- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: Am I supposed to say "Your place or mine?"
- Karim Hatami: No. These days, you say "Betamax or VHS?"
- Lady Newhouse: China, now that really scares me. Nine hundred million people breeding like rabbits.
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: You're wrong, Lady Newhouse.
- Lady Newhouse: What do you mean, I'm wrong?
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: There are over a billion now. That's official.
- Hugo Van Arkady: You're both wrong. They are only two people in China. And I know both of them.
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: Two people in China? I love it. OK, if there are two people in China, how many are there in the world?
- Hugo Van Arkady: There are five thousand people in the world. That's it, five thousand.
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: And I suppose, Mr. Van Arkady, that you've met them all.
- [the other dinner guests laugh]
- Julian Shuttle: Five thousand? That's all that counts? What about the starving millions?
- Dinner guest: A million isn't a number in any real sense.
- Hugo Van Arkady: There's murder in nature. Millions are dying right now. Starved, bombed, in camps. Nobody gives a damn. You may deplore it, but it's a fact.
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: Those five thousand, who are they? How many of them are British?
- Hugo Van Arkady: Forty five.
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: German?
- Hugo Van Arkady: Sixty.
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: African?
- Hugo Van Arkady: None. And more Arabs than you might think, but they're all here in London.
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: I suppose the rest are American. And naturally, Mr. Van Arkady, you're one of the five thousand.
- Hugo Van Arkady: Bien entendu.
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: Tell me, how many are women?
- Hugo Van Arkady: Interested, aren't we?
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: Very.
- Lady Newhouse: Well, since we're on the subject of women, shall we go and have our coffee?
- Hugo Van Arkady: I'm going to miss you.
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: I'm not going anywhere.
- Hugo Van Arkady: You don't understand, you're being summoned. Ladies to the loo and baby talk whilst we men pass the port and smoke cigars.
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: That sucks.
- Hugo Van Arkady: That's London, my dear.
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: What was that with the waiter?
- Japanese Businessman: I say you very good looking.
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: I thought I heard a reference to money.
- Japanese Businessman: You speak Japanese?
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: I'm not on the menu, Mr. Matsushita. I decide what I do after dinner. And in your case, it's no. Definitely no.
- Dr. Lauren Slaughter: Just call the plumber, Lindsay, or you'll have another Notting Hill riot on your hands. A white one!