Henry Hobson Quotes in Hobson's Choice (1954)

[first lines]

Henry Hobson: Beg pardon.

Maggie Hobson: Good job your Masons' meetings are only once a month.

Albert Prosser: Ah, shall we get to business, sir?

Henry Hobson: Young man, don't abuse a noble word.

Henry Hobson: I've noticed that if you get one marriage in a family, it goes through t'lot like meazles.

[Henry has been served a summons for trespass and damages from Beenstocks because he fell into their cellar in a drunken stupour and slept the night there]

Henry Hobson: My good class customers are not going to buy their boots from a man who's stood up in open court and had to acknowledge he was "overcome" in a public street.

Willie Mossop: D'you think it'll get in t'paper, Maggie?

Maggie Hobson: Aye, you'll see your name in t'Salford Reporter, Father.

Henry Hobson: Salford Reporter? When ruin and disaster overwhelm a man of my importance, it's reported in t'Manchester Guardian, for the whole country to read.

Willie Mossop: Ee by gum, think of that! Why, it's very near worthwhile to be ruined, for t'pleasure of reading about yourself in t'printed paper.