- George Melton: [talking with Michael O'Brien] Be born innocent it's natural, but to die pure of heart, that's a gift.
- Madam Tanya: [When asked by Michael where she's going after staring to walk down bowling alley after bowling down pins] "Don't I have to pick up the bottles?"
- Allan Chadwick: I tell you England's territorial expansion had quite a different significance.
- George Melton: No matter how thin you slice it, a grab is a grab.
- Allan Chadwick: Grab? That's a specious term. England carried civilisation into the wilderness. What was Australia before she redeemed it from the Aborigines?
- Allan Chadwick: The truth is there isn't an acre of the Empire that isn't proud to fly the British flag.
- James Houston: What ever happened to me anyway?
- Michael O'Brien: You were too young and thoughtless... Success came too suddenly.
- James Houston: And that woman... She... She is gone?
- Michael O'Brien: She had no soul at all to go on with.
- Michael O'Brien: [to George and Allan] To tell you the truth, I'm relieved that the van Ripers are *not* coming. He's telling the same jokes he told 20 years ago... and she dyes her hair. I think it's a shrimp pink now.