Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Right to Silence (1991)

Leo McKern: Horace Rumpole

Quotes 

• Audrey Wystan : That's Mercy Charles, the Vice-Chancellor's wife. She used to be a model.

  Horace Rumpole : A model wife or a model model?

• Samuel 'Soapy Sam' Ballard, Q.C. : [Nervously]  Rumpole, what's your opinion of secrets in married life?

  Horace Rumpole : Absolutely essential!

• Samuel 'Soapy Sam' Ballard, Q.C. : I mean, Rumpole, how do you find marriage?

  Horace Rumpole : [laughs]  In my experience, you don't - it finds you. It comes creeping up unexpectedly and seizes you by the collar.

• [Rumpole and his client Professor Clive Clympton have been talking about the accused's right to silence] 

  Horace Rumpole : Professor, you will have to tell us exactly where you were and what you were doing between 9:30 and just after 10 that evening when Mrs O'Leary discovered the Vice Chancellor dead.

  [Clympton looks away and says nothing] 

  Horace Rumpole : Where were you that evening, Professor?

  [Clympton still says nothing] 

  Horace Rumpole : [losing patience]  Oh, very well. Keep quiet. You are entitled to. But there is just one line of Wordsworth that it might pay you to remember. "All silent and all damned".