- Annie Sugden: Believe what you see. Owt else is just talk. I took my man for what I could see: some good, some bad. Least that way you don't get nasty surprises.
- [Jack compliments the tastiness of the chicken they've just eaten for dinner at the Wilks']
- Jack Sugden: Was it free-range?
- Marian Wilks: Does it matter?
- Jack Sugden: It seems a bit rough to condemn a creature to life imprisonment and then execute it as well.
- Norman Harrison: People have to be fed somehow.
- Jack Sugden: Why?
- Norman Harrison: You don't think chickens are more important than people?
- Jack Sugden: I don't think they're less.
- Norman Harrison: You'd change your tune quickly enough if you were starving.
- Jack Sugden: We've got starvation coming to us anyhow, unless we stop having children.
- Marian Wilks: I intend to have four children.
- Jack Sugden: And that's four too many.