Bless Me, Father (TV Series)

The Season of Goodwill (1979)

Arthur Lowe: Father Charles Clement Duddleswell

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Quotes 

• Mrs. Pring : This is the season of goodwill.

  Father Charles Clement Duddleswell : If it wasn't, I'd tell you there's only three things that a man can't tame, and that's: a pig, a mule and a housekeeper.

  Father Neil Boyd : But in the spirit of the season, you WON'T say it.

  Father Charles Clement Duddleswell : Correct.

• Father Charles Clement Duddleswell : "Goodwill to all" does NOT include sabertooth tigers.

• [the collection plates are found empty and Father D searches the nativity scene for the missing Christmas donations] 

  Father Neil Boyd : What're you doing, Father?

  Father Charles Clement Duddleswell : I'm seein' if the infant Jesus is sittin' on me money.

• Father Charles Clement Duddleswell : I don't take bets in the House of God. Let's shake on it outside.

• Father Charles Clement Duddleswell : ...Father Neil, you got a funeral in the morning at 10 o'clock.

  Father Neil Boyd : Ah, yes.

  Father Charles Clement Duddleswell : Mm.

  Mrs. Pring : Has somebody died?

  Father Charles Clement Duddleswell : No, no, no, not at all, no, no. No, I like burying 'em alive, ya know, sometime.

• Dr. Daley : So Pontius, uh, put the mark of the beast on your bumper?

  Father Charles Clement Duddleswell : He did, indeed, but I'll get me revenge.

  Dr. Daley : Good Catholic sentiments, Charles.

  Father Neil Boyd : Remember, it's Christmastime, Father.

  Dr. Daley : I don't suppose you'd, uh, let me examine the site of the excavations?

  Father Charles Clement Duddleswell : It's in a spot that nature forbids even let ME to look at.

• [Father Duddleswell tries on his freshly mended robe for midnight mass] 

  Father Charles Clement Duddleswell : What do I look like, Mrs. Pring?

  Mrs. Pring : Arsenic and old lace.