- Edward Dawson: Our students come from all over Europe. Our present intake is from Poland. They learn about our way of life, and we put the final gloss on their English.
- Rosemary Boxer: Sort of Polish them up... Sorry.
- D.I. Scott: What makes you so sure it was murder?
- Rosemary Boxer: Well, Felix didn't cut his own throat, did he?
- Laura Thyme: Unh, he was very good with his hands apparently. You found the murder weapon yet?
- D.I. Scott: No. The pathologist says it was quick, clean, and businesslike.
- Rosemary Boxer: Think of all the advancements that have been made in grass cultivation over the past sixty yeats! Lawn husbandry has been raised to a science!
- Laura Thyme: [to perfume saleslady] I'm afraid perfume and I don't get on. It's my skin type. It always ends up smelling like lavatory cleaner.