Dr L. Arthur Robinson

Quotes

Dressing Down Quotes

[In a thoroughly rattly voice, at great volume] "YOU BOY!"

"Go outside and shoot yourself"

"If you think you're going UP those stairs you're very much mistaken"

"THOSE ARE THE UP STAIRS!"

"Those are NOT your pens!"

In the course of lessons

"Imagine I'm the river"

"An Oxo cube is condensed cow"

"I remember that............... I must be old....." (covering History lesson)

"Awful thing... Country at a standstill... actually I liked it I got a few days off for that!" (talking to Mr Williamson about the Winter of Discontent)

"Stop complaining! These are quality Robinson Bogeys"

Expressions of Anguish

(On colliding with a chair left in the basement corridor, which he failed to notice due to his towering height and a preoccupation with a piece of paper in his hand) "Gordon Bennet!"

"Oh Botherations!"

"Why won't this work?" (Clicking the wall thinking it is the interactive white board)

"WORK!" (at any electrical appliance which doesn't want to do it. Mainly because it's not turned on)