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Where the heck does this quote come from ?

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VenusInfers · 23/09/2022 19:02

Okay hive mind, show me what you can do!
I think the quote is from an old British movie -

"Everyone's been terribly, terribly kind..."

Possibly a classic male British actor? Anyone got any suggestions? It's driving me MAD! 😬

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123ZYX · 23/09/2022 19:04

Not certain, but I'm hearing it in Paddington's voice. Would that make sense?

Everylittlethingsgonnabealright · 23/09/2022 19:05

For some reason I read it to myself in a sort of Received Pronunciation - the Queen type accent but I don’t know why or if it’s ringing a bell for me! Do you know how it’s said, or who says it - make/female?

Everylittlethingsgonnabealright · 23/09/2022 19:05

Haha - cross post with Paddington!

Violettaa · 23/09/2022 19:06

Similar on RP - I was thinking Brief Encounter.

Saucery · 23/09/2022 19:06

A Private Function? I’m hearing it in Maggie Smith’s character’s voice though. #planningatrifle

Plantstrees · 23/09/2022 19:06

Yes to Paddington!

Everylittlethingsgonnabealright · 23/09/2022 19:06

God, and missed that you said male already - sorry 🙄

Robin233 · 23/09/2022 19:07

It's a wonderful life ??

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VenusInfers · 23/09/2022 19:08

I think it's a male voice. Paddington is a good shout - but thought it was older than that.

Doing this research for my chum - will see what he thinks!

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VenusInfers · 23/09/2022 19:10

Yes, @Everylittlethingsgonnabealright RP type voice was in his head. He wants to find the quote to use in a music project.

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SpinCityBlue · 23/09/2022 19:10

Violettaa · 23/09/2022 19:06

Similar on RP - I was thinking Brief Encounter.

This sounds familiar tbh

generalh · 23/09/2022 19:12

Railway children?

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VenusInfers · 23/09/2022 19:12

I don't want to say who he thought it was as might skew people John LeMeasurer or someone like that

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ballstomonty · 23/09/2022 19:13

Until you said male I thought Helena Bonham-Carter in A Room With A View

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VenusInfers · 23/09/2022 19:16

Ah, @ballstomonty such a great film! But don't think that's one of her lines.

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Everylittlethingsgonnabealright · 23/09/2022 19:25

generalh · 23/09/2022 19:12

Railway children?

When you said that I thought Bobby’s birthday scene where she thanks everyone? But just watched that scene on YouTube and it’s not that bit

Carrieonmywaywardsun · 23/09/2022 19:27

I'm reading it in Hugh Grant's voice

JennyForeigner · 23/09/2022 19:29

I think it's Brief Encounter too. One of the totes emosh scenes where she says goodbye to him forever or similar.

willingtolearn · 23/09/2022 19:31

John Hurt - "Everyone has been so terribly kind"??

NellesVilla · 23/09/2022 19:32

Hilary and Jackie?

Sounds like a Celia Imrie quote. Defo an English accent…

SurpriseSurprise · 23/09/2022 19:33

Didn’t Paddington say it in one of his letters to Aunt Lucy?

DoIHaveTooo · 23/09/2022 19:34

Alec guiness? In one of his posh british films, not star wars 😆

CosmopolitanPlease · 23/09/2022 19:34

I think it might be Ralph Fiennes in The Grand Budapest Hotel, when he goes to prison?

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VenusInfers · 23/09/2022 19:36

@JennyForeigner and @Violettaa Just looked at a load of Brief Encounter quotes. It's the right kind of 'style' of speech, but they don't seem to use those words. Darn it....

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MrJi · 23/09/2022 19:36

Gussie Finknottle says it in Bertie Wooster…The series with Hugh Laurie.
Probably a fairly common phrase though ?