Fawlty Towers (TV Series)

The Builders (1975)

David Kelly: O'Reilly

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• O'Reilly : Well, let me tell you, if the good lord meant us to worry, he would'a given us things to worry about.

  Basil Fawlty : He has - My wife! She will be back here in 4 hours and she can kill a man at 10 paces with one blow off her tongue. How am I supposed not to worry?

• O'Reilly : I'm tellin' you, if the good lord...

  Basil Fawlty : ...Is mentioned once more, I shall move you closer to him.

  [Desperately] 

  Basil Fawlty : Now, PLEASE...

• O'Reilly : The trouble with you, Mr. Fawlty, is that you worry too much. You keep it up like this and you'll have a stroke before 50. Stone dead you'll be.

  Basil Fawlty : Suits me.

• Sybil Fawlty : [smiling]  You think I'm joking, don't you?

  Basil Fawlty : Oh, don't smile.

  Sybil Fawlty : Why are you smiling, Mr. O'Reilly?

  O'Reilly : Well, to be perfectly honest, Mrs. Fawlty, I like a woman with spirit.

  Sybil Fawlty : Oh, do you? Is that what you like?

  O'Reilly : I do. I do.

  Sybil Fawlty : Oh, good.

  [Sybil picks up an umbrella] 

  Basil Fawlty : Now, Sybil, that's enough.

  [Sybil hits Basil with the umbrella] 

  Sybil Fawlty : [while hitting O'Reilly repeatedly with the umbrella]  Come on, then. Give us a smile.

• O'Reilly : Just remember, Mr. Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself.

  Basil Fawlty : Is there? Well, I'd like to meet him. I could do with a laugh.