- Liz Thompson: [looking at Durham Cathedral] You're looking at my favourite building, Mr Gently Sir.
- George Gently: You know, I think it's mine now.
- Pat Shepherd: [Being introduced to George by her husband Alan] George, lovely to meet you. I'm going to embarrass you both now; you're the nearest thing my husband's got to a hero.
- John Bacchus: [after failing to get a search warrant from threee magistrates] Do you want me to break in, Guv?
- George Gently: Do you want to ask me a different question, John?
- John Bacchus: Can I have the afternoon off, Guv?
- George Gently: Absolutely.
- George Gently: [as Bacchus is walking away] John, don't get caught.
- Paul Collison: Look, I just want you to know that I think using violence against kids is barbaric.
- John Bacchus: My dad belted me when I was a kid; didn't do me any harm.
- Paul Collison: [With sarcasm] That's a matter of opinion.
- Terri Molloy: You deserve better than this, Tommy. I'm sorry.
- Sgt Molloy: Ah, the world would be a painful place if we all got what we deserved, huh?
- David Blackburn: When I was a laddy/ I lived with my mammy/ And many's a hammer/ My mammy gave me/ And when I grow up/ I can hammer me mammy/ Serves her right for hammerin' me
- Liz Thompson: I'm the chief constable's new driver.
- George Gently: Ah. Enjoy it?
- Liz Thompson: I love it. I get to go everywhere he goes. I never knew Durham had so many golf courses.