- Iris Cathaway: It's none of my business, but if you want my opinion, Prudence is not behaving in a manner befitting her position. Yesterday afternoon, she took Bert Higgins, the gardener, for a drive in her car, instead of attending Lord Everton's charity party.
- Dr. Roger Cathaway: Bert Higgins is convalescing. I took out his appendix last month.
- Iris Cathaway: That doesn't confer special privileges.
- Dr. Roger Cathaway: I remember taking out Lord Everton's appendix a year ago. Do you know it was exactly like Bert's?
- Iris Cathaway: That's a ridiculous argument. We don't shake hands with each other's appendixes? Or is it appendices?
- Iris Cathaway: I'm not against equality. I'm perfectly prepared to be equal with anybody providing they don't start being equal with me.
- Clive Briggs: [Listening to the German bombardment] Don't worry. They're not going to waste bombs on a WAAF camp.
- Prudence Cathaway: Why not?
- Clive Briggs: My girl, don't you realize that a big bomb costs a thousand pounds? We could go around the world on the price of one bomb!
- Clive Briggs: A man must have integrity. He's not entitled to free thought unless he's willing to pay the price of admitting it. Dare not admit what I believe, then I have no right to believe it
- Prudence Cathaway: If anyone asks me what England is, he robs me of an answer because what it is can't be spoken about. If you do it's like tearing apart a flower to analyse it.
- Rector: Whatever you do, don't think anymore. Trust your feelings, not your reason. If you do that I believe your problem may soon be over.
- Dr. Roger Cathaway: I remember taking out Lord Evesham's appendix a year ago. Do you know, it was exactly like Bert's,
- [their gardener's]
- Prudence Cathaway: [referring to Britain's involvement in the War] It's too late to doubt or question. We're in it now, and we've got to go on!
- Prudence Cathaway: [to Aunt Iris] When you and Uncle Wilfred talk, I seem to hear words oozing from the holes of a moth eaten sofa.
- Dr. Roger Cathaway: When men haven't slept for days on end, you have to teach them how to close their eyes.
- Radio newscaster: In Berlin tonight, a government spokesman declared that the conquest of Britain by the end of September is now definitely assured. He pointed out that the Channel between Dover and Calais is a mere seven minutes flying distance.
- Clive Briggs: They must have believed in those days - really and truly believed. No one has that kind of faith today.
- Rector: Are you sure? Perhaps you're only speaking for yourself.
- Clive Briggs: Well, this has been a great day. Crowded out of a tea shop; shut out of a cinema; thrown out of a hotel; and turned out of a bus. One feels the warm heart of England.
- Rector: We've no physical sanctuary any longer but we do help some people find a greater one - a spiritual sanctuary. Peace of mind, you called it just now.
- Dr. Roger Cathaway: Do you know what our enemies say every night in their prayers? They say, "Please God, keep the English from getting excited for one more years and we shall never need your help again."
- Policeman with Rector: Well, maybe they haven't uniforms, but they have got the spirit.
- Rector: Look - there's Harry Gates, the poacher, marching with Sir George.
- Policeman with Rector: Ah, poachers is the men for the home guard, sir. They know this country - every inch.
- Rector: Reason deals with the things we know. There are a lot of things we don't know. Faith is useful when reason can't go any further. Faith is simply the quality of believing beyond reason. Isn't that perhaps what troubles you?
- Monty: When you work with a bloke, eat, sleep, and drink with him for months on end, you either want to shoot him or die for him.
- Clive Briggs: How can you have faith in a thing when your reason tells you that you can't believe it?