- Georgina: Why is everyone fussing about this silly old war? Well, it's just something happening abroad. It's like the famine in India or the earthquake in Turkey. It's nothing to do with us!
- Mr. Angus Hudson, Butler: We are not fit! We need some of the old discipline. All this trouble in Ireland and in industry. The other day someone even threatened the king! You know, the lower classes are far too flabby and pampered. A wee bit of bloodletting would do this country a power of good!
- Hazel Bellamy: What's the difference between an alliance and an entente?
- Richard Bellamy: Well, one is written down, and the other one's sort of a gentlemen's areement.
- Hazel Bellamy: Do you always have to behave like gentlemen?
- James Bellamy: [to Hazel] ... and now we've got to win - otherwise the world won't be a fit place for human beings. Let's do it properly while we're about it and smash or be smashed - the war to end all wars.