English Teacher Quotes in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

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English Teacher Quotes:

  • English Teacher: [speaking very slowly] In... what... way... does the author's use of the prison

    [takes chalk and draws prison bars through the word 'prison' on blackboard]

    English Teacher: symbolize the protagonist's struggle, and how does this relate to our discussion of the uses of irony?

  • English Teacher: [written on a blackboard and spoken out loud] Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

    Cereal Killer: Ozzy Osbourne

    English Teacher: Name?

    Cereal Killer: uhh... Emanuel Goldstein, sir.

    English Teacher: You, however, are not on my list.

    Cereal Killer: Whoa! This isn't woodshop class?

  • English Teacher: Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.

    Dade Murphy: Ginsberg.

    English Teacher: Nice, very nice.

  • Kate Libby: 'God gave men brains larger than dogs so they wouldn't hump women's legs at cocktail parties.' - Ruth Libby.

    English Teacher: I'm not sure your mother counts as a significant author of the 20th century.

    Kate Libby: Her last book sold 2 million copies.

  • [the English teacher questions Willie and Phil about not doing their homework]

    English Teacher: Willie, will you give us a synopsis of 'Catcher in the Rye'?

    Willie: [Willie first speaks in his alien language] 'Catcher in the Rye', a novel written by the Earthling Salinger that every adolescent Homo Sapien in America is forced to read.

    English Teacher: You didn't read it, did you?

    Willie: Our mission on your planet is to study human behavioral patterns.

    Phil: Last night, we simulated a daily teenage ritual, homework avoidance. We consumed large quantities of fermented hops and were transformed into degenerate party animal head bangers.

    [Willie laughs in his alien language]

  • [the English teacher gives Willie and Phil a hard time about not reading Catcher in the Rye]

    English Teacher: I don't care what planet you two are from, you've been pulling this routine for three years. You'll be here another year if you don't straighten out. I want that homework now!

    Willie: The Earth woman seems so tense. Irritable. Too much coffee.

    Phil: Not enough sex.

    [as the two continue to talk in their alien language]

  • English Teacher: Today no need to know how to ask for directions or a room with a bath; today we must know how to spell 'Thomas Hardy'.

  • English Teacher: Last and simple question. Where is the father?

    Rene: Ze fazer...

    English Teacher: No. The father.

    Rene: Ze fazer.

    English Teacher: No, the tip of the tongue between the teeth. As if you had a lisp. Father.

    Rene: Fazer.

    English Teacher: No.

    Rene: But I can't, sir. Not everybody has a tongue like yours.

  • Rachel Lang: I don't think that I believe in it.

    English Teacher: Believe in what?

    Rachel Lang: Love.

    English Teacher: Then you have bigger problems than passing this class.

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