Charlie, Department of Works: Bloody typical, they've gone back to metric without telling us.
Dr. Lewis Jaffe: Just me and my little knife! Snip snip - slice slice... can you believe it?
Spoor: All you've got to do is blow your nose and it's fixed, in't it?
Sam Lowry: My name's Lowry. Sam Lowry. I've been told to report to Mr. Warrenn.
Porter - Information Retrieval: Thirtieth floor, sir. You're expected.
Sam Lowry: Um... don't you want to search me?
Porter - Information Retrieval: No sir.
Sam Lowry: Do you want to see my ID?
Porter - Information Retrieval: No need, sir.
Sam Lowry: But I could be anybody.
Porter - Information Retrieval: No you couldn't sir. This is Information Retrieval.
Jill Layton: Care for a little necrophilia? Hmmm?
Mrs. Buttle: What have you done with his body?
Sam Lowry: Excuse me, Dawson, can you put me through to Mr. Helpmann's office?
Dawson: I'm afraid I can't sir. You have to go through the proper channels.
Sam Lowry: And you can't tell me what the proper channels are, because that's classified information?
Dawson: I'm glad to see the Ministry's continuing its tradition of recruiting the brightest and best, sir.
Sam Lowry: Thank you, Dawson.
Sam Lowry: Tuttle.
Harry Tuttle: Call me Harry.
T.V. Interviewer: How do you account for the fact that the bombing campaign has been going on for thirteen years?
Mr. Helpmann: Beginners' luck.
Sam Lowry: Are you all right?
Jill Layton: Yeah.
Sam Lowry: Well, you don't deserve to be.
Mrs. Terrain: There's been a little complication with my complication.
Mr. Warrenn: What is this mess? An empty desk is an efficient desk.
Arresting Officer: This is your receipt for your husband... and this is my receipt for your receipt.
Harry Tuttle: My good friends call me Harry.
Holly: Put it on, big boy. I won't look at your willy.
Harry Tuttle: Listen, kid, we're all in it together.
Sam Lowry: I only know you got the wrong man.
Jack Lint: Information Transit got the wrong man. I got the right man. The wrong one was delivered to me as the right man, I accepted him on good faith as the right man. Was I wrong?
Mr. Helpmann: Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seem to have forgotten good old-fashioned virtues. They just can't stand seeing the other fellow win. If these people would just play the game.
Kurtzmann: Has anybody seen Sam Lowry?





Answer: I don't think the time is particularly relevant, except that its exactness is in stark contrast to the temporal and locational vagueness of the next statement which is "...Somewhere in the 20th century".
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