Philip Calvert Quotes in When Eight Bells Toll (1971)

[Calvert comes in covered in mud and blood, having been beaten up]

Hunslett: What happened to you?

Philip Calvert: I met a wild gypsy girl in the heather.

[Uncle Arthur is discussing the work involved in dealing with the bullion robbers]

Philip Calvert: I have everybody breathing down my neck: the Admiralty, the Government, the Americans... and the insurance assessors. Grubby little men with gabardine raincoats and dandruff.

Philip Calvert: Well I don't have dandruff, Sir, if it's any consolation.

Uncle Arthur: Yes, I don't think you need demonstrate your questionable attitude to authority *quite* so early.

Philip Calvert: [trying to get past an armed guard] Now listen, you've got to distract the guard.

Sue Kirkside: [naively] How?

Philip Calvert: [starts unlacing the front of her blouse] Guess.

Sue Kirkside: [slaps him] Stop.

Philip Calvert: All I want you to do is distract that guard.

Sue Kirkside: What if he doesn't fancy me?

Philip Calvert: Oh, that's all we need - is a guard that's queer.