Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Show Folk (1979)

Leo McKern: Horace Rumpole

Quotes 

• Jarvis Allen : Jealousy might be a powerful motive for our client. That's a two-edged sword, Rumpole.

  Horace Rumpole : Two edged? Yes, most swords are.

• Jarvis Allen : I can't think of anyone on this circuit carrying on with a case after his leader had been sacked. It's not in the best traditions of the Bar.

  Horace Rumpole : Yes, well, of course, loyalty to one's leader, it is extremely important, but one mustn't forget the other great legal maxim, must one?

  Jarvis Allen : Why, what's that?

  Horace Rumpole : The show must go on!

• [Rumpole is examining a broken mirror in the victim's dressing room] 

  Daniel Derwent : Any help to you, is it?

  Horace Rumpole : Oh, it might be. It's what we lawyers call the "locus in quo".

  Daniel Derwent : Do you really? How frightfully camp of you! It's what we actors call a dressing room.