The Avengers (TV Series)

The Positive Negative Man (1967)

Patrick Macnee: John Steed

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Quotes 

• John Steed : [Steed is magnetically attached to his car, Emma tries to help and becomes attached to him]  Don't fight it, Mrs. Peel. We're inseparable.

• Cynthia Wentworth-Howe : I'm Cynthia Wentworth-Howe, Top Hush Secretary to the Minister.

  John Steed : How do you do?

  Emma Peel : Top Hush?

  Cynthia Wentworth-Howe : We assistants come in four grades: 'Confidential', 'Secret', 'Most Secret' and 'Top Hush'.

  John Steed : Eh, you've reached the top of your profession, then?

  Cynthia Wentworth-Howe : Not quite. My ultimate ambition is to achieve the special category of 'Button Lip', the pinnacle of secrecy. Not a single syllable passed on before being vetted, examined, coded and cleared.

• [Steed rescues Mrs. Peel, who is wrapped from head to toe in tin foil] 

  John Steed : Mrs. Peel! I'd recognize those eyes anywhere. I knew you had sterling qualities but bright silver!

• John Steed : What was all that about? You didn't trip, we don't have a dinner engagement, and to plumb the depths of utter banality with 'I don't usually fall for strangers'.

  Emma Peel : It was a corny situation calling for corny measures.

• John Steed : You don't happen to be carrying around a large brandy, do you?

  Emma Peel : No, I'm traveling light.

• Cynthia Wentworth-Howe : All the confidential war records are kept here.

  John Steed : Have there been many confidential wars?

• John Steed : [having entered through the window]  Forgive the unconventional entrance. It's basic training. Old habits die hard, eh?