- Capt. George Mainwaring: [the platoon have found out about Godfrey's Military Medal] There's still one thing I can't understand, Godfrey.
- Pte. Charles Godfrey: What's that, sir?
- Capt. George Mainwaring: Why didn't you wear your medals?
- Pte. Charles Godfrey: Somehow I thought they looked rather ostentatious, sir
- Capt. George Mainwaring: Ostentatious... but good Lord, man - If I'd have won the Military Medal, I'd have worn it proudly on my chest for the world to see.
- Pte. Charles Godfrey: Yes, sir, and that would have been all right - because somehow you look like a hero.
- Sgt. Arthur Wilson: It just goes to show, sir, you can never judge by appearances.
- [Mainwaring glares at Wilson]
- [Godfrey is explaining his decision to resign from the Home Guard]
- Pte. Charles Godfrey: I went into the larder to get the milk, then I saw something that made me realise that I just couldn't carry on.
- Capt. George Mainwaring: What on earth was it?
- Pte. Charles Godfrey: A mouse.
- Capt. George Mainwaring: A mouse?
- Pte. Charles Godfrey: Yes, you see in the larder was a great big, empty pudding basin - a mouse had fallen inside, and it was running round and round trying to get out. I know I ought to kill it because we're overrun with mice, so I got hold of it, and as I held it in my hand, I could feel it's little heart beating under it's fur - and I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
- Capt. George Mainwaring: So, what did you do?
- Pte. Charles Godfrey: I took it into the garden and let it go.
- Capt. George Mainwaring: Look, Godfrey, I still don't see what this has got to do with you wanting to leave the platoon?
- Pte. Charles Godfrey: Don't you understand, sir? If I couldn't bring myself to kill that mouse, how could I ever kill a German?
- [the platoon visit Godfrey at home after the exercise with some get well gifts]
- Pte. James Frazer: I've brought you a bottle of scotch.
- Pte. Joe Walker: I've brought you a quarter of tea.
- Pte. Charles Godfrey: From the Army and Navy?
- Pte. Joe Walker: No, from a fellow I know in the Air Force.