Maj. Philip Kirby Quotes in The Major and the Minor (1942)

Maj. Philip Kirby: Call me Uncle Philip. Do you have a nightie with you?

Susan Applegate: Yes, Uncle Philip.

Maj. Philip Kirby: Well, then, suppose you go in there and get changed.

Susan Applegate: You really think so?

Maj. Philip Kirby: Why, sure! And just sing out if you have any trouble with your buttons.

Susan Applegate: Oh, I haven't had any button trouble in a long, long time.

Maj. Philip Kirby: Anything wrong? Stomach again? How do you feel Su-Su?

Susan Applegate: So-so.

Maj. Philip Kirby: Su-Su, this is a treat that doesn't come to one girl in a million.

Susan Applegate: Does it have to come to me?

Maj. Philip Kirby: Listen, Su-Su, you like boys don't you?

Susan Applegate: What boys?

Maj. Philip Kirby: Nice boys. Can you dance?

Susan Applegate: A little.

Maj. Philip Kirby: Why don't they send me to Trinidad or the Canal Zone or Iceland? Anywhere.

Pamela Hill: Well, why not worry about that when and if there is a war?

Maj. Philip Kirby: During the first shift I happened to see her with one of the boys at the cannon and, frankly, I was worried.

Pamela Hill: For whom? The boy?

Maj. Philip Kirby: For her, of course. You can't suddenly throw a young girl among 300 cadets.

Pamela Hill: In the merry month of May.

Maj. Philip Kirby: That's why we say a girl like you is attractive.

Susan Applegate: Am I?

Maj. Philip Kirby: Oh, yes! Yes. You have very nice eyes and good straight legs and theirs a sort of glow to your hair. I was watching you in the Mess Hall this afternoon.

Susan Applegate: Were you?

Maj. Philip Kirby: Yes. That little redhead of yours is like a dandelion in a big meadow of uniforms. Well, frankly, I felt like cutting classes and taking the afternoon off and showing you around myself.

Susan Applegate: Honest?

Maj. Philip Kirby: I'll tell you something else, too. One day you're going to be a very charming young lady.

Susan Applegate: When?

Maj. Philip Kirby: Six or seven years.

Maj. Philip Kirby: Oh, if Miss Parrot could only see me now!

Susan Applegate: Miss who?

Maj. Philip Kirby: Miss Jean Parrot, my dancing teacher. I was 12 and she was 40. I had a terrific crush on her.

Susan Applegate: That's an awkward situation.

Maj. Philip Kirby: Ah, the poetry in Miss Parrot's feet demonstrating the tango.

Maj. Philip Kirby: Milk, Root Beer, Ginger Ale?

Susan Applegate: Ginger Ale!

Maj. Philip Kirby: Ginger Ale!

Susan Applegate: It looks more like champagne.

Maj. Philip Kirby: To you, Su-Su. To all my crushes.

[last lines]

Susan Applegate: You know, I have my own theory about the fall of France.

[places her finger on Maj. Kirby's lips]

Susan Applegate: Now, this is Sedan. And there was the big Maginot Line and the small Maginot line. And the German army swung through The Netherlands and Belgium. And a panzer division smacked right through here.

[Kiss]

Maj. Philip Kirby: Su-Su!

Susan Applegate: Come, Philip!

Maj. Philip Kirby: Pamela, I think you ought to talk to her. You know...

Pamela Hill: Facts of life?

Maj. Philip Kirby: Yes.

Pamela Hill: No, thank you, darling.

Maj. Philip Kirby: You know Su-Su, you're a very peculiar child.

Susan Applegate: You bet I am.