History Boys (2006)

Adrian Scarborough: Wilkes

Quotes 

• [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*...

• Wilkes : One day it will save your life.

  Posner : Nothing saves anyone's life sir. It just postpones their death.

  [Wilkes puts his hands on Posner's shoulders] 

  Wilkes : Jesus Christ will save your life, lad, if you only let him into your heart!

  Posner : I'm Jewish, sir.

  [Wilkes moves instead to put his hands on Akhtar's shoulders] 

  Akthar : I'm Muslim, sir.

• Wilkes : You're letting yourself down. You're letting God down.

  Lockwood : What's God got to do with it?

  Wilkes : Listen, boy. This isn't your body.

  Lockwood : No?

  Wilkes : This body is on loan to you from God.

  Lockwood : Fuck me!

  Wilkes : I heard that. Give me twenty.

  Lockwood : Twenty what, Hail Marys?

  Wilkes : Do it.

• [Mrs. Lintott smokes in the Teacher's Lounge] 

  Wilkes : Dorothy...

  [points to the No Smoking sign] 

  Mrs. Lintott : Oh, fuck.