Wives and Daughters (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.3 (1999)

Bill Paterson: Mr. Gibson

Quotes 

• Mr. Gibson : Is this true Cynthia?

  Cynthia Kirkpatrick : Molly knows it all.

  Mr. Gibson : Yes, I know that and that she has had to endure gossip and slander for your sake. But more she refused to tell me.

  Cynthia Kirkpatrick : Oh, she told you that much did she?

  Molly Gibson : I couldn't help it.

  Cynthia Kirkpatrick : Why did you have to say anything at all?

  Mr. Gibson : Because her reputation was attacked for your misconduct and I demanded an explanation.

• Claire Gibson : Don't be angry dear, for a minute there I thought you were going to lose your temper.

  Mr. Gibson : It would have been of no use.

• Mr. Gibson : Content yourself my dear. Roger Hamley is as fine as young man as ever breathed, with money or without. I only wish my Molly could meet with such another.

  Claire Gibson : I will try for Molly.

  Mr. Gibson : No, no, no, no, no. That is one thing I forbid. I will have no *trying* for Molly.

• Claire Gibson : I don't know what you mean by proximate.

  Mr. Gibson : Well go into the surgery and look it up then.

• Molly Gibson : Papa, how can you waste one of our precious evenings? We have only six evenings and I reckoned on us doing all sorts of things.

  Mr. Gibson : What sorts of things?

  Molly Gibson : Oh I don't know, everything that's ungenteel and unrefined.

  Mr. Gibson : By toil and labour I've reached the fair height of refinement and I won't be pulled down again.

  Molly Gibson : Oh yes you will for a week.

• Mr. Gibson : If you want us to sympathise Hyacinth, you'll have to tell us what the matter is.