- Lawrence Kirbridge: You can not expect married life to be all daisies, you know.
- Elizabeth Kirbridge: I haven't seen a single daisy so far.
- Elizabeth Kirbridge: We're husband and wife. At least everybody thinks we are.
- Lawrence Kirbridge: Perhaps we should have stayed just two people.
- Elizabeth Kirbridge: Two children I'm afraid you mean, Lawrence.
- Elizabeth Kirbridge: Don't you think a day might come when ladies open their own doors as a matter of course?
- Lawrence Kirbridge: [Tongue in cheek] Dangerous socialism.
- Sir Edwin Partridge: [to Elizabeth] As a performance I've acquired to compensate for a hideous bashfulness... beneath the peacock is a partridge, and a very humble one. If I let him out too often, he'll be shot. Try to understand.
- Sir Edwin Partridge: [to Lawrence] May I suggest we add Tompkins of the Morning Post?
- Lawrence Kirbridge: Hmmm.
- Sir Edwin Partridge: He has dandruff but a great deal of influence.