Dangerous Knowledge (TV Series)
Comprehensive Cover (1976)
Prunella Ransome: Laura
Photos
Quotes
-
Laura Marshall : Thank you for all the heaving and conveying you've done for me.
Bill Kirby : Well, any chivalrous cart horse would have done the same.
-
Bill Kirby : What would you like? Champagne? Vodka? Vermouth? Campari?
Laura Marshall : Tea.
Bill Kirby : Oof. A bizarre addiction, I always thought.
-
Laura Marshall : Do you always go to this much trouble?
Bill Kirby : How do you mean?
Laura Marshall : To pick up a woman.
Bill Kirby : Well, only if they're younger than me - which they always are these days - and exceptionally beautiful.
Laura Marshall : I may be younger than you, but otherwise you've just lost out.
-
Laura Marshall : What is your business, Mr. Kirby?
Bill Kirby : Why don't you go and take the wheel down below.
-
Bill Kirby : I sell insurance, that's what I do for a living.
Laura Marshall : What sort of insurance?
Bill Kirby : Oh, life mostly. Company pension schemes; that sort of thing. Oh I do all right, but I've got a lot of expenses so I do a bit of freelance work on my own account... other kinds of insurance.
Laura Marshall : What kind?
Bill Kirby : Oh, this and that. It's a bit specialised.
Laura Marshall : Gets you followed by armed men.
-
[Kirby opens another bottle of whiskey]
Laura Marshall : You drink quite a lot, don't you?
Bill Kirby : Oh, no. I spill most of it.