Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series)
The White Man's Grave (1983)
Brian Wilde: Foggy
Quotes
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.