The Avengers (TV Series)

A Sense of History (1966)

John Barron: Henge

Quotes 

• John Pettit : I take it, that if someone were to suggest that one man in the right place and at the right time could himself change the course of history, you would disagree?

  Dr. Gordon Henge : Mr. Pettit, since I have spent the last hour saying so, you may take it that I would disagree.

• Richard Carlyon : I think what Pettit was trying to suggest, sir, is that for the past...

  [looks at his watch] 

  Richard Carlyon : ... eh, 53 minutes, you have assaulted our ears with a load of stupid, pretentious old rubbish.

  Dr. Gordon Henge : Mr. Duboys, you have the manners of a gutter snipe!