Dick Turpin (TV Series)

Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 4 (1981)

Donald Pleasence: Ignatius Slake

Quotes 

• Ignatius Slake : [to Jane]  Yes... what have we here? Yes, yes, yes, brazen, brazen.

  [cackles] 

  Ignatius Slake : Lillith, Eve, Delilah, Salome...

• Ignatius Slake : Well, let's get on with the proceedings. Your name?

  Dick Turpin : Alexander the Great.

  Ignatius Slake : [angrily]  I hold you in contempt! Alexander is dust, dust... Do you think I'm mad? Or perhaps you're mad, Mr. Alexander.

  Dick Turpin : Perhaps I am, my lord.

  Ignatius Slake : [singsong voice]  Perhaps won't do, perhaps ain't good enough, perhaps won't save you.

• Ignatius Slake : Question number one: how do you catch a cold?

  Dick Turpin : Eh, I trap sneezes in a kerchief and use them as bait.

  Ignatius Slake : That's a good reply. How long is a piece of cheese?

  Dick Turpin : How long is it where, my lord?

  Ignatius Slake : Where, what?

  Dick Turpin : I find mountain cheese lasts much longer than stilton.

  Ignatius Slake : Careful, Mr. Alexander. How do you cure a ham?

  Dick Turpin : [laughs nervously]  Oh my lord, I think you're trying to trick me. eh, ah, I would cure a ham if he were alive, but alas, poor nose sunday's passed all physic.

  Ignatius Slake : He has indeed, yes, he has indeed.