Richard O'Sullivan: Dick Turpin

Quotes 

• Col Tranter : You are a swaggering cockscone!

  Dick Turpin : [posing as Spiker]  Don't you call me names, or you will live to regret it!

  Col Tranter : A swaggering cockscone, a damned huffsnuff, a rogue, a rascal, a villian!

  Dick Turpin : You stupid old twit! I'll cut your heart out!

• Dick Turpin : I turned you into a hero and now Spiker's turned you back into a jellyfish.

  Ffoulkes-Withers : I'll hang myself if he marries her now.

  Dick Turpin : The rope would break.

• Phylida : I've always wanted to meet you. I read all the broadsheets. Father says he'll take me to your execution.

  Dick Turpin : Oh, lovely. I promise to wave.

• Phylida : I know all the stories about you.

  Dick Turpin : Oh, do you now? Yeah, well they're all lies.

  Phylida : How you rode to York...

  Dick Turpin : That wasn't me, that was Nevison.

  Phylida : ...and danced the carenata with a lady on Hounslow Heath.

  Dick Turpin : That was Duval.

  Phylida : And played dice with the Dutches?

  Dick Turpin : That was Colet. You really musn't trust all you read in those broadsheets.

• Phylida : [Spiker is aiming his pistol at Dick and Swiftnick]  But you can't shoot them down in cold blood.

  Dick Turpin : That's the only kind he's got. There's lizards, snakes and Spiker.