- Gerald Hardcastle: Well, Ted, you can take it from me that in the entire history of this world no man never yet had any pleasure out of a woman without having to pay it for.
- [Prudence is engrossed in watching a Western on television. Gerald is bored with it and starts to talk to her]
- Prudence Hardcastle: Oh, Gerald, do you mind. I'm trying to follow the plot.
- Gerald Hardcastle: [scathingly] I'm sorry. I didn't realise there *was* one.
- Grace Hardcastle: Now Geraldine - there's no need to get annoyed.
- Geraldine Hardcastle: I'm not annoyed - I'm bloody furious.
- Dr. Morley: Women are complicated creatures, Mr Hardcastle. I sometimes think that the easiest way of dealing with them is to find out what they want and then arrange for them to get it.