Waterloo Bridge Quotes

Roy Cronin: Myra, what do you think we're going to do tonight?

Myra Lester: Well, I, I...

Roy Cronin: Oh, you won't have time for that.

Myra Lester: For what?

Roy Cronin: For hesitating! No more hesitating for you!

Myra Lester: No?

Roy Cronin: No!

Myra Lester: Well, what am I going to do instead?

Roy Cronin: You're going to get married.

Roy Cronin: The ballet was beautiful.

Myra Lester: Madame didn't think so.

Roy Cronin: Well, experts never know - it takes outsiders to know, and I tell you, it was beautiful.

Myra Lester: That certainly proves you're an outsider.

Myra Lester: Hello.

Roy Cronin: Hello

[they kiss]

Roy Cronin: You know, I... I thought about you all last night. Couldn't sleep a wink.

Myra Lester: You managed to remember me at last, then.

Roy Cronin: [laughing] Yes, barely managed. Myra, what do you think we're going to do tonight?

Roy Cronin: Well, darling.

Myra Lester: Oh, Roy.

Roy Cronin: Shall we face it?

Myra Lester: It's been so quick. Are you quite, quite sure?

Roy Cronin: Myra, I was never so sure of anything in my life. In the moment you left me after the air raid, I knew I must find you again. I've found you and I'll never let you go. Does that answer you?

[Myra nods]

Roy Cronin: Must be good for the muscles. I should think a dancer's muscles would be like a strongman.

Myra Lester: Oh, not quite. That's a bit dreadful. We try to combine slenderness with strength. Well, I've been dancing since I was twelve and I don't think the muscles are over developed.

Roy Cronin: No-no. No, not in your case.

Myra Lester: This hateful war.

Roy Cronin: Yes, I suppose it is. And yet there's - I don't know - a certain amount of excitement about it too. Round the corner of every second, the fascination of the unknown. We're both facing it, this instance.

Myra Lester: No, we face the unknown in peacetime too.

Roy Cronin: You're rather matter-of-fact, aren't you?

Myra Lester: Yes. You're rather romantic, aren't you?

Myra Lester: What were you going to say?

Roy Cronin: Wish I could have seen the ballet. I'm sure it would have been a pleasant memory in the trenches.

Myra Lester: Do you think you'll remember me now?

Roy Cronin: I think so. I think so, for the rest of my life.

Roy Cronin: Wonderful evening, wasn't it?

Myra Lester: Yes. Thank you, very much.

Roy Cronin: When I come back, we'll go there again.

Myra Lester: Yes.

Roy Cronin: That'll be our place. That's were we'll always recapture this evening. Do you think we'll ever see each other again?

Myra Lester: I think it's doubtful, don't you?

Roy Cronin: Yes, I suppose it is.

Madame Olga Kirowa: Good evening, Myra. It's very condescending of you to come here at all!

Kitty: She's very unhappy, Madame. Her fiance was called to the front.

Madame Olga Kirowa: I'm not interested in troop movements.

Kitty: She was to be married in the morning.

Madame Olga Kirowa: Nor in social events.

Kitty: Well, the whole world doesn't begin and end with a ballet.

Madame Olga Kirowa: My world does! And while you are with me, so must your's!

Lady Margaret Cronin: Forgive me, my dear, but, are you quite well?

Myra Lester: Yes-yes, of course. I had a drink, that's all, it made me feel funny, queer! What's it like in Scotland? I've never been there. It always sounds so quaint, you know, the heather and the peat. Ha-ha. Peat comes from Ireland, doesn't it. I've never been there, either.

Myra Lester: How have we been living?

Kitty: What difference does it make, as long as we live.

Myra Lester: Where's the money coming from? Where are you getting it?

Kitty: Where do you think I've been getting it? I was trying to keep it from you, but - well, you know now.

Myra Lester: You did it for me.

Kitty: No I didn't! I'd a done it anyhow. C'est La Guerre. No jobs. No boys who want to marry you. Only men who want to kill a few hours, 'cause they know it may be their last.

Kitty: We're young and it's - it's good to live. Even the life I'm leading! Though, God knows, it - I've heard them call it the easiest way. I wonder where they thought up that little phrase? I know one thing. It couldn't have been a woman.

[pause]

Kitty: I suppose you think I'm dirt.

Flower Woman on Bridge: How's luck?

Myra Lester: No such thing.

Flower Woman on Bridge: Oh, nowadays there don't seem to be no luck for nobody.

Myra Lester: Oh well, better days coming, so the song says.

Flower Woman on Bridge: I hope so. Toodle-oo.

Second Girl at Estate Dance: She dances beautifully, doesn't she?

Third Girl at Estate Dance: Well, that's her job.

Viola - First Girl at Estate Dance: Those Cronin men, they're always attracted by girls who - undress in public.

Third Girl at Estate Dance: Why don't you try it, Viola?

Viola - First Girl at Estate Dance: Oh, I haven't the nerve. I'm not quite sure I've got the figure.

Roy Cronin: I knew I wouldn't sleep so I've been walking in the garden, confiding my good luck to the stars.

Myra Lester: Were they pleased?

Roy Cronin: No, they seemed indifferent. They went on glittering, the little exhibitionists!

Roy Cronin: Good night, darling.

Myra Lester: Goodbye, darling.

Roy Cronin: Why goodbye when it's only till morning?

Myra Lester: Because, every parting from you is - is like a little eternity.

Tart on Bridge at the End: Going down to the station?

[Myra shakes her head no]

Tart on Bridge at the End: Oh well, I'll be off on me lonesome then. Toodle-oo.