Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole and the Age for Retirement (1979)

Leo McKern: Horace Rumpole

Quotes 

• Professor Julius Kramer : The learned judge seemed to regard you as a senior citizen.

  Horace Rumpole : I'm not all that senior,

  Horace Rumpole : [as an aside]  and he's not all that learned.

• Mr. Glassworth : [referring to life in prison]  Do they still have slopping out?

  Horace Rumpole : Yes, I'm afraid they do.

  Mr. Glassworth : I spent my life in the acquisition of beautiful objects.

  Horace Rumpole : [sarcastically to his instructing solicitor]  I suppose that's what the three years were for!

  Mr. Glassworth : Slopping out! How could I live through it? And the sickening sexual advances of beefy warders.

  Horace Rumpole : [muttering]  Oh, I wouldn't count on that, old darling.

  Mr. Glassworth : What did you say?

  Horace Rumpole : Oh, nothing.

• Horace Rumpole : I've always said that exercise is a short cut to the cemetery.

• Hilda Rumpole : You don't want to die in harness, do you? You remember poor old Daddy died in harness, didn't he?

  Horace Rumpole : [sarcastically]  Oh, really? I thought he died in the Tunbridge General Hospital.

• Horace Rumpole : Birth and death! They silence us all in the end!