Doctor Robert Knox Quotes in Burke and Hare (2010)

Doctor Robert Knox: That's the third rotter I've had from McTavish and his gang of grave robbers in the last three weeks.

[sighs]

Doctor Robert Knox: I can't go on like this.

Patterson: Is there anything I can do Doctor?

Doctor Robert Knox: You could start praying, Patterson, for the one thing that could save us.

Patterson: And what's that sir?

Doctor Robert Knox: An enormous and awful calamity right here in Edinburgh. An accident or a - or a natural disaster. Something which generates the large numbers of cadavers I need for my work.

Patterson: Wouldn't that be nice sir?

Doctor Monro: And your new students, are they enjoying your lectures?

Doctor Robert Knox: Er, not as much as I understand they're enjoying your wife,sir.

Patterson: I'm sorry to disturb you Doctor but there are two men outside to see you. They appear to have a herring barrel with them.

Doctor Robert Knox: I have no taste for herring Patterson. Send them away.

Patterson: I believe there's something else in the herring barrel Doctor.

Doctor Robert Knox: This man's untimely and premature death was, as should be fairly obvious to all of you, the direct result of gluttony!

[wobbles the corpses stomach ]