To Serve Them All My Days (1980–1981)

Alan MacNaughtan: Howarth

Quotes 

• [talking about the death of Alcock] 

  Howarth : That's that, and I hope to God nobody asks me to comment. The thing I find hardest to tolerate is hypocrisy, especially when it takes the form of a sentimental regard for the dead just because they *are* dead. To hear some people talk, you'd think dying was limited to the chosen few.

• Howarth : Some men can live the celibate life. I don't fancy you're one of them.

  David Powlett-Jones : What did *you* do about women all these years?

  Howarth : [pauses, smiles]  Your appetite for sordid revelations never ceases to astonish me.

• Howarth : Anyone who doubts that a new dark age is coming upon us has only to spend a few hours with lower fourth. I despair, I despair. I am, as you all know, a pacifist by nature and conviction; but if a German soldier were attacking Pinkerton Minor, I'd be hard put to it not to come to his aid. The German soldier's, I mean.