Pamela Hill Quotes in The Major and the Minor (1942)

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?

Pamela Hill: The first wedding presents have arrived. We'll always have plenty of pickle forks.

Pamela Hill: Does this room always have to smell of sulphuric acid?

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.

Pamela Hill: When you felt the urge to become an Uncle, you should have found a less inflammatory niece.

Pamela Hill: A war widow with no war in sight! No! It's too idiotic.

Pamela Hill: Philip, guess who came to rescue you?

[singing]

Pamela Hill: You can't get him up, You can't get him up, You can't get him up, In the morning.

Pamela Hill: Oh, Philip, you adorable man! How utterly beguiling!

Pamela Hill: You're lunching at the Officer's Mess, Su-Su. You'll find it too beguiling.

Pamela Hill: Oh, Philip, you're too beguiling. She's perfectly all right. Lucy dried her off.

Pamela Hill: Not bad, now that your finger is out of your mouth.

Pamela Hill: Oh, glory!

Pamela Hill: Oh, good glory, 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.

Pamela Hill: Don't you think we should discuss it a little? It's rather radical.

Pamela Hill: You ought to be asleep. And Su-Su, too.