Fred Kite Quotes in I'm All Right Jack (1959)

Fred Kite: Ahhh, Russia. All them corn fields and ballet in the evening.

Fred Kite: We do not and cannot accept the principle that incompetence justifies dismissal. That is victimisation.

Fred Kite: I see from your particulars you was at college in Oxford. I was up there meself. I was at the Balliol summer school in 1946. Very good toast and preserves they give you at tea time, as you probably know.

Fred Kite: Me and my colleagues are the Works Committee. Would you mind producing your union card.

Stanley Windrush: I'm afraid I can't. It's not compulsory, is it?

Shop Steward: No, it's not compulsory. Only you've *got* to join, see?

Fred Kite: I've got to be off. I can't stay here arguing. I've got a lot to do. Report to the Executive, check up on the pickets.

Mrs. Kite: From what I can see, the only time you ever jolly well *do* any work is when you're on strike.

Fred Kite: My daughter, Cynthia. She works 'ere, spindle polishing.

Stanley Windrush: Oh, really? That room you were talking about just now. Perhaps I could pop round and have a look at it.

Mrs. Kite: [talking about their daughter Cynthia] She just wants a bit of fun.

Fred Kite: Yes, and she makes sure she gets it.

Fred Kite: My politics is a matter between my conscience and the ballot box...

Stanley Windrush: Your politics - to each according to his needs, from each as little as he can get away with. And no overtime except on Sundays, at double the rate. That's a damn fine way to build a new Jerusalem.