84 Charing Cross Road (1987)

Anthony Hopkins: Frank P. Doel

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Quotes 

• Mary Doel, Aged 4 : [family outing on a dismal afternoon]  Why does it always rain at the seaside, Daddy?

  Frank P. Doel : What?

  Mary Doel, Aged 4 : Why does it always rain at the seaside?

  Frank P. Doel : [cheerfully pondering]  Why does it rain at the seaside? To bring the rents down in the hotels.

  [big laugh] 

• Frank P. Doel : [reading "He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by William Butler Yeats]  "Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths, Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

• Frank P. Doel : [reading aloud from a letter from Miss Hanff]  "Tell the girls and Nora, if all goes well, they're getting nylons for Lent."

• Frank P. Doel : I shall be only too pleased to root for the Brooklyn Dodgers, if you will reciprocate by a few cheers for the Spurs - the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, to the uninitiated, who are at present languishing next to the bottom of the League. However, the season does not finish until next April, so they have time to get themselves out of the mess.

• Frank P. Doel : We are quite at a loss to know how you managed nylons, which appeared as if by magic.