Alison Smith Quotes in A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Thomas Colpeper, JP: [hidden in the tall grass] Glorious, isn't it?

Alison Smith: [startled] Is anybody there?

Thomas Colpeper, JP: [standing] It's a real voice you heard. You're not dreaming.

Alison Smith: You know, just now I - I heard sounds.

Thomas Colpeper, JP: What sounds did you hear?

Alison Smith: Horses' hooves, voices, and a lute. Or an instrument like a lute. Did you hear anything?

Thomas Colpeper, JP: Those sounds come from inside, not outside. Then only when you're concentrating, when you believe strongly in something. Just now I was concentrating on who was coming up the hill to disturb me.

Alison Smith: Disturb you? At what?

Thomas Colpeper, JP: Breathing the air, smelling the earth, watching the clouds. Why don't you sit down?

Alison Smith: Did you hear the news about last night Mr. Horton?

Jim Horton: There wasn't nothing on the wireless.

Alison Smith: No I didn't mean that sort of news. I meant what happened here last night.

Ned Horton: We get all our local news at 6 o'clock, Miss.

Bob Johnson: You got a local newspaper?

Ned Horton: No. That's when the pub opens.

Prudence Honeywood: That's your room. You won't get much of a view I'm afraid.

Alison Smith: You should have seen the view from my room in London.

Prudence Honeywood: Was it a long street with every house a different sort of sadness in it?

Alison Smith: It was a long row of back gardens, and the tall, sad houses were all the same.

Prudence Honeywood: Ghastly in winter.

Alison Smith: Airless in summer. You seem to know them.

Prudence Honeywood: The only man who ever asked me to marry him wanted me to live in a house like that. I'm still a maid.