- Darius Jedburgh: People who put trees and flowers before people, they're beyond reasoning with. You can never appeal to their humanity, because they don't believe in humanity, except as a form of moral pollution.
- Ronald Craven: My daughter never expressed such a view.
- Darius Jedburgh: She probably did, Craven, a dozen times a day, but you never noticed it.
- Harcourt: We're not funded by the M.O.D., but by the Prime Minister's Office.
- Pendleton: And the Arts Council...
- Harcourt: Mr Pendleton has us down as a band of strolling players.
- Pendleton: And the Commonwealth?
- Harcourt: As professional historians...
- Pendleton: And the G.L.C.?
- [Greater London Council]
- Harcourt: A lesbian co-operative.
- Darius Jedburgh: Frick and frack!
- Darius Jedburgh: I'm here to warn you. You're stirring up the natives. You're making them restless. We have our own interests on this island. Quite apart from the airbases, there's the golf courses.
- Grogan: The golf courses?
- Darius Jedburgh: Don't forget Grogan, I'm a golfer. And when you and your friends are busy in the stadiums, who'll look after the golf courses? It's a question I ask myself every time I address the ball.
- Grogan: Keep talking that way you're not gonna pass your next medical, you know that?