A character in If.... (1968)

Mick Travis quotes from If.... (1968)

Malcolm McDowell

Most-quoted character in If.... (1968): in 24 of its 31 quotes

A line from Mick Travis [to Denson, about his necklace]

They're my teeth; they're my good luck charm.

More lines from Mick Travis

23 quotes
Mick Travis
[trimming his mustache]

My face is a never fading source of wonder to me.

Mick Travis
[telling Knightly of his summer activities]

I...met this fantastic bird in the East End, went round all the pubs. You ever been to those pubs? You should see those old loves dancing...showing their knickers. Take 'em off near the end. [Chuckles] She had a weird religion - only kiss on Thursdays. [Chuckles] Took me home to meet her mum and dad. Well, that finished it. Practically married us off, they did, over the Sunday joint. [School bell rings] When do we live? That's what I want to know.

Mick Travis
[clapping slowly, facetiously]

Jolly, jolly good, Stephans.

Mick Travis
[after lights-out, whispering]

Stephans. Whatever you're doing now... don't.

Mick Travis
[to Stephans]

Excuse me, you mind not picking your shag-spots in here?

Mick Travis

The whole world will end very soon - black, brittle bodies peeling into ash...

Mick Travis

There's no such thing as a wrong war. Violence and revolution are the only pure acts.

Mick Travis

War is the last possible creative act.

Mick Travis
[looking at a model in a magazine]

There's only one thing you can do with a girl like this. Walk naked into the sea together as the sun sets. Make love once... Then die.

Mick Travis
[to Denson, having a cold shower]

My time's up you bastard!

Mick Travis
[during a fencing duel with Wallace and Knightly]

War... even to the knife!

Mick Travis
[quoting Rudyard Kipling]

What stands, if freedom fall? Who dies, if England live?

Mick Travis
[after receiving an injury on his hand during the fencing duel]

Blood! Real blood!

Mick Travis
[at dinner]

Dead man's leg today, Mrs. Kemp. Do you need this, Mrs. Kemp?

Mick Travis
[discussing horrible ways to die]

Being flayed alive. That's what the Crusaders did to their enemies. Used to send their neatly folded skins back to their victims' wives.

Mick Travis

The night's dead. You can hardly breathe outside. The thing I'd really hate is to have a nail banged through the back of my neck. Slowly. [laughs] I don't see what difference the speed makes. [laughs] The speed of the nail. [laughs] The -The -The nail's speed! [laughs] The s-speed. [laughs]

Mick Travis
[to Rowntree]

What do you mean, being a nuisance? What have we done?

Mick Travis
[to Denson, after being told he knows nothing of the school's motto]

You mean that bit of wool on your tit?

Mick Travis
[to Rowntree, after being told that he, Wallace and Knightly are to be punished for their behaviour]

The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you give Coca-Cola to your scum and your best teddy-bear to Oxfam and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the rest of your frigid life.

Mick Travis
[to Wallace, watching as Knightly is being flogged]

Christ, that was a bit low!

Mick Travis
[making a blood pact with Wallace and Knightly]

Death to the oppressor!

Mick Travis

One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place. [deals out Bren gun ammo] Real bullets.

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