- Jo's Father: Now listen. I'm not going to have you trailing home with half a dozen more children in five years time. And another messed-up marriage on your hands.
- Jake's Father: Do you like children?
- Jake: Yes, of course I do. Yes.
- Jake's Father: Have you ever actually known any?
- Jake's Father: He'll be an impossible husband.
- Jake: Now, just a minute...
- Jake's Father: No, I assure you. Well, I mean he's got no money, he's bone lazy, he drinks too much. He's quite useless.
- Jo Armitage: He's going to be a very successful writer.
- Jo's Father: Do you realise what you're saddling yourself with?
- Jake: Yes... yes. Yes
- Jo's Father: A zoo, a children's zoo, and their keeper. Are you reconciled to keeping a zoo and its keeper?
- Woman at Hairdressers: Anyone ever clawed your skin off? Hm? See these claws? Ever had your skin clawed off?
- Conway: I've been checking up. He rang her this morning - did you know that? When they were at the studio he sent her flowers every day - did you know that? He's crazy about her, ducky, he's mad about her - he can't keep off it. Before Beth there was that other one - what was her name? Well, it doesn't matter. Till she got fed up with him. He's not much good in bed, I understand.
- Jo Armitage: [Jo tries to leave but Conway grabs her arm] Let go!
- Conway: You had an abortion, didn't you? Shall I tell you why? Because Beth's a good girl at heart - she would have left him. He made you have it so that he could keep Beth - she told me for God's sake. She's a lovely girl - she's going to starve for me - she's going to starve. Wouldn't even touch her with a bargepole even if she came crawling to me.
- Jo Armitage: I want to go.
- Conway: If he ever sees her again or rings her, I'll fry him, you understand, I'll boil him. You tell him that.
- Jo Armitage: No.
- Conway: You'd better. He's not a grown man, your husband, he's a puking boy. Can't even lay a girl without the whole world knowing it.
- Jake: You're not exactly a model of faithfulness yourself, are you?
- Jo Armitage: I was never unfaithful to anyone in my life, to anyone ever!
- Jake: What a bloody hypocrite you are!
- Jo Armitage: Did you stay the night?
- Jake: I wish you'd shut up! I wish you'd die.
- Jo Armitage: How should I die?
- Jake: I dunno - leave me...
- Jo Armitage: I could die here. What shall we do?
- Jake: Nothing. I love you. I've always loved you.
- Jake: What are you sniggering for? Think it's funny I suppose because I tell the truth for once.
- Jo Armitage: The truth?
- Jake: That I'm capable of fancying somebody else. I'm a perfectly normal man and I'm capable of fancying somebody else.