Alec McKuen Quotes in Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: You won't find anything edible in there.

Alec McKuen: Why not? The Chinese eat eggs over 400 years old.

Alec McKuen: [after discovering Professor Göteborg dead in his hotel room] Why didn't they tell us at the desk?

Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Hotels rarely advertise the fact that there are corpses lying around.

Alec McKuen: There'll never be a better moment than today. I'm going to tell him about our feelings for each other. He'll say yes almost inadvertently.

Jenny: Well, what if he says no, advertently?

Alec McKuen: I wonder if Madam Goetabaug will change her mind at the last moment.

Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: You make my mouth water.

Alec McKuen: Hans is tying the rope on her.

Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: I'm a fool. I should have told him to tie her to one of the mules and send her back where she belongs.

Alec McKuen: In what language would you have told him that, Sir Oliver?

Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: All right, she may be of some use in that respect. Then there's always the blessed chance the rope may break.

Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Come here, take a look.

[Alec cowers when he sees how high on the mountain they are]

Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Did you expect a flight of stairs with a red carpet?

Alec McKuen: I... I neglected to tell you, sir, I... I have a nervous fear of heights.

Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Well, you'll get over that after the first million fathoms or so.

Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Where are you eating tonight?

Alec McKuen: U-uh... this being Tuesday, I-I'm not eating.

Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Oh?

Alec McKuen: I-I find it very healthy to... to eat only every other night.

Alec McKuen: After all, we... we did hit the center of the earth.

Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: It hit us, laddie.

Hans Belker: [in Icelandic] The woman in room number 29, she said she wants to talk to you.

Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Tell him to stop jabbering and go shopping.

Alec McKuen: Uhh, what about lamps?

Hans Belker: [in Icelandic] The woman in room number 29, she said...

Alec McKuen: Ah, uh, lamps... lamps. What about... ah... picks?

Woman: Did you get your injuries when the volcano blew up, in the hot lava?

Alec McKuen: Oh no. No, it happened in Edinburgh at our wedding.

Jenny: He was in such a hurry leaving the church, he fell all the way down the steps.

Woman: Oh! You poor wee bride. After all that waiting. It's been no marriage for you at all.

Jenny: You underestimate Alec.