Alfie

'I always say make a married woman laugh.'

It turns out that Alfie has a penchant for married women.

He calls the women he is with, 'Girl,' and even refers to them as it!

Alfie certainly seems to know what makes them tick and when to get out if they're getting to close!

'Alfie do you love me?' (Gilda)

- 'Well shall we say I like you a lot!' (Alfie)

'You could still be happy with a few hundred quid in the bank instead of tuppence hapney!'

'Never be cheerful on a job if you're doing a fiddle!'

Alfie is always searching for an angle.

There's a real love battle going on between Gilda, the bus conductor who is hopefully in love with her and Alfie who is using her.

'Do you love me?'

- 'You shouldn't ask me. I will tell you when I feel like it.'

Predictably Alfie has problems with intimacy.

'Wow you can't turn something like that down!'

'And on top of them, there was always the odd bird that came my way by chance!'

As Alfie's son gets older he says that he finds himself getting quite attached and that's something that he guards against.

'Humphrey how would you feel bringing up another man's child?'

Alfie goes to the doctor and finds out he has got two shadows on his lungs.

'And it don't do to get dependant on anyone in this life.'

'All I want Harry is for you to see life and see what he does for you.'

Alfie is talking to devoted father Harry in hospital saying what he thinks his wife will do if he dies in there. Alfie does have a cynical view on life and you can say what you like about it but when talks about life he knows what he is talking about.

'Married?'

- 'Sometimes' lol

Alfie takes up photographing people around Tower Hill as a way of making some cash and meeting women!

'One thing about driving a Rolls they're pleased to see you anywhere!'

'When I go out that door I don't know what day I will be back let alone what time. I'm what's called a free agent.'

'The little remark could be the writing on the wall.'

'Do you know there's been times when I've felt lucky to get out of that bath alive!'

Its obvious that Alfie is never going to change his way even after he runs in to the lorry driver in the pub who's woman Annie he took away from him at the service station and a bar brawl breaks out!

Annie leaves Alfie after he has an argument with her (mainly over her cooking).

The film turns very serious when Lillie has an abortion in Alfie's flat.

Alfie goes for a walk and looks in upon his ex's christening with her new husband and his son Malcolm.

'I'm definitely going to settle down with this Ruby. I'm fed up of being out on the move.'

'What's he got that I haven't got. Why's he better than me?'

- 'He's younger than you are!'