The Barchester Chronicles (1982)

Michael Aldridge: Sir Abraham Haphazard

Quotes 

• Sir Abraham Haphazard : Give up this idea, Mr. Harding. A man is never the best judge of his own position.

  Rev. Septimus Harding : A man is the best judge of his own feelings. I would rather beg than see those words written about me in the Jupiter, and know that the man who wrote those words has truth on his side. My God knows whether I love my daughter, but I would rather that she and I begged in the streets, than that she should live in comfort on money which is rightly the property of the poor! I'm sorry. And now you should know that from tomorrow, I shall no longer be Warden of Hiram's Hospital.

  Sir Abraham Haphazard : You should sleep on this, Mr. Harding. Make no hasty decisions.

  Rev. Septimus Harding : I have slept on it. I have done more than sleep upon it, I have lain awake on it, and that night after night. I found I could not sleep upon it. But now - now that I have made my decision, I think I shall sleep again. I shall sleep tonight.