A Touch of Frost (TV Series)

Not with Kindness (1992)

David Jason: DI Jack Frost

Quotes 

• Frost : Get on the radio to the station, son. Tell Sergeant Wells we've found a body in the churchyard.

• Supt. Mullett : One of these days you'll realize that in order to operate efficiently you'll need more than your well-known intuition.

  Frost : I used more than my well-known intuition, sir, at least in one of the cases I did - I used my charm.

  [pause] 

  Frost : It's a joke, sir, don't bother to work it out.

• [woman protesting she had nothing to do with her husband's death] 

  Frost : I believe you. Or at least, I would have done had I not read the pathologist's report. Your husband suffered a severe blow to the back of the head, and according to the pathologist, he was unconscious *before* the fire started. So, apart from the imaginary Mr. Lawrence Tidyman, who else stood to gain by knocking your husband unconscious and leaving him to die in that fire? You think about it, Mrs. Compton!

• Frost : Do you know what gets right up my nose?

  Sgt. Bill Wells : [Dryly]  Hey, hang on. I've got a list here somewhere. Hey, hang on.

  Frost : No, I tell you what gets right up my nose and that is people who go and live in America and after ten minutes end up talkin' like Katharine flippin' Hepburn. What's on? That's what I like about Scotch people, you know - emigrate all over the world as long as you like and still end up talkin' like Scotch people.

• Supt. Mullett : I've had a telephone call from the vicar of St. Paul's. He's very concerned about this outbreak of vandalism in the old churchyard.

  Frost : I'm not surprised, sir. It's a very grave business.

• [on Mullett's orders to catch graveyard vandals] 

  Frost : I've only got about three blokes who can stand up, let alone chase a box of black magic!

• Supt. Mullett : [on radio]  Although it's only a matter of some three days since the girl's body was discovered in the church crypt, my officers have been working around the clock to bring the perpetrator of this appalling crime to justice, and I can assure your listeners that an arrest will be made very shortly.

  Frost : [listening at home]  Oh, yeah?

• Frost : [Sarcastically to Compton]  Well, should we go inside, sir, or shall we have the interview al fresco?

• Frost : [Sarcastically to his co-workers]  Cover up your animal's eyes and lock up your children - Mr. Mullett's makin' another one of his television appearances.

• Frost : [Sarcastically, to Mrs. Compton]  You know what common people are like. Give us a drop of caviar and we're yellin' for rock salmon.

• [Frost's bossy sister-in-law has come over from America to attend his wife's funeral] 

  Marion : You're not eating your broccoli.

  Frost : I don't like broccoli.

  Marion : It's good for you.

  Frost : Just so you know - I don't like anything green.

  Marion : Well what vegetables *do* you like?

  Frost : Grey ones.