- ADC to Wellington: [Caroline has just slashed her wrists] Good God, your Grace! She just tried to kill herself!
- Duke of Wellington: Nonsense, me boy. No difficulty about killing yourself, if you really mean to.
- Buckham: [Caroline and Buckham have been watching Byron bare-knuckle boxing] Haven't seen you about, milord.
- Lord Byron: No sir, haven't been about.
- Lady Caroline Lamb: Where *have* you been?
- Lord Byron: I've been in Turkey.
- Lady Caroline Lamb: Turkey? Was Turkey interesting?
- Lord Byron: Yes ma'am, very.
- Buckham: Was that where you learned to fight like a *savage*?
- Lord Byron: No sir, I learned that at Harrow.
- [last lines]
- Lady Melbourne: [sternly about Lady Caroline] Look sir, I must tell my son that she is dead. What am I to tell him that she died of.
- Physician: I can only repeat, madam: her nervous system was both morbidly delicate and unnaturally fearful, and was, in the end, overwhelmed.
- Lady Melbourne: [angrily] With what?
- Physician: If I could tell you that, I would be a philosopher, not a physician.
- Lady Melbourne: [exasperated] Well, I do not understand.
- Mrs. Buller: [tearfully] I dare say you don't, mum. A broken heart. That's what she died of.
- Lady Melbourne: [matter-of-factly after pondering it for a few seconds] My God. Wouldn't she!