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What's your favourite line in the movie?


Obviously this movie is packed full of amazing dialogue, but for some reason my favourite line is....

Withnail - "Good. I'm glad you're the proprietor."

For some reason that line just kills me. With that look on his face.

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Almost every word that is spoken by Uncle Monty - specifically "splendid." and all dialogue relating to his cat.

"No, no dear boy. You must leave. Yet again that oaf has destroyed my day!"




What we know is a drop. What we don't, an ocean.

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Uncle Monty: "I can't touch meat unless it's cooked. When I was a youth I would weep in butcher shops."

Just something hilarious about that line and the way he delivers it!

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Danny, on the demise of the sixties: "They're selling hippie wigs at Woolworth's, man."

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Every quote from the tea shop scene...

"We are not drunks....We are multi-millionaires!"

"We want the finest wines available to humanity"

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Haha yes the "finest wines" line got me to laugh out loud. Come to think of it this movie had me laughing out loud sincerely more than any other I've watched in the past few years.

Utterly brilliant, tragic and funny. Truly Shakespearean.

"Flowers are essentially tarts; prostitutes for the bees."

"Drunk bartender: Do you know, when you first came in here I knew you were a services man. You can never, never disguise it."




~Before I travelled my road I was my road.~

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A near impossible question to answer,for me it is Grant and Mcgann's 'delivery' of the lines that is so masterful,for example the way Withnail asks for the round of drinks-"2 large gins.2 pints of cider.Ice in the cider".On paper-plain and simple,then Grant gets a hold of it...

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A definite favourite is impossible, but I'm currently a big fan of: "I have a heart condition; if you hit me it's murder", delivered with hilarious, disgusting, cowardice by Grant.

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Why are the lines so funny? Nothing to them.

Sherry?

- Sherry.

Sherry?

- Sherry.

Sherry.

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Delivery :)

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A line, I can't choose...however, this sequence of lines:


Withnail (petrified) "We mean no haaaaarrrrmmm.."

Monty "Oh my boyyyyyysss..."

Marwood (relived) "Monty!!!its Monty!!!"

Withnail (suddenly furious) "MONTY YOU TERRIBLE *beep*




The three actors play off each other brilliantly.

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Monty: "We live in a land of weather forecasts ... breakfasts that set in ..."

These bastards!

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"We've gone on holiday by mistake"


Withnail just beforre leaving the coffee shop drunk, "We are coming back. We're coming back in here."





Paul Avery: Someone should write a *beep* book, that's for sure.

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"We've gone on holiday by mistake!" had me laughing harder than anything in a movie has for a long time

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"I feel like a pig shat in my head!"

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"You have soup. Where's my soup?" And the aggrieved look on Withnail's face as he says it.

"It's coffee."
"Why don't you drink it from a cup like a normal human being?"
"Why don't you wash up like a normal human being?"
(Withnail attacking him): "Are you saying I'm not a normal human being?"
"No I'm not. It's all your imagination."

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