Dangerous Knowledge (TV Series)

Comprehensive Cover (1976)

John Gregson: Kirby

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Quotes 

• Laura Marshall : Thank you for all the heaving and conveying you've done for me.

  Bill Kirby : Well, any chivalrous cart horse would have done the same.

• Bill Kirby : What would you like? Champagne? Vodka? Vermouth? Campari?

  Laura Marshall : Tea.

  Bill Kirby : Oof. A bizarre addiction, I always thought.

• Laura Marshall : Do you always go to this much trouble?

  Bill Kirby : How do you mean?

  Laura Marshall : To pick up a woman.

  Bill Kirby : Well, only if they're younger than me - which they always are these days - and exceptionally beautiful.

  Laura Marshall : I may be younger than you, but otherwise you've just lost out.

• Laura Marshall : What is your business, Mr. Kirby?

  Bill Kirby : Why don't you go and take the wheel down below.

• Bill Kirby : I sell insurance, that's what I do for a living.

  Laura Marshall : What sort of insurance?

  Bill Kirby : Oh, life mostly. Company pension schemes; that sort of thing. Oh I do all right, but I've got a lot of expenses so I do a bit of freelance work on my own account... other kinds of insurance.

  Laura Marshall : What kind?

  Bill Kirby : Oh, this and that. It's a bit specialised.

  Laura Marshall : Gets you followed by armed men.

• [Kirby opens another bottle of whiskey] 

  Laura Marshall : You drink quite a lot, don't you?

  Bill Kirby : Oh, no. I spill most of it.