Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Last Resort (1983)

Leo McKern: Horace Rumpole

Quotes 

• Horace Rumpole : After the sad news that poor old Horace Rumpole had kicked the bucket, it must have come as a great pleasure to you all to learn he had simply turned a little pale.

• Horace Rumpole : That's why I asked you to give Miss Allways a little brief. She has a remarkable head for figures.

  Frank Armstrong : [lewdly]  And quite a figure for heads, I would imagine.

  [laughs] 

• Cashier : How would you like the money, sir?

  Horace Rumpole : Preferably in enormous quantities.

• Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham : Mr Rumpole, I believe you have a taste for poetry. You will no doubt remember the quotation about "The Law's delays"?

  Horace Rumpole : Ah yes, My Lord. It comes in the same passage which deals with "The Insolence of Office".

• [Frank Armstrong is accused of renting out non-existent holiday locations] 

  Ward-Webster : On one occasion at least, a mobile home was actually removed from an unhappy mother just as she was about to enter it.

  Judge Roger 'The Mad Bull' Bullingham : Instead of the mother running away from home, the home ran away from the mother.

  [jury laughs] 

  Horace Rumpole : [to himself]  Oh well done, Bull, quite the stand-up comic.

• Frank Armstrong : Looking round your office today, Mr Rumpole, I doubt whether it's fully automated. You have great delays in sending out your bills, am I right?

  Horace Rumpole : [chuckles]  I sometimes think my bills are sent out by carrier pigeon - with a broken wing and no sense of direction.