Ernst Robinson Quotes in Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

Ernst Robinson: It's better to use your head than break your back, I always say.

Ernst Robinson: Fritz! Listen! Do you think when we get to New Guinea, *if* we ever do, there'll be any girls our age?

Fritz Robinson: By the time we get to New Guinea, we won't care *what* age they are!

Roberta 'Bertie': Do you read a lot, Fritz?

Ernst Robinson: Who, him? He practically doesn't ever read at all!

Fritz Robinson: Never really needed to. Sooner or later, Ernst tells me everything he knows.

[trying to think of a way to get off the shipwrecked boat]

Ernst Robinson: Why don't we put up a distress flag?

Father Robinson: Don't you think we look distressed enough? Ernst, anyone who sees a ship stuck on the rocks might possibly guess it's in trouble.

Fritz Robinson: What's that?

Father Robinson: That? Oh, that's a quarantine flag. Warning that there's Black Death aboard.

Ernst Robinson: How did you know that?

Father Robinson: Well *I* do a bit of reading, too, you know.

Ernst Robinson: What are you doing?

Fritz Robinson: I'll just take charge of the pistol for a while. I seem to remember it being appropriated before, when someone wanted to go back to the beach.

Ernst Robinson: You give me back my pistol!