Journey's End Flashcards
Osborne: “I know. …
“I know. There’s nothing worse than dirt in your tea”
Trotter: “war’s bad…
“war’s bad with pepper - but without pepper - it’s - it’s bloody awful”
Osborne: “The time…
” ‘The time has come’ the Walrus said, ‘To talk of many things’ “
Trotter: “ I ‘ad…
” I ‘ad a decent little grass plot in front, with flower-borders, geraniums, lobelia […]”
Raleigh: “How fright…
“How frightfully quiet it is!”
Raleigh: “It seems…
“It seems uncanny. It makes me feel we’re - we’re all just waiting for something”
Stage directions: “Through…
“Through the stillness comes the low rumble of distance guns.”
Stanhope: “Dear…
“Dear old uncle. Tuck me up”
Osborne: “I love…
“I love that fellow. I’d go to hell with him”
Stanhope: “Another…
“Another little worm trying to wriggle home”
Stage directions “The shock…
“The shock stabs out the candle”
Stanhope: “I didn’t…
“I didn’t see you in this miserable light”
Osborne “Think of…
“Think of it all as - as romantic. It helps.”
Hardy “dip it…
“dip it in whisky - makes ‘em go like hell!”
Trotter: “There’s nothing…
“There’s nothing like a good fat bacon rasher when you’re as empty as I am”
Raleigh: “Oh, I know…
“Oh, I know Dennis’ temper! […] at school he caught some chaps with a bottle of whisky. Lord! the roof nearly blew off.”
Osborne: “You see…
“You see, he’s been out here a long time. It - it tells on a man - rather badly-“
Osborne: “You’ve done…
“You’ve done pretty well. An MC and a company.”
Stanhope: “To forget…
“To forget, you little fool - to forget! […] You think there’s no limit to what a man can bear?”
