Lovejoy · Season 1
[Lovejoy and Charlotte are walking on a path round the edge of a large lawn in the quadrangle of a Cambridge college]
Why don't we just make a beeline across the grass?
Because it would be worse than raping the Chancellor's wife on the altar of King's College Chapel.
Who is the Chancellor?
I think it's the Duke of Edinburgh.
Oh, we'll stick to the path, then. His wife's got enough problems!
The world of art, Mr. Taylor, is connected to the highest aspirations of man.
You've got a determined look in your eye.
What look's that?
The one you get when you're determined.
In life you have to seize the moment, Lovejoy. Death doesn't wait for the time.
You see, what you don't understand about women, Lovejoy, is that we assume men are insincere until they're proven otherwise. For men though it's the other way around.
As much sympathy that I have with the plight of the homeless, I have no intention of experiencing it firsthand.
Well, obviously I'd like to get to know you better, Mary-John - unless that's out of the question, us being kinfolk?
I think we can safely say, cousin, that we're far enough apart in the gene pool.
Lovejoy had a conscience bypass years ago.
[Drinking moonshine] It's smooth, isn't it?
Hope the enamel is still on my teeth!
When people go missing in America, they usually turn up in L.A., don't they?
When are you boys goin' to realize that when a girl says 'no,' she means 'no?'
Well, Lovejoy, you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
What the eye don't see, the heart don't grieve.
I thought this was supposed to be a romantic evening for two!
You were thinking with the wrong part of the anatomy, Gordon.
I'd slit my wrists if I had a razor.
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