The History Boys (2006)

James Corden: Timms

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Quotes 

• [in an art-appreciation lesson, discussing the nudes of Michaelangelo] 

  Timms : These aren't women. They're just men with tits. And the tits look as if they've been put on with an ice-cream scoop!

• [about A.E. Housman] 

  Timms : Wasn't he a nancy, sir?

  Hector : Foul, festering, grubby-minded little trollop! Do not use that word!

  [Hector hits Timms on the head with an exercise book] 

  Timms : But you use it, sir!

  Hector : I do, sir, I know, but I am far gone in age and decrepitude.

• Timms : You've got crap handwriting, sir!

  Tom Irwin : It's your eyesight that's bad, and we know what that's caused by.

  Timms : Sir! Is that a coded reference to the mythical dangers of self-abuse?

  Tom Irwin : Possibly. It might even be a joke.

  Dakin : A joke, sir. Oh. Are jokes going to be a feature, sir? We need to know as it affects our mindset.

• [Timms is trying to duck out of Athletics] 

  Wilkes : What's the matter with you, lad?

  Timms : I've got a note.

  Wilkes : How much for?

  [laughs] 

  Wilkes : I don't *do* notes! Get changed!

  Timms : Sir...

  Wilkes : God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!

  Scripps : Actually, sir, I think he *did*...

• Tom Irwin : You were quoting somebody. Auden, isn't it?

  Timms : [Expansively]  Was I, sir? Sometimes it just flows out, y'know, brims over!

• Timms : I don't always understand poetry!

  Hector : You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it... whenever.