The Mikado (1992 TV Movie)

Lesley Echo Ross: Yum-Yum

Quotes 

• Yum-Yum : True he loves me, but everybody does that.

• Ko-Ko : At last, my bride that is to be!

  [about to embrace her] 

  Yum-Yum : [shocked]  You're not going to kiss me before all these people?

  Ko-Ko : I'm certainly not going to kiss you after them.

• Yum-Yum : You're not going to kiss me before all these people?

  Ko-Ko : I'm certainly not going to kiss you after them.

  Yum-Yum : [to Pitti-Sing]  Seems odd, don't it.

  Pitti-Sing : It's rather peculiar.

  Peep-Bo : I expect it's all right, must have a beginning you know.

  Yum-Yum : Well, I know nothing about these things, but I've no objection if it's usual.

  Ko-Ko : Oh it's quite usual, eh Minister of Fun?

  Pooh-Bah : I have known it done. I have not banned it yet.

• Ko-Ko : I? Marry Katisha?

  Yum-Yum : I really think it's the only course.

  Ko-Ko : But my good girl, have you SEEN HER? She's something appalling!

• Yum-Yum : Darling, I love you with all my heart, I don't suppose I shall ever love anyone else half as much, but when I agreed to marry you, my own, I had no idea, pet, that I should have to buried alive in a month.

  Nanki-Poo : Nor I, it's the first I've heard of it.

  Yum-Yum : It makes a difference, don't it.

  Nanki-Poo : It does make a difference.

  Yum-Yum : You see, burial alive. It's such a stuffy death.

  Nanki-Poo : I call it a beastly death.

  Yum-Yum : You see my difficulty, don't you.

  Nanki-Poo : Yes, and I see my own. If I insist on you carrying out your promise, I doom you to a hideous death but if I release you, you marry Ko-Ko at once.

• Nanki-Poo : What if it should prove that after all I am no musician.

  Yum-Yum : There! I was certain of it directly I heard you play.

• Yum-Yum : Yes, I am indeed beautiful! Sometimes I sit and wonder, in my artless Japanese way, why it is that I am so much more attractive than anybody else in the whole world. Can this be vanity? No! Nature is lovely and rejoices in her loveliness. I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.

• Yum-Yum : You see, burial alive, it's such a stuffy death!