Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Quacks (1991)

Leo McKern: Horace Rumpole

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Quotes 

• Horace Rumpole : If you're no good at the bar, they make you a blooming circus judge. I'm surprised Uncle Tom isn't Lord Chancellor by now.

• Mrs. Whittaker : I've taken to the bar rather late in life, I'm afraid.

  Horace Rumpole : Ah, just as well. The young can't stand the pace.

• Samuel 'Soapy Sam' Ballard, Q.C. : I think you were away sick when we agreed to take her on.

  Horace Rumpole : Oh, I was dying.

  Samuel 'Soapy Sam' Ballard, Q.C. : [Smiling]  Really?

  Horace Rumpole : I changed my mind.