- [dying words]
- Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips': I thought I heard you saying it was a pity... pity I never had any children. But you're wrong. I have. Thousands of them. Thousands of them... and all boys.
- Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips': I know the world's changing, Dr. Ralston. I've seen the old traditions die, one by one. Grace, dignity, feeling for the past - all that matters here today is a fat banking account. You're trying to run the school like a factory, for turning out money-making machine-made snobs. You've raised the fees. And in the end, the boys who really belong at Brookfield will be frozen out, frozen out. Modern methods, intensive training - poppycock! Give a boy a sense of humor and a sense of proportion and he'll stand up to anything. I'm not going to retire, you can do what you like about it.
- Katherine: It must be tremendously interesting to be a schoolmaster, to watch boys grow up and help them along; to see their characters develop and what they become when they leave school and the world gets hold of them. I don't see how you could ever get old in a world that's always young.
- Ralston: [to Mr. Chips] And when you write that books of yours, remember that in addition to all those boys you taught, you managed to teach something to at least one headmaster.
- Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips': Well, remember me sometimes. I shall always remember you. "Haec olim meminisse iuvabit." I need not translate it for you.
- [the phrase is from Virgil's Aeneid, circa 30-19 B.C.: "In the future, it will be pleasing to remember these things." Alternatively, "One day, we will look back on this and smile"]
- [on his first day at Brookfield School, Mr. Chipping is attempting to bring his unruly class under his control]
- Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips': Silence! Silence! I'll have no more of it!
- John Colley: No more silence, sir?
- Ralston: A year ago, I told you I wanted the new style of Latin pronunciation taught. And you totally ignored it.
- Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips': Oh, that. Nonsense, in my opinion. Nonsense. What's the good of teaching boys to say 'Kikero', when, for the rest of their lives, they'll say 'Sissero'
- [Cicero]
- Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips': ? If they say it a'tall. Instead of 'vy-sissum', you'd make them say 'we-kiss-'em
- [vicissim, adverb; in turn, again]
- Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips': .
- Ralston: There you are. I'm trying to make Brookfield an up-to-date school and you insist on clinging to the past. The world's changing, Mr. Chipping.
- Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips': [Chips then states his theory on the loss of grace and manners, quoted above, herein]
- Army General: [watching the Officer Training Corps students parade] I congratulate you Mr. Chipping. A smart parade and a fine looking lot of boys.
- Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips': Thank you General, thank you.
- Army General: Very important this OTC work, these lads are the officers of tomorrow.
- Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips': I prefer to hope General, that tomorrow never comes.