Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Miscarriage of Justice (1992)

Leo McKern: Horace Rumpole

Quotes 

• Horace Rumpole : Even judges are human. Not many people know that.

• Guthrie Featherstone, QC MP : [after realizing he has missed his bus]  I shouldn't have stood here chattering to you, Rumpole. I must be a complete idiot.

  Horace Rumpole : [after Featherstone runs for a taxi]  Is that a confession we can accept as the truth, my lord?

• Horace Rumpole : There is no evidence more unreliable than a confession. Don't imagine people ever tell the truth about themselves.

• [Rumpole has just got back from the supermarket] 

  Horace Rumpole : Your sugar, Madam.

  Hilda Rumpole : Sugar, for a baked pudding.

  Horace Rumpole : Excellent. I relish the Rumpole roly-poly.

  Hilda Rumpole : [disdainfully]  Rumpole, this sugar is in lumps. What am I suppose to do? Jump up and down on it?

  Horace Rumpole : Well, do your best.