Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)
Rumpole and the Learned Friends (1978)
Leo McKern: Horace Rumpole
Quotes
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[Guthrie Featherstone is leading Horace Rumpole in a case of safe-cracking]
Guthrie Featherstone, QC MP : Of course I'll mitigate.
Horace Rumpole : Mitigate? "My Lord, my client only went in to buy a seven-penny stamp. But as he was kept waiting by ten old ladies with pension books, he lost his patience and blew the safe."
Guthrie Featherstone, QC MP : [ironically] Very good mitigation.
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Guthrie Featherstone, QC MP : If you ask me, this case is as dead as a doornail.
Horace Rumpole : So are we all, eventually.
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Horace Rumpole : I'm not exactly doing your case.
Charlie Wheeler : Oh, you're not?
Horace Rumpole : No, your case is being handled by Mr. Guthrie Featherstone, QC, MP, whose name is constantly mentioned in the corridors of power.
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Horace Rumpole : The flu is a disease with endless possibilities.
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[last lines]
Horace Rumpole : Here, I give you a toast. Here's to our future.
Hilda Rumpole : The future!
Horace Rumpole : [Laconically] Which now shows every sign of being exactly like our past.
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[Rumpole is ill in bed and Hilda is taking his temperature]
Hilda Rumpole : [looking at the thermometer] Rumpole, you're not normal.
Horace Rumpole : [groans weakly] I'm dying.
Hilda Rumpole : Nonsense! What did Doctor Hanson say it was?
Horace Rumpole : [ominously] Death. He says there's a lot of it about.
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[Rumpole is "dying" of flu when his clerk phones with news of a safe-blowing case that he wants Rumpole to defend. Rumpole is suddenly much better and gets up]
Hilda Rumpole : I thought you were dying.
Horace Rumpole : Dying will have to be postponed. Safe-blowing comes first.