The Good Life Quotes
Barbara Good: [to Tom] People always help out in a crisis, like the old spirit of the blitz.
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Barbara Good: [to Tom] Wyatt, once you've finished up cleaning Dodge City, perhaps you could do the same with the pigsty.
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Tom: What do you think?
Barbara: I need to think.
Tom: Garden?
Barbara: Yes.
Tom: [fetches wellies] Right. Left. Coat.
Barbara: Coat. [leaves to pace in the garden]
Tom: Piece of cake?
Barbara: No thank you. [continues pacing]
Barbara: Do you want to sell up and buy a small holding in the country to do this?
Tom: No, this isn't meant to be the full going back to nature thing, besides we love this house too much to sell it.
Barbara: Self-sufficiency in Surbiton.
Tom: Yes, I know it'll make the avenue look a bit odd.
Barbara: No no. [continues pacing]
Barbara: I couldn't kill chickens.
Tom: Alright, I'll chop their heads off with my black and decker while you're not looking.
Barbara: [continues pacing] What happens when we need new clothes?
Tom: I'll have made the loom by then. With the wool from the goat.
Barbara: No no. [finishes pacing]
Tom: Well? Well?
Barbara: You're on.
Tom: What?
Barbara: We'll do it.
Tom: Now, have you thought about this?
Barbara: What do you think I've been doing? Taking my wellies for a walk?
Barbara: I need to think.
Tom: Garden?
Barbara: Yes.
Tom: [fetches wellies] Right. Left. Coat.
Barbara: Coat. [leaves to pace in the garden]
Tom: Piece of cake?
Barbara: No thank you. [continues pacing]
Barbara: Do you want to sell up and buy a small holding in the country to do this?
Tom: No, this isn't meant to be the full going back to nature thing, besides we love this house too much to sell it.
Barbara: Self-sufficiency in Surbiton.
Tom: Yes, I know it'll make the avenue look a bit odd.
Barbara: No no. [continues pacing]
Barbara: I couldn't kill chickens.
Tom: Alright, I'll chop their heads off with my black and decker while you're not looking.
Barbara: [continues pacing] What happens when we need new clothes?
Tom: I'll have made the loom by then. With the wool from the goat.
Barbara: No no. [finishes pacing]
Tom: Well? Well?
Barbara: You're on.
Tom: What?
Barbara: We'll do it.
Tom: Now, have you thought about this?
Barbara: What do you think I've been doing? Taking my wellies for a walk?
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[last lines]
Barbara Good: Well, that's another problem solved, isn't it?
Tom Good: Yes, yes, always provided of course he does chase birds.
Barbara Good: [chicken cackles] Oh, my God, what's that?
Tom Good: He chases birds, all right! He's in the chicken's run!
Barbara Good: Well, that's another problem solved, isn't it?
Tom Good: Yes, yes, always provided of course he does chase birds.
Barbara Good: [chicken cackles] Oh, my God, what's that?
Tom Good: He chases birds, all right! He's in the chicken's run!
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