- Chiddiatt: Anna, Anna!
- Anna Chiddiatt: Yes darling.
- Chiddiatt: Your pad and pencil quickly! Quickly before I lose the inspiration.
- [Dictating his latest oeuvre]
- Chiddiatt: The scent of the room drifted slowly upwards as she gave him a pear-shaped look.Significant vital almond-blossom falling on guitar strings in small Italian towns came to his mind as he bent. What was that? Sordid, time-shattering, comes tap, tap, tap, a knocking on the door.
- Lord Studholme: If you're a gentleman...
- Howard Vernon: I'm not. I used to be. I couldn't afford the luxury.
- Sir John Holland: Lord Studholme has killed himself!
- Princess Maria Amelia: Oh dear. That's rather spoiled the game hasn't it?
- Princess Maria Amelia: After all, one can't eat a man's dinner and shoot him afterwards. Especially shooting him twice. That sort of thing isn't done.
- Gen. Piddington: No use pretendin' that anyone's broken-hearted. The man was a rotter. Always has been.
- Princess Maria Amelia: Yes, but why should the poor man shoot himself? That's what seems so odd to me...
- Chiddiatt: Oh Dawson. I want you to go down to where the main switch is.
- Butler: Yes sir.
- Chiddiatt: And then, let me see, I'll strike the gong. You ought to hear that oughtn't you?
- Butler: Should do sir.
- Chiddiatt: Well, when you do, turn out all the lights in the house. Then after, let us see, about ten minutes, you turn them all up again. Get the idea?
- Butler: Yes sir. Is that all sir?
- Chiddiatt: Yes. That's all.
- Gen. Piddington: Does that mean we play this infernal game in the dark, ma'am?
- Princess Maria Amelia: All the nicest games are played in the dark, General.
- Sergeant: You cant go in there.
- Chiddiatt: Flat-footed oaf!
- Sir John Holland: Alright sergeant.
- Chiddiatt: Oh Holland.
- Sir John Holland: What do you want?
- Chiddiatt: Are you aware that I'm being victimised outrageously at the hands of your minions?
- Howard Vernon: [to self in mirror] I'm afraid poverty's brought you pretty low, my son. Still, two hundred quid...