The Vicar of Dibley (TV Series)

Songs of Praise (1994)

Gary Waldhorn: David Horton

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Alice Tinker : [on TV show]  The lesson is taken from the sixth chapter of the Song of Solomon, beginning at the second verse.

  Alice Tinker : [reading from the newly presented Bible]  Ye are the fault of the earth and fainted... sainted. God shall feel... seal your endeavours until ye fit on his right hand. Therefore fight the good fight, for his... fake, and he shall be thy fu...

  Geraldine Granger : *Succour!* He shall be thy succour.

  Alice Tinker : ...thy succour.

  Geraldine Granger : [watching the show]  You see, nobody would have noticed. Would they, David?

  David Horton : No! No, of course not, not if they were watching the other side.

• Letitia Cropley : I rather enjoyed Lady Chatterley. Some very useful tips.

  David Horton : I beg your pardon.

  Letitia Cropley : Oh, gardening tips; Mellors was a gamekeeper, very good at hedge control.

  David Horton : I see.

  Letitia Cropley : I thought the sex was jolly good fun, as well.

  Frank Pickle : Do you want that in the minutes?

  Letitia Cropley : Oh, better not. We don't want the vice squad raiding us, do we?

• [first lines] 

  Owen Newitt : As long as you wear plastic gloves up to your shoulder, so you can put your arm right up her.

  David Horton : And I think that is that for today, except of course for any other business. Any other business?

  [pause] 

  David Horton : Hugo?

  Hugo Horton : Yup?

  David Horton : Any other business?

  Hugo Horton : Oh, uh... yes, um, I would like to record the council's gratitude for the completely anonymous gift of this wonderful new Bible.

  [murmurs of agreement from the others] 

  David Horton : I think you might add 'extraordinarily generous'.

  Geraldine Granger : Mmm... and delete 'completely anonymous'.

• Geraldine Granger : You always think people at the BBC are going to be glamorous, and then you remember Nicholas Witchell works there.

  David Horton : Besides which, most of them are so homosexual they make John Inman look like Jean-Claude Van Damme.