- Adm. Sir Gerald Scaith: [On the legalisation of homosexuality] Only sensible law we've made in England this century. Consenting adults. Would have saved Vassall and Maclean. And Burgess too of course, not that I think he wouldn't have done it with a hedgehog.
- Philip Kimberley: [reading a paper] "Press agency Moscow. April 27th." But that's six months from now! "The death of Sir Philip Kimberley was announced here today. Former Director General, British Secret Service, defected." It's all here!
- Penelope Kimberley: Don't be stupid, Philip. She could be dead by tonight.
- Philip Kimberley: She's no good to them dead, is she? She's got a tongue in her head, she can explain.
- Penelope Kimberley: In Russian? In Moscow?
- Adm. Sir Gerald Scaith: Anything I can get you?
- Philip Kimberley: Vodka. Only vodka.
- Adm. Sir Gerald Scaith: None of that foreign nonsense here. You're in England now. Whiskey it'll be.
- Philip Kimberley: I was going to get a Cabinet post. I might even be Prime Minister by now.
- Boris Medvachian: If you should go back to England now, you'll not get five years in the House of Commons, you'll get probably thirty years in Brixton jail.
- Philip Kimberley: I must say, it's wonderful to be forty two again. Do you think I'll live to be forty three?
- Boris Medvachian: If comrade Kuzminsky fails to deliver the dossier, our two friends there, they make sure he doesn't.