The Murder at the Vicarage Quotes

Colonel Protheroe: [referring to the artist, Lawrence Redding, while at the dinner table] I forbid you to see him again!
Lettice Protheroe: He was only painting me.
Colonel Protheroe: [disbelieving] Oh!
Lettice Protheroe: But I wish he were doing something, with all the stupid fuss you're making.
Colonel Protheroe: Don't be common!
Lettice Protheroe: Well, don't be horrid, then! You've already driven the DuFosses to bed because of your foul mood.
Colonel Protheroe: Well, you can go, too!
Lettice Protheroe: Gladly! [throws napkin on the table, gets up and walks off]

TV Show: The Murder at the Vicarage
DI Slack: [Miss Marple reveals that the note Colonel Protheroe left behind may have been altered] Thank you, Miss Marple. That means that he could have been shot after 6: 20, and the murderer just put that onto the note, and then altered the clock ...
Miss Jane Marple: To the time when Mrs. Protheroe came here in answer to her anonymous telephone call, and Mr. Redding's gun is the murder weapon. [snaps her fingers]
Miss Jane Marple: I think they were being, um... set up as pasties.
DI Slack: [correcting] Patsies, it is.
Miss Jane Marple: Thank you, Inspector.

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[Colonel Protheroe discovers that the artist Lawrence Redding has been painting a portrait of his daughter in her bathing suit]
Lettice Protheroe: It - it's more artistic.
Colonel Protheroe: There's art, and there's SMUT! How dare he! And how dare you!

TV Show: The Murder at the Vicarage