Fawlty Towers (TV Series)

A Touch of Class (1975)

Michael Gwynn: Lord Melbury

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Quotes 

• Basil Fawlty : Your NAME, please. Could I have your name?

  Lord Melbury : Melbury.

  [the phone rings; Basil picks it up] 

  Basil Fawlty : [to Melbury]  One second, please.

  Basil Fawlty : [to phone]  Hello?... Ah, yes, Mr. O'Reilly. Well, it's perfectly simple. Ah, when I asked you to build me a wall, I was rather hoping that instead of just, uh, dumping the bricks in a pile you might have found time to cement them together, you know, one on top of the other in the traditional fashion.

  Basil Fawlty : [to Melbury, testily]  Could you fill it in, please?

  Basil Fawlty : [to phone]  Oh, splendid! Ah, yes-yes-yes, ah, but WHEN, Mr O'Reilly?

  Basil Fawlty : [to Melbury, who is having difficulty with the register]  There-there-there!

  Basil Fawlty : [to phone]  Yes-yes-yes, but when? Yes, yes... yes, yes... ah!... the flu! Yes.

  Basil Fawlty : [to Melbury]  BOTH names, please.

  Basil Fawlty : [to phone]  Yes, I should have guessed, Mr. O'Reilly. That and the potato famine I suppose.

  Lord Melbury : I beg your pardon?

  Basil Fawlty : Would you put BOTH your names, please?

  Basil Fawlty : [to phone]  Well, will you give me a DATE?

  Lord Melbury : Er... I only use one.

  Basil Fawlty : [with a withering look]  You don't have a first name?

  Lord Melbury : No, I am Lord Melbury, so I simply sign "Melbury".

  [there is a long, long pause] 

  Basil Fawlty : [to phone]  Go away.

  Basil Fawlty : [puts phone down]  I'm SO sorry to have kept you waiting, your lordship. I DO apologize. Please, please, accept my forgiveness. Now, is there something, ah, something, anything, that I can do for you? Anything at all?

• Basil Fawlty : ...Arh, Lord Melbury. May I introduce my wife?

  Lord Melbury : Yes, we have meet.

  Basil Fawlty : My wife, may I introduce your lordship.

  Sybil Fawlty : Thank you, Basil, we've sorted it out.

  Basil Fawlty : Splendid, splendid.

• Basil Fawlty : Your lordship, may I offer you a little aperitif... as our guest?

  Lord Melbury : That's very kind of you... dry sherry if you please.

  Basil Fawlty : [to the Major]  What else? Such... oh, I don't know what...

  Major Gowen : Je ne sais quoi?

  Basil Fawlty : Exactly! Exactly!

• Basil Fawlty : Now, about my priceless collection of coins?

  Lord Melbury : Oh, yes, ah, do you still...

  Basil Fawlty : Do I still want you to take them to be valued by the Duke of Buckleigh, milord?

  Lord Melbury : Ah, yes.

  Basil Fawlty : No, I don't. Because we've just heard that the Duke of Buckleigh is dead! Yes, got his head knocked off by a golf ball. Tragic! Tragic!