- Nigel: You don't like her, do you mother?
- Felicity Marshwood: Well of course I don't, I think she is a perfect ass.
- Miranda Frayle: I'm absolutely determined that the Countess of Marshwood shall be the longest, and greatest, role I ever played.
- Felicity Marshwood: I do hope you won't find it too much of a strain.
- Nigel: Mother!
- Felicity Marshwood: I do know what I'm talking about. I've played it for years. I find it a good part, but technically rather exhausting.
- Miranda Frayle: You planned all this business of Dora dressing up, didn't you, just to belittle me in front of Nigel, to make me look like a fool?
- Felicity Marshwood: I rather think you contributed to that rather generously yourself.
- Miranda Frayle: I am leaving; I am taking the 11 o'clock train.
- Nigel: No, you can't do that!
- Miranda Frayle: Why?
- Nigel: It's a terrible train. You have to change twice!
- Don Lucas: [When asked what his new film is about] It's about a bum.
- Felicity Marshwood: Curious subject for a motion picture.
- Peter: Felicity, bum doesn't mean quite the same thing in America as it does in England.
- Nigel: She's English. Born and bred, you know.
- Felicity Marshwood: Really? You'd never know. She does such a good job at hiding it.
- Felicity Marshwood: You're surely not intending to drive alll the way back to London now? Nonsense! I won't hear of it. That long dreary road at this time of night, in the pouring rain.
- Miranda Frayle: It isn't raining.
- Nigel: Miranda, will you kindly inform me what your ex-lover is doing under my roof?
- Miranda Frayle: He's not under your roof.
- Dora Moxton 'Moxie': He's in the garden.
- Nigel: Somehow, and God knows how, we have to put the shattered pieces of this appalling nightmare back together again and carry on as if nothing has happened. Do I make myself clear?
- Miranda Frayle: Does Bette Davis have and Oscar?
- Nigel: What?
- Dora Moxton 'Moxie': She was always an affected little madam out for what she could get. If ever a girl needed her bottom smacked, she did.
- Peter: Well, we might arrange that after dinner.
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