Murdoch Mysteries (TV Series)

The Write Stuff (2022)

Seán Cullen: Rudyard Kipling

Quotes 

• Inspector Thomas Brackenreid : If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, if all men count with you, but none too much. If you can fill the unforgiving minute, with 60 seconds' worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and which is more, you'll be a man, my son!

  Rudyard Kipling : Truer words were never spoken, If I may say so myself.

  Inspector Thomas Brackenreid : I don't disagree. I think it's one of your most brilliant pieces.

  Rudyard Kipling : And hot off the presses, too. If by committing my new poem, if, to memory you are trying to grovel back an autograph, It's working.

  Inspector Thomas Brackenreid : I don't grovel. I'm here to tell you that the man of virtue described in your poem is not the man that sits before me. And I'd sooner have the bartender's autograph than yours. Oh, and, uh, I picked up your tab so you don't stiff him again. Men of virtue pay their bills, sir.