"Woman: Do come along quick, there's a house on fire. Fire Chief: A house on fire? Just a moment, lady β what's the address? Woman: Grimshaw Street. Fire Chief: Grimshaw Street β Grimshaw β¦ now wait a minute, I know it as well as can be, and I just can't place it. Woman: Oh come along, it's only just round... Fire Chief: No, no, no β don't tell me, let me try and think of it for myself. Grimshaw Stβ... oh, isn't that annoying, I could walk straight to it, and I can't think of it."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
The Fire Chief
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robb_Wilton
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Robb Wilton
Robert Wilton Smith (28 August 1881 β 1 May 1957) was one of the most popular English comedians of the 1930s and 1940s. In his sketches and monologues he usually portrayed work-shy, henpecked husbands or dithering, ineffectual authority figures.
6 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Robb Wilton β
Related Quotes
"He said "I'll punch your head!" I said "Whose?" He said "Yours!" I said "Mine?" He said "Yes!" I said "Oh?" He said "β¦"
"The day war broke out, my Missus said to me β she looked at me and she said, "What good are you?""
""Well," she said, "All the young fellas'll be getting called up and you'll have to go back to work!" Ooh β she's got β¦"
"She said,"What are you supposed to do?" I said, "I'm supposed to stop Hitler's army landing." She said, "What! β you?β¦"
"She said, "Do you know this Hitler? Have you ever met him?" I said, "Do I β of course I don't!" She said, "Well how aβ¦"
"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the olβ¦"
"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besidβ¦"
"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought makβ¦"
"I knew in a flash Gary had something I should never have. It is something pure and he doesn't know it's there. In truβ¦"
"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."