss.
Teacher: Anyone? Jennifer Baker?
Jennifer Baker: Two-fifths, Miss.
Teacher: Yes, two-fifths! Ours. That's what this war is all about. Men are fighting and dying to save all the pink bits for you ungrateful little twerps.
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Grandfather George: [pointing to an electrical transformer tower at the edge of his prpoerty] Look! They're coming this way: the Future on the march. I curse you, Volt, Watt and Amp!
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Clive Rowen: Billy, before I go there's something I want to tell you. You're not quite old enough, but, well...
[he produces a cricket ball]
Clive Rowen: ...it's the googly. Your hand is too small to master it, but you can make a start.
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Grandfather George: I have no friends, only relations!
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Grandfather George: You want to know why they're called Faith, Hope, Grace and Charity?
Bill Rowen: Why?
Grandfather George: Your Grandmother. She named them after the virtues I lack. That's marriage for you!
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Winston Churchhill: [on a radio broadcast] Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
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Clive Rowen: That was a googly... I taught him how, and now he turns it against me!
Grandfather George: [laughing] The law of life, cruel isn't it?
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Grandfather George: You look frustrated, Faithy. That husband of yours still can't rise to the occasion?
Faith: He's a menace. He should be locked up.
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Clive Rowen: [describing his Army duties] I'll be typing for England!
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Grace Rowan: Don't kill love. You'll regret it for the rest of your life.
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Grace Rowan: Mac, did you ever find out who Molly went off with.
Mac: Ran off with a Polish pilot. Sounds like one of those bad jokes on the wireless!
Grace Rowan: You miss her. And I know I do.
Mac: She said, "I know you love me, babe. But you never love me enough."
Grace Rowan: Not loving enough. What a terrible thing to do to someone. I suppose I did it to Clive. I, always held something back.
Mac: All better left unsaid, Grace.
Grace Rowan: You were never apart, you and Clive. He kept asking and asking. I kept waiting and waiting for you to say something. But you never did.
Mac: Clive had a job. I didn't. I couldn't. You did the decent thing, Grace.
Grace Rowan: This war, has put an end to decent things.
Mac: We can't change what's past. Not even the war can do that.
Grace Rowan: Oh we did the proper thing. But we lost love. And that's sad, Mac.
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[witnessing the birth of her nephew]
Sue Rowan: It's all wet and sticky!
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[last lines]
Bill Rowen: In all my life nothing ever quite matched the perfect joy of that moment. My school lay in ruins, the river beckoned with the promise of stolen days.
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Roger: [upon seeing his school blown up by a German rocket earlier in the morning of the first day of the new school year] Thank you, Adolf!
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Grandfather George: Ohhh, it's only a house...a ghastly one at that. They should all be burned and bombed and the builder hanged.
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Grandfather George: What can you do with four daughters? I asked myself - Four daughters! A string quartet was all I could come up with.
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