As Time Goes By (TV Series)
The Country Set (1996)
Geoffrey Palmer: Lionel Hardcastle
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Quotes
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[first lines]
Lionel : Why anyone should pack an anvil for a weekend in the country I don't know.
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[last lines]
Jean : Try saying: "No thank you, we don't want to."
Lionel : No thank you, we don't want to.
Jean : That sounds very surly.
Lionel : Well, you try it then.
Jean : All right. No thank you, we don't want to.
Lionel : Huh, sounds rather whiny.
Jean : Oh, does it? Well, somewhere in the middle then.
[the telephone starts ringing]
Jean : Augh.
Lionel : That'll be one of them; I know it will.
Jean : [yells at phone] Leave us alone.
Lionel : Well, I'm not having it. We're having supper in front of the fire, and that's it.
Jean : No, let me try it; I might be better at trying somewhere in the middle.
Lionel : But honest.
Jean : Honest of course.
[picks up phone]
Jean : Hello. Oh, Alan.
Lionel : Ah-ha, my God.
Jean : Supper tonight? Oh, thank you, Alan.
Lionel : What!
Jean : No, we can't.
[to Lionel]
Jean : Why, why?
[Lionel shrugs]
Jean : Ah, well, it... oh well, would you believe it, Lionel has just come down with measles. Really, yes, sorry, no, good-bye.
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Lionel : Mrs Bale.
Mrs. Bale : Yes?
Lionel : This dense fog which is going to engulf the whole of Hampshire, isn't it rather odd to hear that on a shipping forecast?
[Mrs Bale just smiles]
Jean : Mrs Bale!
Mrs. Bale : Well, I thought the situation warranted a little white lie.
Jean : Bless you!
Lionel : Mind you, yesterday you claimed to have the strength of ten because your heart was pure.
Mrs. Bale : I've always found 'pure' to be a very comparative word.
