[spoilers] Favorite Quotes?

[Silktie]

Here are some of my favourites that haven't been mentioned yet.

[In response to Millington's comment]
Harry: (beat) "That silence was the sound of incredulous laughter being stifled."

Harry: "Thanks to the excellence of my grammar school education, I am in fact able to tell the time myself."

Harry: "Dear God, Ruth. Is any institution in this country safe from you?"
Ruth: "I like to think not."

Harry: "I've been up all night; my psychic powers are at a low ebb. Please elaborate."

Harry: "It seems we're going to have to grit our teeth and bear the presence of some cousins from Grosvenor Square, who will bring their usual arrogance and overbearing..." [the Americans walk in] "...willingness to share their expertise on this subject."

Harry: "...wrongs righted, evil-doers brought to heel, miracles performed. Is there no end to our goodness Ruth?"

HARRY: “I signed up here because I knew who the enemy was and I wanted to fight them. These days they don’t even have a flag. I preferred it when the bad guys had a flag.”
TOBY: “Least you knew where you were I suppose.”
HARRY: “Gave them something to put on the coffin.”


HARRY: “I presume you’ve called the cavalry?”
TESSA: “Anti Terror Unit and Special Branch should be there in six minutes.”
HARRY: “What are they getting, a tram?”


TESSA: “So we do nothing?”
HARRY: “Oh, we do something. We set up the meeting with McCann and we kill him.”
TESSA: “This isn’t Guatemala...!”
HARRY: “Let me rephrase for faint hearts. We bring about a curtailment to his continuing existence through a proxy.”


HARRY: “Part of the reason for all this trouble stems from the fact that most Americans believe anywhere East of the Hudson is like those blank spaces on medieval maps, where they drew in a monster and wrote ‘Here Be Dragons.’”