Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)
Rumpole and the Genuine Article (1983)
Leo McKern: Horace Rumpole
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Quotes
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Guthrie Featherstone, QC MP : You're working?
Horace Rumpole : [looking up from his desk] No, I'm standing on my head and playing the bagpipes!
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Horace Rumpole : I know our learned head of chambers has given up politics.
Henry : He's joined the SDP.
Horace Rumpole : Exactly.
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[Harold Brittling has turned up announced at Horace's flat and wants a legal consultation]
Horace Rumpole : If you've come to me for legal advice, I'm afraid you'll have to approach me in the proper manner.
[Brittling holds out a bottle of champagne]
Harold Brittling : But I *am* approaching you in the proper manner - bearing bubbly.
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[rather inebriated, Harold Brittling arrives at the Rumpoles' house for a consulation with Horace]
Harold Brittling : [to Hilda] You look distinctly familiar to me. We've met before, Hilda, haven't we?
Hilda Rumpole : I think it's hardly likely.
Harold Brittling : [to Hilda] Did you used to hover about the Old Monmouth pub in Charlotte Street? And didn't I once escort you home after the Guinness stout had been flowing rather too freely?
[Horace looks on, mystified and intrigued]
Horace Rumpole : [to himself] Either this little gnome is off his chump, or there are hidden depths to She Who Must Be Obeyed.
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[Guthrie Featherstone has been made a judge and is trying the forgery case in which Rumpole is defending Harold Brittling]
Guthrie Featherstone, QC MP : Mr Rumpole, I'm sure you don't *want* to be difficult.
Horace Rumpole : [to himself] Oh, why should you think that, old darling? I consider it my duty to be a difficult as possible.