Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Married Lady (1978)

Leo McKern: Horace Rumpole

Quotes 

• Horace Rumpole : Lawyers and tarts, Miss Trant, the two oldest professions in the world, and we always aim to please!

• Horace Rumpole : An Englishman's gin bottle is his castle.

• Phyllida Trant : We don't *have* to prove cruelty, do we, Mr Rumpole? It's "intolerable conduct" since the Divorce Law Reform Act, 1969.

  Horace Rumpole : [to himself]  It's not the frivolity that makes women intolerable. It's the ghastly *enthusiasm* - that mustard keenness to get into the lacrosse team, that relentless drive to learn the Divorce Law Reform Act by heart. That, and the French perfume.

• Hilda Rumpole : You're going to seed. You can't even keep a divorce case going.

  Horace Rumpole : [to Hilda]  Do you know *why* my divorce case collapsed under me? The clients were reconciled.

  Horace Rumpole : [to himself]  Because how ever awful it is, how ever silent and unendurable it is, how ever much they may hate each others' guts over the three-piece chintz-covered lounge suite, they can't stand to be alone.

  Horace Rumpole : [to Hilda]  Isn't that strange, Hilda? They'd rather have war together than a lonely peace.