- Fred Timson: It's, uh, young Jim's first, uh, appearance, like, at the Bailey.
- Horace Rumpole: [to himself] Ah, his Bar Mitzvah, his First Communion!
- Horace Rumpole: [musing to himself] Ah, the Timsons, en famille, in all their glory. It's like an old school reunion. I've never seen so many ex-clients at one go.
- [out loud]
- Horace Rumpole: Ah, Mr. Bernard. You're instructing me?
- Mr. Bernard: Always, in a Timson case, Mr. Rumpole.
- Fred Timson: Nothing but the best for the Timsons. Best solicitor, best barrister going. Shall I do the honours? Vi, my wife.
- Horace Rumpole: [to himself] I got Vi off on a handling charge, after the Croydon bank raid. Well, there was really no evidence.
- Fred Timson: ...Uncle Cyril...
- Horace Rumpole: [to himself] What was his last outing, exactly? Carrying housebreaking instruments by night.
- Fred Timson: ...Uncle Dennis. Oh, you remember Den, surely ?
- Horace Rumpole: [to himself] Oh yes. Conspiracy to forge log books.
- Fred Timson: ...and Den's Doris...
- Horace Rumpole: [to himself] A bit of receiving a vast quantity of stolen scampi. Yes, acquitted by a majority.
- Fred Timson: ...and yours truly, Frederick Timson, the boy's father.
- Horace Rumpole: [to himself] Ah, we had a slip-up with Fred's last spot of bother. I was away, with flu. George Frobisher took it over. He got three years. He must only just have got out.
- Fred Timson: Well, now you know the whole family, Mr. Rumpole.
- Horace Rumpole: [to himself] A family to breed from, the Timsons! Without them, the Old Bailey would go out of business.
- Albert: We got the papers in your indecent assault, Mr Erskine-Brown, down in Lambeth.
- Erskine-Brown: Oh really? I told you I wanted something on the civil side. I'm sick to death of crime.
- Horace Rumpole: [as he enters the room] A person who is sick of crime is sick of life, Erskine-Brown.
- Mr Justice Everglade: I imagine your client *says* he was not ejusdem generis with the other lads.
- Horace Rumpole: [sarcastically] Ejusdem generis, my Lord? Oh yes, he's always saying that. Ejusdem generis is a phrase in constant use in his part of Brixton.
- [laughter from the jury]