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To Serve Them All My Days (TV series) Quotes

To Serve Them All My Days is a Dramatic programming that was first aired in 1980 on BBC One. To Serve Them All My Days completed its run in 1981.

To Serve Them All My Days aired for 13 episodes. It features Ken Riddington as producer.

To Serve Them All My Days is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of To Serve Them All My Days is 50 minutes long. To Serve Them All My Days is produced by BBC; Australian Broadcasting Commission.

The cast includes: Alan MacNaughtan as Howarth, John Duttine as David Powlett-Jones, Susan Jameson as Christine Forster, Frank Middlemass as Algy Herries, John Welsh as Cordwainer, Simon Gipps-Kent as Boyer, Nicholas Lyndhurst as Dobson, and Patricia Lawrence as Ellie Herries.

To Serve Them All My Days Quotes

Alan MacNaughtan as Howarth

  • (Alan MacNaughtan) "Some men can live the celibate life. I don't fancy you're one of them."
  • (John Duttine) "What did you do about women all these years?"
  • (Alan MacNaughtan) "Your appetite for sordid revelations never ceases to astonish me."
  • (Alan MacNaughtan) "That's that, and I hope to God nobody asks me to comment. The thing I find hardest to tolerate is hypocrisy, especially when it takes the form of a sentimental regard for the dead just because they are dead. To hear some people talk, you'd think dying was limited to the chosen few."
  • (Alan MacNaughtan) "Anyone who doubts that a new dark age is coming upon us has only to spend a few hours with lower fourth. I despair, I despair. I am, as you all know, a pacifist by nature and conviction; but if a German soldier were attacking Pinkerton Minor, I'd be hard put to it not to come to his aid. The German soldier's, I mean."

John Welsh as Cordwainer

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Susan Jameson as Christine Forster

  • (Susan Jameson) "Rowley was my moral tutor at Durham University. In this capacity, he introduced me to socialism -- then to his bed -- then married me, much to the disgust of his grand family. And he quarreled with me. Finally he left me. Nothing stuck except the socialism. See? No scars."

John Duttine as David Powlett-Jones

  • (John Duttine) "Why did you wait 'til now to tell me?"
  • (Unnamed) "Well -- at first I was nervous. And -- then I realized I wanted to go to bed with you one last time. And you are such a gentleman, David, I -- I knew you wouldn't let me if I told you."
  • (John Duttine) "When I was a young boy -- much younger than any of you here, I went to school one morning, leaving behind a father and three brothers working on the early shift. That's 4am to midday. When I got home that evening, my father and two of my brothers were dead. Their bodies were never recovered. It was judged to be too expensive to be worth it."
  • (John Duttine) "Good God, man, if you expelled every boy who told a lie or made a bet you'd have no pupils left to pitch up and bully."
  • (John Duttine) "This is my first go at teaching; teaching schoolboys, that is. Up till now, the only teaching I've done is trying to teach recruits to look after themselves and not get shot their first week out. There wasn't time to be patient, see, and I never had to learn to suffer fools gladly. That might take me a bit of time, Mr. Dobson. Until I do, maybe you'd better keep your head down, eh?"

Simon Gipps-Kent as Boyer

  • (Unnamed) "Look at him pounding away. Do you think he's got a screw loose?"
  • (Simon Gipps-Kent) "Of course he has. Wouldn't be here otherwise. Mind you, he's his own special sort of loony."
  • (Unnamed) "Might be a spy."
  • (Simon Gipps-Kent) "What, reporting back to the Kaiser on Killer Carter and the Corps? No, he's just a pro-Hun loony. Pro-Jerry loony? Well, he should know."
  • (Nicholas Lyndhurst) "I'll bet he won't last long."
  • (Simon Gipps-Kent) "No, more's the pity. Well, he's interesting, anyway."
  • (Simon Gipps-Kent) "Do you remember, sir, back in the fifth, you said that if we wanted to know what war was really like, we should read that? You said you'd lost your own copy at Ypres or somewhere."
  • (John Duttine) "I wouldn't have expected anyone to remember that."
  • (Simon Gipps-Kent) "What you said about it then, sir, was that it helped you get through. No matter how bad things were at the front, those 18th century soldiers had it worse, and if Sergeant Bourgogne could get through his war, then, well, maybe you could get through yours."
  • (John Duttine) "I said all that, did I?"
  • (Simon Gipps-Kent) "I thought it might help, sir. Well, you know, now."

Frank Middlemass as Algy Herries

  • (Frank Middlemass) "I always like it when people say "with the greatest respect." It always means they're going to be rude."
  • (Frank Middlemass) "Ellie, my dear, he thought I was going to sack him."
  • (Patricia Lawrence) "Oh, he'd never do that. You're Algy's bright idea. I'm afraid failure isn't a possible option for you."

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