Time After Time

Time After Time Quotes

H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.

[H.G. Wells eats at a McDonald's]
H.G. Wells: Pomme frites! Fries are pomme frites!
H.G. Wells: Every age is the same. It's only love that makes any of them bearable.
Jack the Ripper: My mother was rather an atrocious woman in her way, but her many failings did not include raising mentally deficient sons.
Jack the Ripper: It's catching isn't it, violence.
H.G. Wells: My name is H.G. Wells. I came here in a time machine of my own construction. I am pursuing Jack the Ripper, who escaped into the future in my machine.
H.G. Wells: The first man to raise a fist is the man who's run out of ideas.
Amy Robbins: I love you.
Jack the Ripper: We don't belong here? On the contrary, Herbert. I belong here completely and utterly. I'm home.
H.G. Wells: This is delicious, far superior to that Scottish place I breakfasted.
Amy Robbins: Scottish?
H.G. Wells: McDougall's
H.G. Wells: We could easily avoid this whole thing.
Amy Robbins: You mean, give him the key?
H.G. Wells: No. I mean... come back with me.
Amy Robbins: Back?
H.G. Wells, Amy Robbins: Yes. Back to 1893.
Amy Robbins: I'm a twentieth century woman. I have a career and a mind of my own. Be reasonable. How am I gonna make it in 1893?
H.G. Wells: Is your career so important? It's your life we're talking about!
Amy Robbins: My work is my life. As much as yours or any other man's. Please don't start sounding like my husband. Wait a minute... What about forward?
H.G. Wells: Forward? You mean the future. Yes, of course!
[thinks a moment]
H.G. Wells: No... no. We're forgetting something... him. I can't just leave him here to do as he likes.
Amy Robbins: So much for "your place or mine."
Amy Robbins: I like that suit. Is that what they're wearing in London?
H.G. Wells: It was when I left.
[as Wells and Amy are kissing on Amy's couch, she begins to remove pieces of his clothing - first taking off his glasses, then unfastening his collar]
H.G. Wells: Amy, I don't want to compromise you. Are you quite certain I'm not forcing you to...
Amy Robbins: Forcing me? My God, Herbert, I'm practically raping you.
H.G. Wells: [smiles] Yeah, that's true.
H.G. Wells: Do you still insist that this is all poppycock?
Amy Robbins: That's not exactly the word I had in mind.
[John demonstrates to H.G. that 1979 isn't a social utopia]
Jack the Ripper: The future isn't what you thought. It's what I am!
[Explaining his fascination with a plastic table]
H.G. Wells: I've never seen wood like this before.
Jack the Ripper: And at dinner last... century, I thought you'd lost your wits.
Jack the Ripper: Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur.
[H.G. Wells tracks down Jack the Ripper in the future]
Jack the Ripper: You are, quite literally, the last person on Earth that I expected to see.
H.G. Wells: I have all those books to write, whatever they are. Fiction, I hope!
[Jack the Ripper uses the Time Machine to travel to 1979]
H.G. Wells: What... have... I... done? I've turned that bloody maniac loose upon Utopia!
H.G. Wells: Amy, wait, listen to me!
Amy Robbins: I *have* listened, and a bigger crock of shit I've never heard!

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