Michael Robbins As Arthur Rudge (Arthur`s Best Quotes) |
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Arthur Rudge Quote # 01 |
In the On The Buses film, Olive comes back from the family planning clinic and she's found out she's pregnant...
Olive: "Oh, Arthur, the doctor said to tell my husband that he might have to go without a few of his.....little pleasures ".
Arthur: "Oh no. Whatever happens, I'm not giving up my telly! " 
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Arthur Rudge Quote # 02 |
In "Aunt Maud", Arthur comes
across Aunt Maud's dog in the hallway...
Arthur: "I opened the door, he put his paws right
up on my shoulders and started licking my face. I thought
it was Olive gone berserk! "
Olive: "Oh Arthur do you really think it was me? Come and give me a kiss"
Arthur: "No thank you, I've had enough off the dog!" 
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Arthur Rudge Quote # 03 |
In "Aunt Maud", Aunt Maud is
talking to Arthur...
Aunt Maud: "I haven't seen you since the day you
and Olive got married. It doesn't seem like nine years"
Arthur: "It does to me, mate!" 
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Arthur Rudge Quote # 04 |
Also in "Aunt Maud", Olive
enters bedroom with face-cream all over her face...
Stan: "Do you always put that stuff on your face?"
Olive: "Yeah, it's supposed to make me look
prettier"
Stan: "It does, you should use it more often"
Olive: "Arthur, why do you let Stan say things like
that to me?"
Arthur: "Because I never think of them
first!"  |
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Arthur Rudge Quote # 05 |
In "Late Again",
Mum is talking about the war and having to spend a lot of
time in air-raid shelters...
Mum: "You know, If it hadn't
been for the German bombers, Olive might never have been
born"
Olive: "Aah, did you hear that, Arthur?"
Arthur: "Yeah, Hitler had a lot to answer
for!"  |
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Arthur Rudge Quote # 06 |
In "Bon
Voyage", the family are talking about Lowestoft...
Olive: "The only thing that's
wrong with Lowestoft generally, it's too cold to wear my
bikini"
Arthur: "Of course, that's
one of the advantages of going"
Olive: "Oh yes, remember that
first time at Lowestoft when I got so sunburnt on that
first day, Arthur? I was so sore for the rest of our stay
I couldn't bear Arthur to touch me"
Arthur: "I remember that year, it was a very
good holiday!"  |
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Arthur Rudge Quote # 07 |
In "Going
Steady", Olive's wedding dress is the topic...
Olive: "My wedding dress was beautiful"
Mum: "Yes love. It did something for you. Made you look glamorous"
Arthur: "Well the veil did!"  |
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Arthur Rudge Quote # 08 |
In "Brew It
Yourself", the family are discussing soft water...
Arthur: "Soft water happens
to be rather pleasant and has got beneficial qualities"
Olive: "Oh yes. I found it gives me a very
nice complexion"
Arthur: "The water around
here can't be as soft as I thought!"
Olive: "It's a well known fact Arthur, that
soft water give you a nice complexion and hard water gives
you good teeth"
Arthur: "Well, I can only presume that you
wash your teeth in one place and your face in another!"  |
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Arthur Rudge Quote # 09 |
In the "On The
Buses" film, it's the night before Olive starts work in
the depot's canteen...
Stan: "Ere, don't forget what the inspector
said. You've got to be there at six o'clock tomorrow
morning to make tea for the early shift"
Olive: "Six in the morning? Oh Arthur, it's
hardly worth me going to bed"
Arthur: "How right you are!"  |
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Arthur Rudge Quote # 10 |
In the "On The
Buses" film, Arthur has reversed a bus into a bus stop,
knocking it over...
Jack: "I tell you what we
do. We'll lift it up and stick it back in the pavement"
Stan: "Don't talk out of the
back of your head. You need an elephant to lift this up"
Arthur: "Olive. Give 'em a
hand!"  |
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Arthur Rudge Quote # 11 |
In "Bus Drivers'
Stomach", Arthur takes one of Stan's cigarettes...
Stan: "I think you only married my sister
just to get at my fags"
Arthur: "How did you guess?"  |
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Arthur Rudge Quote # 12 |
In “Foggy Night”
When the bus has stopped in the fog Olive wants to go to
the toilet...
Stan: "What do you want bushes for, you get
outside here you'll disappear, fact you'll find it a bit
of a job finding your way back to the bus."
Olive: "Oh Arthur did you hear that? Stan
says I may not be able to find my way back to the bus."
Arthur: "Really."
Mum: "Here she might fall in
a big hole or down in a pond."
Arthur: "You're always trying to raise my
hopes"  |
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Arthur Rudge Quote # 13 |
In “The Squeeze”
, the Butlers are discussing their money troubles...
Arthur: "My motorbike needs
taxing in 2 weeks."
Mum: "You can’t have a
motorbike and a wife, something's got to go."
Arthur: "Hey perhaps you’re
right."
Stan: "We’re sorry to lose
you, love."
Mum: "Don’t say such things,
anyone would think Arthur would rather have his motorbike
than Olive."
Arthur: "Well, the bike has got it’s
attractions."  |
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Arthur Rudge Quote # 14 |
In “The Canteen Girl”,
the Butlers are discussing men fainting at women's
knees...
Mum: "Here, you won’t believe
this but when my mother was a girl, grown men used to
faint at the sight of a girls knees."
Stan: "Fella’s faint at the
sight of her knees an' all"
Olive: "Don’t be so rude.
I’ve got lovely knees haven’t I, Arthur?"
Arthur: "Yeah, very nice - they go down to
your ankles"  |
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