- Malcolm Stritton: You'd do anything rather than admit that you were wrong. Or try to change yourself. Or open your heart and mind and be generous.
- Dorothy Stritton: You hate me now, don't you Malcolm?
- Malcolm Stritton: No I don't. But I easily could. You've done this before, but this is the worst. And I won't be bullied and cheated out of what I think and feel.
- Alice Foster: What's the matter with people anyway?
- Mrs. Batley: They're all strung up inside, dear, 'cos they're not gettin' their little bits of 'appiness.
- Alice Foster: I've always hoped that men and women could live like that if they tried. Life hadn't got to be a dogfight around a dustbin - we've made it like that but it needn't be like that.
- Sergeant Jimmy: I think you've got your heads in the clouds.
- WAAF: And you've got your feet so firmly on the ground you can't see past the end of your nose.