Father Brown (TV Series)
The Curse of the Golden Cross (1974)
Geoffrey Chater: Leonard Smythe
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Quotes
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Leonard Smythe : Well, it's refreshing to find a clergyman who doesn't believe in the supernatural.
Father Brown : No, no, you misunderstand me, Mr. Smythe. I can believe in the impossible but not the improbable.
Leonard Smythe : I suppose that's what you call a paradox?
Father Brown : It's what I call common sense. If you tell me Mr. Gladstone in his last hours was haunted by the ghost of Parnell, I can be agnostic about it... but if you tell me that Mr. Gladstone went presented to Queen Victoria, offered her a cigar, and slapped her on the backside, I'd say that was not impossible, but incredible. It isn't the legend I disbelieve in this case.
