- Elizabeth Kirbridge: Money isn't as important to us as it is to you.
- Lady Marjorie Bellamy: Money's always important if you haven't enough of it.
- Lawrence Kirbridge: I hate being responsible for other people. It's bad enough being responsible for yourself.
- Lawrence Kirbridge: [referring to a newspaper in which his name appears] I think I'm going to buy dozens of copies of this and send it to all my friends. I mean, there's no point in being famous if nobody knows about it.
- Lawrence Kirbridge: [hearing Rose singing while doing housework] I suppose she'll be going around with flowers in her hair next. What's the matter with her?
- Lawrence Kirbridge: [superciliously] Could it be that the desires of Rose, the virginal nymph, are aroused by the dark masculinity of the Welsh bull.