As Time Goes By (TV Series)

Welcome News (1995)

Geoffrey Palmer: Lionel Hardcastle

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Lionel : [on one knee proposing]  I fell in love with you the first day I met you. And I don't think I've ever stopped loving you. Well, that's it really.

  Jean : I love you too.

  Lionel : Well, that's good.

  Jean : Can I say yes now?

  Lionel : Yes, please.

  Jean : Yes.

  Lionel : There's always something, isn't there?

  Jean : What is it?

  Lionel : My knee's locked.

  Jean : It doesn't matter.

• [an obnoxious Hollywood producer has come to London to see Lionel] 

  Alistair : Mike Barbosa stepped off a plane this morning.

  Lionel : Is it too much to hope that it was in midair at the time?

• [first lines] 

  Lionel : Nice to be on our own.

  Jean : Yes, it is.

  Lionel : We seem to have been overwhelmed by people lately.

  Jean : I wouldn't say overwhelmed.

  Lionel : I would.

  Jean : I sometimes think there's a hermit in you, trying to get out. You'd be perfectly happy living in a cave somewhere.

  Lionel : Would you move in with me?

  Jean : Only if it had central heating