Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)
Rumpole and the Age of Miracles (1988)
Peter Blythe: Samuel Ballard Q.C.
Quotes
-
Samuel 'Soapy Sam' Ballard Q.C. : I believe it is the first time in our long history, Rumpole, that these chambers have contained... a chancellor!
[Rumpole is so shocked, he sits down]
Samuel 'Soapy Sam' Ballard Q.C. : Yes, Rumpole, unworthy as I am.
Horace Rumpole : [regaining his composure] Well, that's the understatement of the year!
-
Horace Rumpole : I happen to have a good deal of faith.
Samuel 'Soapy Sam' Ballard Q.C. : Yes, in what precisely?
Horace Rumpole : The health-giving qualities of claret, of course, the presumption of innocence, and not having to clock into chambers in the morning.