Goodbye, Mr. Chips Movie Quotes
[dying words]
Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips'
I thought I heard you saying it was a pity... pity I never had any children. But you're wrong. I have. Thousands of them. Thousands of them... and all boys.
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Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips'
I know the world's changing, Dr. Ralston. I've seen the old traditions die, one by one. Grace, dignity, feeling for the past - all that matters here today is a fat banking account. You're trying to run the school like a factory, for turning out money-making machine-made snobs. You've raised the fees. And in the end, the boys who really belong at Brookfield will be frozen out, frozen out. Modern methods, intensive training - poppycock! Give a boy a sense of humor and a sense of proportion and he'll stand up to anything. I'm not going to retire, you can do what you like about it.
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Katherine
It must be tremendously interesting to be a schoolmaster, to watch boys grow up and help them along; to see their characters develop and what they become when they leave school and the world gets hold of them. I don't see how you could ever get old in a world that's always young.
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Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips'
Well, remember me sometimes. I shall always remember you. "Haec olim meminisse iuvabit." I need not translate it for you.
[the phrase is from Virgil's Aeneid, circa 30-19 B.C.: "In the future, it will be pleasing to remember these things." Alternatively, "One day, we will look back on this and smile"]
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Ralston
[to Mr. Chips]
And when you write that books of yours, remember that in addition to all those boys you taught, you managed to teach something to at least one headmaster.
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[on his first day at Brookfield School, Mr. Chipping is attempting to bring his unruly class under his control]
Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips'
Silence! Silence! I'll have no more of it!
John Colley
No more silence, sir?
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Katherine
I'm sorry, I wasn't in any danger.
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Ralston
A year ago, I told you I wanted the new style of Latin pronunciation taught. And you totally ignored it.
Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips'
Oh, that. Nonsense, in my opinion. Nonsense. What's the good of teaching boys to say 'Kikero', when, for the rest of their lives, they'll say 'Sissero'
[Cicero]
Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips'
? If they say it a'tall. Instead of 'vy-sissum', you'd make them say 'we-kiss-'em
[vicissim, adverb; in turn, again]
Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips'
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Ralston
There you are. I'm trying to make Brookfield an up-to-date school and you insist on clinging to the past. The world's changing, Mr. Chipping.
Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips'
[Chips then states his theory on the loss of grace and manners, quoted above, herein]
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Army General
[watching the Officer Training Corps students parade]
I congratulate you Mr. Chipping. A smart parade and a fine looking lot of boys.
Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips'
Thank you General, thank you.
Army General
Very important this OTC work, these lads are the officers of tomorrow.
Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips'
I prefer to hope General, that tomorrow never comes.
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