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Rumpole of the Bailey (1975)

John Byron: George

Quotes 

• Horace Rumpole : My brilliant client. They're absolutely brilliant, clients, aren't they, George? I mean, he takes an antique dagger and he stabs a young man in the bus queue, outside Lords, at four o'clock in the afternoon. I ask you. Well, I mean, if you *must* go in for that sort of thing, at least do it during the hours of darkness, and if possible, not in the St John's Wood Road.

  George : Who did he stab?

  Horace Rumpole : Oh, a complete stranger. Someone he just felt like stabbing. Absolutely brilliant.

  George : My man decided to rob a dance hall on the night of the Police Ball.

  Horace Rumpole : Hahaha. We only get the stupid villains, George.

  George : Why is that?

  Horace Rumpole : Well, the bright ones are all on holiday in Majorca.