- Professor David Lurie: The one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, those who come to learn learn nothing.
- Petrus: You say it is bad what happened. I also say it is bad, but now it is finished.
- Professor David Lurie: It's not finished. It will go on long after I'm dead and you're dead.
- [first lines]
- Professor David Lurie: I haven't heard from my daughter.
- Soraya: Still living with a woman.
- Professor David Lurie: Yes, still a lesbian. Still on the farm. She thinks it's safe there.
- Soraya: No where's safe. Too many people with nothing to do but cause trouble. How's work?
- Professor David Lurie: They look through me when I speak. Forget my name.
- Soraya: There's no respect anymore. Have you missed me?
- Professor David Lurie: I miss you all the time.
- Professor David Lurie: A woman's beauty does not belong to her alone, it's part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.
- Melanie Isaacs: What if I already shared?
- Professor David Lurie: Then you should share it more widely.
- Professor David Lurie: How humiliating, to invite this.
- Lucy: Yes, I agree.
- Professor David Lurie: Like a dog.
- Lucy: Yes, like a dog.