The Avengers (TV Series)

Silent Dust (1965)

Patrick Macnee: John Steed

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Quotes 

• John Steed : [Peel is steering a gondola, Steed is relaxing in it under a woman's umbrella]  Tired?

  Emma Peel : [she places the rowing ore firmly in the ground]  Exhausted.

  John Steed : No stamina.

  Emma Peel : [sits down next to him]  No comment.

  John Steed : I know just how you feel.

  Emma Peel : How? How would you know?

• John Steed : [taking a sip]  Ah, I like a wine that bites back.

• John Steed : [looking through Quince's glasses]  Cut off in mid-warble?

  Emma Peel : I haven't heard from him since.

• John Steed : By the way, how's your connection with industrial science?

  Emma Peel : Well oiled.

• John Steed : [waking up from a dream in which Emma was a cowboy with a moustache]  I prefer you clean shaven.

• John Steed : What a nice gun.

  Peter Omrod : Should be. Wheaterby's.

  John Steed : I've got it's brother, only with a walnut stock.

  John Steed : [grabs a gun off the wall]  Better use them while we can, hadn't we?

  Peter Omrod : What do you mean?

  John Steed : Birds are getting scarcer minute by minute.

  Peter Omrod : I hadn't heard?

  John Steed : Oh, you'd better ask your gamekeeper. Mellors?

  [loads cartridge into gun] 

  John Steed : He mistook me for a partridge. Seriously ruffled my, eh, wing feathers.

  [also loads his gun] 

  Peter Omrod : Oh, I must speak to him. I must tell him to be a little more...

  John Steed : Accurate?

  [cocks gun] 

  Peter Omrod : Careful.

  [cocks gun] 

• Emma Peel : [about to lift off in a hot air balloon]  Are you sure you know how to control one of these things, Steed?

  John Steed : Absolutely, my dear, nothing to worry about. Just a question of throwing ballast overboard.

  Emma Peel : And what happens when we run out of ballast?

• John Steed : [Of fox hunting]  The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.