- Alice Hargreaves: That's quite intolerable. It would be difficult enough at my age to be what I once was, but utterly impossible to be what I never was.
- Alice Hargreaves: [a journalist has just offered her some flowers] Are you one of those - oh, what are they called - Homosexuals?
- Alice Hargreaves: Now that I'm very old myself I find the Grim Reaper has a smile on his face after all.
- Alice Hargreaves: She burnt all the letters he sent me. Why would she do that unless she thought there was something terrible in them?
- Little Alice: I think it's a wonderful book Mr Dodgeson. I shall read it again and again, and then start from the last page and finish on the first!
- Jack Dolan: Ma'am, you look terrific!
- Alice Hargreaves: What a fraudulent young man you are, it's lovely.
- Jack Dolan: You could make thousands.
- Alice Hargreaves: Dollars or pounds?
- Jack Dolan: Take your pick.