Parade's End (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.1 (2012)

Benedict Cumberbatch: Christopher Tietjens

Quotes 

• [at breakfast, Reverend Duchemin is about to say grace, but he is drunk and becoming very offensive] 

  Reverend Duchemin : [to MacMaster]  You look tired. Worn out. I detect the pallor of self-abuse.

  [Reverend Horsley splutters as he drinking a cup of tea] 

  Christopher Tietjens : [mutters to Valentine Wannop]  Don't turn round. Vincent MacMaster is quite capable.

  Reverend Duchemin : Post coitum tristia. Ah, the sorrows of spent semen. Boys - or girls in your case.

  Parry : Sir, your fish is getting cold. I'll bring the kidneys.

  Vincent Macmaster : [mutters to Edith Duchemin]  If he'll eat a little, it brings the blood down from the head.

  Edith Duchemin : Oh, forgive. It's dreadful for you.

  Vincent Macmaster : My dear lady, please don't worry. It's what I'm for.

  Edith Duchemin : Oh, you good man.

  [Duchemin rambles on in Latin] 

  Vincent Macmaster : [mutters to Edith Duchemin]  I can stop this. Shall I?

  Edith Duchemin : Yes - anything.

  [MacMaster gets up and goes to have quiet word with Parry] 

  Reverend Duchemin : [smiling at Miss Fox]  ... the lament of the wife of the boy-buggerer: "My dear, I have an arsehole too!"

  [Miss Fox smiles back at him - being stone deaf she has not heard a word he's said] 

  Vincent Macmaster : [to Parry]  Get him out. The way you beat Kid Cantor at Hackney baths.

  Reverend Duchemin : "Alas, my dear, with women it's more a case of having two cun..."

  [Parry goes up to Duchemin and knees him in the groin] 

  Parry : [pretending to help him]  You all right, sir? It's time to write your sermon, sir. Ready, there we go.

  [Parry helps Duchemin, who is considerable pain, out of the room] 

  Vincent Macmaster : [to Edith]  Dear lady, it's all over now.

  Edith Duchemin : Please forgive. You can *never* respect me.

  Vincent Macmaster : You're the bravest woman I know.

• Vincent Macmaster : [on Sylvia]  I wish you would divorce her. Drag her through the mud.

  Christopher Tietjens : In a gentleman, there is such a thing as... call it parade.

  Vincent Macmaster : And if you met someone you wanted to marry?

  Christopher Tietjens : It will change nothing. I stand for monogamy. Aye, monogamy and chastity.