Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
David Niven: Phileas Fogg
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Quotes
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Princess Aouda : Mr. Fogg, why must you be so... so British?
Phileas Fogg : Madame, I am what I am.
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Railway Official : There's still fifty miles of track to be laid between here and Allabahad.
Phileas Fogg : But the London newspapers announced the opening of this railway throughout.
Railway Official : That must have been The Daily Telegraph. Never would have read that in The Times.
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Phileas Fogg : And furthermore, you play an abominable game of whist. Good day, sir.
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Monsieur Gasse, Travel Agent : Monsieur! You are now addressing the second most celebrated balloonist in Europe.
Phileas Fogg : And who is the first?
Monsieur Gasse, Travel Agent : He is not available. He was, uh, buried last Tuesday.
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Sir Francis Gromarty : One thousand pounds for an elephant? It's outrageous! You've been diddled.
Phileas Fogg : Undoubtedly. But it's not often one needs an elephant in a hurry.
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Phileas Fogg : Madam, will you join me on the verandah? I understand they serve an outstanding lemon squash.
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Saloon Hostess : Never be in a hurry. You'll miss the best parts in life.
Phileas Fogg : Madam, you don't understand. I'm looking for my man.
Saloon Hostess : So am I.
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Phileas Fogg : Steward, my Thursday midday meal has always been and will always be hot soup, fried sole, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, baked potatoes, suet pudding and treacle.
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Phileas Fogg : An Englishman never jokes about a wager, sir.
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Sir Francis Gromarty : Yes, Fogg, There was a time when one could scarcely travel in this part of the country without encountering corpses. Those infamous stranglers.
Phileas Fogg : What did you say the name that sect was?
Sir Francis Gromarty : Thuggee.
Phileas Fogg : Thuggee.
Sir Francis Gromarty : Uh-huh. Individual members are known as Thugs.
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[last lines]
Phileas Fogg : My dear... I must ask you to leave these precincts at once. No woman has ever set foot in the club.
Princess Aouda : Why not?
Phileas Fogg : Because... that could spell the end of the British Empire.
[a shocked servant drops his tray, a huge portrait falls from the wall, and the curtains of the huge window draw, revealing a triumphant Passepartout standing at the window]
Ralph : This *is* the end.
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Phileas Fogg : How did you come to England?
Passepartout : In a clothes basket, sir. I escaped.
Phileas Fogg : From what?
Passepartout : Women, sir.
Phileas Fogg : A ladies' man, huh? Well, there are no women in this household.
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Andrew Stuart : You're pretty glib, Fogg, but I'd like to see you do it in 80 days.
Phileas Fogg : You're convinced that I could not?
Andrew Stuart : So much so that I'll wager £5,000 that you can't.
Phileas Fogg : Let me understand you clearly, Stuart. Are you formally challenging me to undertake a journey around the world in 80 days?
Andrew Stuart : I am, sir, and I'm prepared to back my conviction by posting my check right here and now.
Phileas Fogg : Very well, I accept.
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Phileas Fogg : An Englishman never jokes about a wager, sir.
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Phileas Fogg : My gentlemen, I have on deposit at Barings Bank the sum of £20,000. And I'm willing to wager any or all of it upon the same contention. Namely, that I can complete a tour of the world in 80 days. That is to say, 1,920 hours or 115,200 minutes. Would anyone besides Stuart care to participate?
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Phileas Fogg : Give me that red bag. Open it up. We'll need plenty of money. Whatever you do, never let this out of your sight.
Passepartout : Monsieur can trust me. I will cherish it like - like a woman.
Phileas Fogg : Don't make love to it. Just watch it.
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Phileas Fogg : You actually mean that unfortunate young woman is going to be burned alive?
Sir Francis Gromarty : Oh, she's quite resigned to it.
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Phileas Fogg : What if we decided to save her?
Sir Francis Gromarty : Good heaven, man, you can't interfere with native affairs.
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Phileas Fogg : There will be no further fiddle-faddle.
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Phileas Fogg : Would you care to hear about the time I drew a flush hand in diamonds?
Princess Aouda : If you'd care to confide in me.
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Phileas Fogg : Devil take the man. Where could he be?
Sir Francis Gromarty : Oh, chasing after some woman or other, I suppose. These foreigners, you know.
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Phileas Fogg : So I did the only decent thing a man could do.
Princess Aouda : You mean?
Phileas Fogg : Yes, I finessed my queen of hearts and forced Finch-Tattersall to sacrifice his ace. It was a tense moment, I can assure you. I wish you had seen Lord Dudley's expression. Poor fellow went dead white. Bit clean through his pipe stem.
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Phileas Fogg : I had no idea you were so keen about whist.
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Phileas Fogg : Would you care to join me on the veranda? I understand they serve an outstanding lemon squash.
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Phileas Fogg : I've told you before, do not spoil the natives.
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Phileas Fogg : Now what is the delay?
Train Conductor - San Francisco to Fort Kearney : Indians. But they're peaceful Indians. You can tell that by the peace pipes they're smoking.
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Phileas Fogg : I only smoke my own blend.
Col. Proctor Stamp : Oh, you do, do you? You don't want to befoul your lips with a plebeian cigar?
Phileas Fogg : No, it's just I'd prefer what my own tobacconist compounds for me.
Col. Proctor Stamp : Well, sweet spirits of niter, aren't you the tender bud.
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Passepartout : It's all my fault, sir. You should have caught that train and let those Indians cook me. Then everybody would have been happy.
Phileas Fogg : No. Balderdash.
Mr. Fix : What I always say is, it's an ill wind that blows no good.
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Phileas Fogg : [In pidgin English] Boss man here? Him back pretty soon?
Hong Kong Citizen : [In flawless English] I should say the probabilities are strongly against it.
Phileas Fogg : I beg your pardon. Where is Mr. Cominjee?
Hong Kong Citizen : In Holland, I believe. He amassed a considerable fortune by means I shall not attempt to describe, and has retired to Amsterdam to raise tulips.
Phileas Fogg : He might at least have left a card on his door to that effect.
Hong Kong Citizen : The gentleman was quite illiterate, sir, and moreover, he was pressed for time. He retired 10 minutes before the constables arrived.