Waiting for God (TV Series)

The Christening (1990)

Stephanie Cole: Diana Trent

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Quotes 

• Tom Ballard : Why do you always have to disagree with me?

  Diana Trent : One should always disagree with everyone about everything on principle. Conflict is what keeps you alive.

  Tom Ballard : But what for?

  Diana Trent : Why, to disagree with people. I've just said that. Don't you ever listen to me?

  Tom Ballard : You disagree with people to keep alive to disagree with people.

  Diana Trent : Yes.

  Tom Ballard : Having a conversation with you is like jumping off a cliff. However exhilarating it is to start with, you know there's going to come a time when you are really going to regret it.

• Harvey Bains : We don't often get a chance, you know, interface on a one to one basis.

  Diana : Interface?

  Harvey Bains : Communicate, interrelate.

  Diana : Oh, you mean talk to each other.

  Harvey Bains : I couldn't have put it better myself.

  Diana : So you've just proved.

• Tom : Stop going on about me. This caring attitude doesn't suit you. Just tell me what the hell is going on or, or I'll, I'll... I'll drag you into that bed with me.

  [Diana just stares at him] 

  Tom : Well?

  Diana : My lips are sealed.

• [last lines] 

  Diana : You dirty old man!

  Tom : No, no, you don't understand.

  Diana : Oh, I think I do. You bloody old fool.

• [first lines] 

  Diana : [reading brochure]  Play now, pay later; join the 18-30 club.

  Tom : Oh, just the ticket.

  Diana : Don't be so silly, Tom. For you they'd need a 70-dead club.

  Tom : What a terrible idea!

  Diana : Money back if you conk out before take-off; all windsurfers equipped with walking frames; complimentary oxygen in every room.

  Tom : That's enough, Diana.

  Diana : You know, you and I ought to go to some of these resorts; parade naked up and down the beaches with placards saying: "Hello, young people, we are your future."

  Tom : That is quite appalling.

• Diana Trent : Stop this quaintly dotty non-sequential stuff, this phony senility. It won't wash with me. You're quite capable of logical reasoning, so just stop trying to fill the role of the charmingly barmy old codger. You want to watch out - they'll start believing it's the real you. They'll start patting you on the knee and talking slowly and carefully. And then you'll start nodding and smiling and then they'll be saying you're not long for this world, you've had a good run for your money and you won't want to disappoint them so you'll have a stroke just to be obliging. And then when you're paralysed and dribbling, they'll start talking at you even louder and because you can't reply they'll think you can't think or hear either so they won't even leave the room when they discuss how they'll redecorate it after you've gone. And hasn't anyone asked the quack how much longer you'll be and aren't you being a bit selfish hanging on for yet another winter and don't you realise there's another generation knocking at the door?