- Dr. Victor Sartorius: [after hiring Joan Wyndham as his nurse] My man will show you out. He's listening at the door.
- Lady Yvonne Clifford: Tell me, doctor, what would it cost to enable you to finish your experiments?
- Dr. Victor Sartorius: What I want to do is surround myself with the finest scientists in the world in the short time I have left, and I haven't very long to live, you know. Cost? Uh... twenty thousand pounds.
- Lady Yvonne Clifford: I'm prepared to find that sum for you.
- Dr. Victor Sartorius: Everything I've lived for is within my grasp, and I'm not going to have it snatched away from me now.