The Avengers (TV Series)
Silent Dust (1965)
Patrick Macnee: John Steed
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Quotes
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John Steed : [Peel is steering a gondola, Steed is relaxing in it under a woman's umbrella] Tired?
Emma Peel : [she places the rowing ore firmly in the ground] Exhausted.
John Steed : No stamina.
Emma Peel : [sits down next to him] No comment.
John Steed : I know just how you feel.
Emma Peel : How? How would you know?
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John Steed : [taking a sip] Ah, I like a wine that bites back.
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John Steed : [looking through Quince's glasses] Cut off in mid-warble?
Emma Peel : I haven't heard from him since.
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John Steed : By the way, how's your connection with industrial science?
Emma Peel : Well oiled.
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John Steed : [waking up from a dream in which Emma was a cowboy with a moustache] I prefer you clean shaven.
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John Steed : What a nice gun.
Peter Omrod : Should be. Wheaterby's.
John Steed : I've got it's brother, only with a walnut stock.
John Steed : [grabs a gun off the wall] Better use them while we can, hadn't we?
Peter Omrod : What do you mean?
John Steed : Birds are getting scarcer minute by minute.
Peter Omrod : I hadn't heard?
John Steed : Oh, you'd better ask your gamekeeper. Mellors?
[loads cartridge into gun]
John Steed : He mistook me for a partridge. Seriously ruffled my, eh, wing feathers.
[also loads his gun]
Peter Omrod : Oh, I must speak to him. I must tell him to be a little more...
John Steed : Accurate?
[cocks gun]
Peter Omrod : Careful.
[cocks gun]
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Emma Peel : [about to lift off in a hot air balloon] Are you sure you know how to control one of these things, Steed?
John Steed : Absolutely, my dear, nothing to worry about. Just a question of throwing ballast overboard.
Emma Peel : And what happens when we run out of ballast?
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John Steed : [Of fox hunting] The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.