- Phillips: It would be immoral to spend anything like a quarter of a million dollars on this property for the benefit of one individual.
- Mrs. Clodfelter Dunne: You a Socialist?
- Phillips: Yes, I am.
- Mrs. Clodfelter Dunne: I'm sorry. I had no idea. You look so respectable!
- Earl of Locharne: [on the guests' complaints about the temperature] They have fires in their rooms, don't they? The lodgers, I mean.
- Boss Trent: They have fireplaces.
- Miss Nicholson: When this parchment is revealed, it will launch the greatest epoch in Scottish history. For because of what it proves, your master will soon be enthroned in Holyrood, as King John.
- Menzies: With things going the way they are, he'll soon be enthroned in Aberdeen gaol, as Convict 99.