Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)
Rumpole on Trial (1992)
Peter Blythe: Samuel Ballard Q.C.
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Quotes
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Samuel Ballard Q.C. : Ah, Judge. This is a great day for Equity Court. We're celebrating. Mrs. Claude Erskine-Brown elevated to the bench...
Mr. Justice Graves : Yes...
Samuel Ballard Q.C. : ...and her husband in silk.
Mr. Justice Graves : [Taken by surprise] Claude Erskine-Brown?
[With total disdain]
Mr. Justice Graves : They must be giving away silk gowns with pounds of tea nowadays!
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[last lines]
Mr. Justice Graves : [referring to Rumpole] Will he never learn?
Samuel Ballard Q.C. : [With grudging affection] I'm afraid, never!
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[Ballard is defending Rumpole at the disciplinary tribunal]
Samuel Ballard Q.C. : You are known in some quarters as "The Quality of Mercy". Now if there were to be a most humble, contrite apology...
Mr. Justice Oliphant : Rumpole would rather be disbarred than apologise to me.
Samuel Ballard Q.C. : But if he would...
Mr. Justice Oliphant : [gleefully] If he would, it would give him more genuine grief and pain than anything else in the world. I'd enjoy seeing that, I really would.