TV QuotesDatabase
SEASON 1

Absolute Power · Season 1

Absolute Power Season 1 quotes

61 quotes · page 3 of 5

S1 E15Unfinished Business

Doesn't time fly when you're cocking things up?

It has been something of a learning curve.

A learning curve. Ah yes, you don't feel it's been more of an arrow pointing downwards, do you?

Martin, when a potential new client comes to this office, you do not stand behind him with a sign saying "Loony Warning".

Somebody did ring. I got all the way to the phone. Then I suddenly realised I couldn't be arsed.

Nigel, are you familiar with your arse? Because your wife has just saved it. Now get us a drink.

AJAlison Jackman

Do you have any ethics at all?.

Now there's a theological question.

Surely one agency can’t possibly represent two people going for the same job. There must be rules about this sort of thing. Like, I don’t know, estate agents not acting for buyer and seller.

Not only can you represent the buyer and the seller, but you can steal all the light bulbs, pee in the sink and then go and live in the house after they’ve bought it. PR means never having to say you’re wrong. But…at the risk of sounding like your Uncle Albert, this is our little secret, alright?

JSJulia Stour (editor of the Daily News)

It's a tabloid; three words is virtually War and Peace.

[Referring to a name on adultery suspect list] She's been dead for five years.

I thought she went to live in Portugal.

A not dissimilar experience.

A sound gun on a windy night fails to distinguish between two words that fall similarly on the ear. Could it be that the minister is in fact saying, "What's a boy to do to get a fox round here?"

HLord Harcourt

Now, one of you I've met before, and the other one has the brains. Which is which? [to Charles] I think you must be Jimmy.

Er, Charles, sir. A bit like Jimmy, but all the letters are different.

HLord Harcourt

What? You'll have to speak up; I've got aids in both ears.

I said...you've got what?!

There's nothing even Prentiss-McCabe can teach this Prime Minister about deception. Except how to do it properly, I suppose.

Charles, does it occur to you that Archie must have been promoted?

What?

Well, somebody must have replaced their media supremo, whatever his name was...Alas-it's-a Shambles.

Clive, what in the name of aquatic insanity possessed you to introduce a shoal of piranha between Putney and Mortlake?!

These quotes come from Wikiquote's Absolute Power pages and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.