Richard O'Sullivan: Dick Turpin

Quotes 

• Dick Turpin : Swiftnick, what I do with my snatch is my affair.

  Swiftnick : But if you don't give it away, you loose it at dice or throw it away on dollys. We could have been rich by now!

  Dick Turpin : You sound like a banker.

• Dick Turpin : Swiftnick, you take Bess again and I'll skewer you!

• Jane Harding : Don't you come near me.

  Dick Turpin : Now what are you doing trying to nick one of our nags?

• Swiftnick : Are all the women in America as talkative as you?

  Dick Turpin : [Jane does not answer]  Must be paradise.

• Jem Clanton : Who's this?

  Dick Turpin : Oh, that's eh, Swiftnick. I'm... minding him for his mother.

• Jem Clanton : You remember Jerry Wilkinson?

  Dick Turpin : Yeah.

  Jem Clanton : Yeah, they hanged him.

  [snickers] 

  Jem Clanton : Drew a good crowd. Made a lovely speach. Lovely. And then, then... he picked the hangman's pocket!

  [shrieks with laughter] 

  Jem Clanton : What a jest! Oh, I could have died laughing. In fact, he did.

• Dick Turpin : Forgive me, Mr. Bridger, for calling you a villain. I was mistaken. You're no villain, sir. You are a niggotly, sticking, scurvy, cowardly son of a sow. What do you say to that, sir?

• Swiftnick : I'm hungry.

  Dick Turpin : So you should be. Hungry as a hunter.

• Dick Turpin : You're not from these parts are you?

  [Jane, clad only in Turpin's cloak because her clothes are drying refuses to answer] 

  Dick Turpin : Come on, where you from?

  [still no reply] 

  Dick Turpin : Well, if you've lost you're tongue, you won't need my cloak.

  [makes a grab for it] 

  Jane Harding : Maryland!

  Swiftnick : Where's is that?

  Jane Harding : America.

  Dick Turpin : Oh I see. Come over here to learn the language, have ya?

• Dick Turpin : [referring to Saul, Bridger's slave]  So a man can be bought, Bridger, can he, like a piece of furniture?

  Noll Bridger : Or a horse. Or a greyhound anything else I pay money for. What do you say?