Quotes from To The Manor BornIf you're asking me to judge the vegetables at the village show then the answer's no. Some people still aren't speaking to me from last year. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith). To Arnold Plunkett in episode 3.7 Marjory: "I suppose he's absolutely stinking rich." On the subject of Audrey's Uncle Greville in episode 3.6 Well I know we're supposed to live in a throwaway society; but I promise you, Marjory, I have absolutely nothing left to throw away. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith). Responding to Marjory's request for jumble in episode 3.5 Audrey: "Am I right in supposing that a Bee-Eater eats bees?" Audrey is not pleased to learn of a rare bird moving into the vicinity in episode 3.4 I never seem to get any white envelopes these days: only brown ones with those nasty little windows so the postman can tell everyone how much you owe. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith). Audrey laments her drop in social status in episode 3.3 My Grandfather used to have his eggs timed by the passing trains. If they were hard-boiled he had the driver sacked. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith). Reminiscing the fforbes-Hamilton family's influence of old in episode 3.2 All the times they've helped his mother across the road! In spite of her resistance. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith). On Richard's obligations to the local Scout group in episode 3.1 Audrey: "What on earth is that smell?" Audrey is visited by an ill Marjory in episode 2.6 Audrey: "Was this meeting properly advertised?" Audrey and Marjory discuss the low turnout at a conservation meeting in episode 2.5 Audrey: "He comes here every year to help with the slurry carting. And in return we feed him, we let him sleep in the barn, we clean him up and sometimes we give him one of Marton's old suits to see him on his way." On the subject of casual labourer Arthur Smith in episode 2.4 Audrey: "How do you persuade people to buy a 'Brotschrank'? I don't even know what it is." Audrey interrogates a salesman in episode 2.3 We'll tell her there's been a dreadful mistake: that it's full moon tonight and DeVere is liable to go off his head. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith). Audrey suggests a reason to prevent Podge from sleeping at the Manor in episode 2.2 You'd think in this day and age they could make a supermarket trolley so all the wheels go in the same direction. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith). After her first supermarket shopping trip in episode 2.1 Why don't you go the whole hog and have a neon sign saying 'DeVere's Pork Pies'? Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith). On the subject of Richard's crib in episode 1.8 Most of our historic houses are no longer lived in by Dukes and Duchesses; they're full of Arabs and pop stars, or they've been taken over by the gas board and turned into rest houses for exhausted meter-readers. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith). To director Bob Roberts on the subject of ancestral homes in episode 1.7 I am not an interest, Marjory. You make me sound like a stamp collection or a brass rubbing. I'm an infatuation. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith). On Richard's feelings for her in episode 1.6 Audrey: "Don't be fooled by the suntan, and the hair attractively greying at the temples, and that mysterious aura of power." A conversation concerning Richard in episode 1.5 Audrey: "Ugh! My bathwater comes from that! I've washed in that, I've drunk it, I've even arranged flowers in that water!" Brabinger has discovered a pigeon floating in the water tank in episode 1.4 To think that Grantleigh is in the hands of a man who has no interest in farming, doesn't go to church and now, it turns out, hasn't even heard of Winnie-The-Pooh. You think A.A. Milne is a motoring organisation, I suppose. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith). To Richard on his deficiencies as Lord of the Manor in episode 1.3 You may have just bought a piece of English history, but you don't own anything. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith). To Richard on the subject of his responsibilities in episode 1.2 You can always tell when they've been: they help themselves to After Eights and leave the wrappers. It's very embarrassing when I find myself offering a box of waste paper to the Lord Lieutenant. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith). On the subject of having the staff 'in' the house in episode 1.1 |

