- Nanny: Well, you see, food is harder to come by than it was before you went away. She's gone to beg for a chicken.
- Michael Wentworth: Beg for a chicken? Can't we pay for one?
- Nanny: Nowadays it isn't a matter of whether you can pay for a thing or not - It's a matter of whether you're a friend of the butcher's or not, and if you aren't, heaven help you.
- Richard Llewellyn: There's only one thing to do - you must stay with him.
- Diana Wentworth: I know you're right, but he's practically a stranger.
- Diana Wentworth: Michael, it's not that I don't love you. Its all the years between.
- Michael Wentworth: Hah! The years between. They've got a lot to answer for haven't they?
- Nanny: There is peace in the world again - starting today. And if you two are any sample of what's going to happen then we might as well have the war again right away. Because we've lost the peace - lost it before its ever started.