The History Boys (2006)

Jamie Parker: Scripps

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Quotes 

• [discussing Posner liking Dakin] 

  Scripps : Oh, Pos, with your spaniel heart. It will pass.

  Posner : Yes, it's a phase. Who says I want it to pass? But the pain, the *pain*.

  Scripps : Hector would say it's the only education worth having.

  Posner : Yes. I just wish there were marks for it.

• [about Irwin] 

  Dakin : Foreskins and stuff. "Oh, sir, you devil!"

  Scripps : Have a heart. He's only five minutes older than we are.

• [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*...

• Scripps : What makes you think he'd do it with you?

  [Dakin smiles] 

  Scripps : You complacent fuck.

  Dakin : Does the Archbishop of Canterbury know you talk like this?

• Dakin : I just wanted to say thank you.

  Scripps : So? Give him a subscription to The Spectator or a box of Black Magic. Just because you've got a scholarship doesn't mean you've got to give him unfettered access to your dick.

• Scripps : No more genital massage as one speeds along leafy suburban roads. No more the bike's melancholy long withdrawing roar as he dropped you at the corner, your honour still intact.

• [Dakin is annoyed because he thinks Irwin doesn't like him] 

  Posner : But he doesn't understand, Irwin *does* like him. He seldom looks at anyone else.

  Scripps : How do you know?

  Posner : Because nor do I. Our eyes meet looking at Dakin.

• [Scripps is taking the mick out of Dakin for trying to please Irwin too much] 

  Scripps : Have you looked at your handwriting recently? You're beginning to write like him!

  [turns to look at Posner's essay] 

  Scripps : You're writin' like 'im an' all!

  Posner : I am not! Dakin writes like him, I write like Dakin.

• [about religion] 

  Scripps : It's what you don't do.

  Dakin : You don't *not wank*? Jesus, you're headed for the bin.

  Scripps : It's not for ever.

  Dakin : Yeah? Well, tell me on the big day and I'll stand well back.

• [about Dakin/Irwin] 

  Dakin : So how would you say thank you?

  Scripps : Same as you probably. On my knees.

• Dakin : The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.

  Scripps : No.

  Dakin : It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

• Dakin : What happened with Hector? On the bike?

  Scripps : As per. Except I managed to get my bag down. I think he thought he'd got me going. In fact it was my Tudor Economic Documents, Volume 2.

• Scripps : Love can be very irritating.

  Posner : How do you know?

  Scripps : That's what I always think about God. Must get so pissed off, everybody adoring him all the time.

  Posner : Yes, only you don't catch God poncing about in his underpants.

• [Fiona walks past. Dakin and Scripps gaze lustfully at her] 

  Dakin : Lecher though one is - or aspires to be - it occurs to me that the lot of woman cannot be easy, who must suffer such inexpert male fumblings, virtually on a daily basis. Are we scarred for life, do you think?

  Scripps : We must hope so.

• [about to go on the bike with Hector] 

  Scripps : The things I do for Jesus.