Mind Your Language (TV Series)

No Flowers by Request (1979)

Zara Nutley: Miss Courtney

Quotes 

• Miss Courtney : [about Mr Brown]  How could he break his leg by missing just one step?

  Juan Cervantes : [pointing to a long flight of stairs]  Step he miss, top step...

• Miss Courtney : First of all, can anyone tell me what first day of the week is.

  Jamila Ranjha : Sunny day.

  Miss Courtney : No, it is not sunny day.

  Jamila Ranjha : Rainy day?

  Miss Courtney : Sunday! Repeat it, please.

  Jamila Ranjha : It, please.

  Miss Courtney : Repeat the word "Sunday"!

  Jamila Ranjha : Sunday.

• Miss Courtney : Mr Nadim, name me two seasons.

  Ali Nadim : Salt and pepper.

  Miss Courtney : Those are seasonings! Now give me the names of two of the seasons of the year.

  Ali Nadim : Oh dear me.

  Miss Courtney : Anybody?

  Chung Su-Lee : Spling time.

  Miss Courtney : Sprrring time!

  Chung Su-Lee : Sprrring time.

  Miss Courtney : Now Mr Nadim, what comes after the spring time?

  Ali Nadim : Holiday time.

  Miss Courtney : Summer time!

  Ali Nadim : Jolly good.

• Miss Courtney : Mr Papandrious.

  Maximillian Papandrious : Yes, Miss Courtney.

  Maximillian Papandrious : I don't suppose you can give me the name of any other sort of current.

  Maximillian Papandrious : Sure, black current!

  Miss Courtney : I am talking about electricity. AC is alternating current. DC is direct current.

• Miss Courtney : Mr Nagazumi.

  Taro Nagazumi : Ah so!

  Miss Courtney : What would it signify if I said you were a dog in a manger?

  Taro Nagazumi : Would seem you are crazy in the head.

  Miss Courtney : I beg your pardon!

  Taro Nagazumi : I am man-o, not dog-o!

  Miss Courtney : You are also rather stupid!

• Miss Courtney : Miss Schmidt.

  Anna Schmidt : Ya.

  Miss Courtney : You are on a train going to Glasgow.

  Anna Schmidt : Why am I going to Glasgow?

  Miss Courtney : It doesn't matter why. You want to sleep on the train. What would you ask for?

  Anna Schmidt : A bed.

  Miss Courtney : You would have a birth in the sleeping car.

  Anna Schmidt : Nein.

  Miss Courtney : Beg your pardon?

  Anna Schmidt : How can I have a birth if I'm not pregnant?

  Miss Courtney : Are you serious?

  Anna Schmidt : Ya, I save myself for when I meet Mr Right.

  Miss Courtney : For your information, Miss Schmidt, a berth, b-e-r-t-h, is the name given to a bed on a ship or a train.

  Anna Schmidt : It sure be good. You must think I am very stupid.

  Miss Courtney : That is the most sensible remark I have heard in this classroom so far!

• Miss Courtney : Mademoiselle Favre.

  Danielle Favre : Oui, Mademoiselle Courtney.

  Miss Courtney : Where is St Paul's?

  Danielle Favre : St Paul's what?

  Miss Courtney : St Paul's Cathedral!

  Danielle Favre : I do not know. It is somewhere in London, I think.

  Miss Courtney : It is in Ludgate Circus. Have you ever been to Ludgate Circus?

  Danielle Favre : No, but I have been to Bismarck's Circus!

• Miss Courtney : You are all Philistines!

  Ali Nadim : Oh No! I am Pakistan!

  Juan Cervantes : I am Spain!

• Miss Courtney : Mr Cervantes.

  Juan Cervantes : Si señora.

  Miss Courtney : What do the letters AC mean?

  Juan Cervantes : Por favor?

  Miss Courtney : What does AC mean?

  Juan Cervantes : Four.

  Miss Courtney : AC has nothing to do with four.

  Juan Cervantes : Sure, AC spade, AC heart, AC diamond, and AC the other one!

  Miss Courtney : AC means alternating current.

• Giovanni Cupello : I just speak the English so good, nobody knows I am Italian.

  Miss Courtney : I find it very hard to believe.

  Giovanni Cupello : You see! Even you don't know!