Parade's End (TV Mini Series)
Episode #1.1 (2012)
Stephen Graham: Vincent Macmaster
Quotes
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[at breakfast, Reverend Duchemin is about to say grace, but he is drunk and becoming very offensive]
Reverend Duchemin : [to MacMaster] You look tired. Worn out. I detect the pallor of self-abuse.
[Reverend Horsley splutters as he drinking a cup of tea]
Christopher Tietjens : [mutters to Valentine Wannop] Don't turn round. Vincent MacMaster is quite capable.
Reverend Duchemin : Post coitum tristia. Ah, the sorrows of spent semen. Boys - or girls in your case.
Parry : Sir, your fish is getting cold. I'll bring the kidneys.
Vincent Macmaster : [mutters to Edith Duchemin] If he'll eat a little, it brings the blood down from the head.
Edith Duchemin : Oh, forgive. It's dreadful for you.
Vincent Macmaster : My dear lady, please don't worry. It's what I'm for.
Edith Duchemin : Oh, you good man.
[Duchemin rambles on in Latin]
Vincent Macmaster : [mutters to Edith Duchemin] I can stop this. Shall I?
Edith Duchemin : Yes - anything.
[MacMaster gets up and goes to have quiet word with Parry]
Reverend Duchemin : [smiling at Miss Fox] ... the lament of the wife of the boy-buggerer: "My dear, I have an arsehole too!"
[Miss Fox smiles back at him - being stone deaf she has not heard a word he's said]
Vincent Macmaster : [to Parry] Get him out. The way you beat Kid Cantor at Hackney baths.
Reverend Duchemin : "Alas, my dear, with women it's more a case of having two cun..."
[Parry goes up to Duchemin and knees him in the groin]
Parry : [pretending to help him] You all right, sir? It's time to write your sermon, sir. Ready, there we go.
[Parry helps Duchemin, who is considerable pain, out of the room]
Vincent Macmaster : [to Edith] Dear lady, it's all over now.
Edith Duchemin : Please forgive. You can *never* respect me.
Vincent Macmaster : You're the bravest woman I know.
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Vincent Macmaster : [on Sylvia] I wish you would divorce her. Drag her through the mud.
Christopher Tietjens : In a gentleman, there is such a thing as... call it parade.
Vincent Macmaster : And if you met someone you wanted to marry?
Christopher Tietjens : It will change nothing. I stand for monogamy. Aye, monogamy and chastity.