Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series)

The White Man's Grave (1983)

Brian Wilde: Foggy

Quotes 

• [Foggy recalls his military service] 

  Foggy Dewhurst : Yes, some of us gave our health and strength to the empire.

  [Foggy scowls at Compo] 

  Foggy Dewhurst : And some of us gave it Woodbines and funny women.

  Compo Simmonite : Aye, well, tha's lost the empire but I've still got Woodbines and funny women.

• [Ivy lectures Sid while Compo and the others look in unnoticed through the café windows] 

  Ivy : And don't you forget it!

  [Ivy wallops Sid on the top of the head with a serving tray, then exits into the kitchen] 

  Ivy : [Compo enters the cafe] 

  Compo Simmonite : Ha-ha-ha! She's playful with a trayful, is your Ivy.

  Foggy Dewhurst : It'll only be a mild concussion, Sidney.

  Norman Clegg : I'll tell you something, Sidney. Someone's gonna dig up this skull in a million years' time and come to the conclusion that there was a breed of Yorkshiremen with very flat heads. For which, of course, the flat cap had to be invented.

• [last lines] 

  Norman Clegg : You'd think she'd have more patience with infants in prams.

  Foggy Dewhurst : She's never looked a string of patience to me. I was once bitten by a Jack Russell terrier that was friendlier than that.

  Compo Simmonite : Well, she's never bitten me. And it's not as though I haven't tried.

  Norman Clegg : Mm.