- Retired Civil Servant: Now, suppose I was dying what would you do?
- Tranter: Ah - you'd be a casualty, an emergency, different category altogether you see sir. You'd get immediate treatment.
- Retired Civil Servant: I'm very glad to hear it!
- Dr. Macuzek: If the man lives, he lives. If he dies, he dies. It is not your concern because what you did was well done. Your job is finished.
- Mr. Groom Sr.: We're doctors not judges. Our job is to save lives not to decide if they're worth saving. That girl may be a number in a hospital to you but she was someone's proudest creation. That's why our job is different. A death on the table, an overdose of morphia, a misdiagnosis, and you extinguish a flame that can never be re-lit.
- Dolly Clark: You seem to expect us to behave like machines. We're human, aren't we? I suppose you want us all to grow into frustrated old spinsters.
- Dr. Sophie Dean: Oh darling, I just don't know what to do.
- Neil Marriner: Come here and have a cup of tea.