- Professor Ernst Kronak: It seems the only place in the world I'm entitled to be in is a concentration camp.
- Timmy Tiverton: If we stick here until we get to a big station, we'll be nabbed sure as eggs is eggs.
- Professor Ernst Kronak: As what?
- Timmy Tiverton: Eggs is eggs!
- Professor Ernst Kronak: Egsisegs! Why, that is something I have not heard before. Tell me please, is Egsisegs some old Celtic or Iberian deity?
- Timmy Tiverton: I don't know anything about democracy 'cos I never bothered with politics - you don't in this profession you know. But it seems to me if these people haven't got enough guts in 'em to 'ang on to this hall of theirs, they deserve to lose it.
- Police Sergeant: Uh, thank you, sir. It's this spy business, sir. All over the place, they are. One blew up a statue this afternoon at Burchester.
- Sir George Denberry-Baxter: Good for him. If I had my way, I'd blow up the whole of Burchester. Damned awful place. Blow it up. Blow it all up.
- Timmy Tiverton: But it seems to me that if these people haven't got enough guts in them to hang onto this hall of theirs, they deserve to lose it.
- Professor Ernst Kronak: My friend, never say you do not know about politics. You have arrived at the heart of this and many other matters. What we will not trouble to keep, that we deserve to lose.
- Ketley: Well, as I told you, he's balmy when he's bottled, but he's a free and easy balminist. But the next morning - well, you've seen a bit of it.
- Timmy Tiverton: Yes, with his stay for weeks and his brass elephants, huh! Well, he knows what he can do with them.
- Sir George Denberry-Baxter: Lots of people hanging about, aren't there? What's the matter with 'em?
- Professor Ernst Kronak: Perhaps they are waking after a long sleep.
- Sir George Denberry-Baxter: Well, we'll soon wake 'em up.
- Police Sergeant: Well, sir, uh, I'm on duty, you know, sir.
- Sir George Denberry-Baxter: Well, if you're on duty, don't come in here. There's no duty that brings you to a gentleman's private house. So, either come off duty and have a drink, or stay on duty and clear out.
- Sir George Denberry-Baxter: Tell you one thing - I'm a bit thirsty. Thing's liable to go on for hours. Should have brought something with me.
- Daisy Barley: I've thought of all that. Here it is - no sooner the word than the blow.
- Sir George Denberry-Baxter: Christmas! What a woman!
- Sir George Denberry-Baxter: Darn good idea of yours, Foxfield, coming here. I didn't trust your judgement, but I was wrong.
- Sir Reginald Foxfield: Oh, thank you, sir.
- Sir George Denberry-Baxter: I always admit when I'm wrong. And I've been wrong all over the place - South Africa, Borneo, Fiji. Oh, I was damnably wrong in Fiji. Remind me to tell you about it when we're alone.
- Professor Ernst Kronak: Never have I been treated in this way before. This man is a democrat in the evening and a Nazi in the morning.
- Timmy Tiverton: Tell me, where is this place?
- Agent: This? Last place God made. No use anybody coming here.
- Sir George Denberry-Baxter: Am I a suspicious character?
- Police Sergeant: Well, not really, sir.
- Sir George Denberry-Baxter: That's where you're wrong. I am a suspicious character. I've always been a suspicious character. If you knew what was going on up here
- [pointing to his head]
- Sir George Denberry-Baxter: you'd have me handcuffed in no time. Have a drink.
- Agent: Did you come off the train?
- Timmy Tiverton: That's right.
- Agent: Oh. You didn't get out here on purpose did you?