Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Genuine Article (1983)

Leo McKern: Horace Rumpole

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Quotes 

• 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!

• Horace Rumpole : I know our learned head of chambers has given up politics.

  Henry : He's joined the SDP.

  Horace Rumpole : Exactly.

• [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.

• [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.

• [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.