- Sir Humphrey Tavistock: And I never saw her again from that day to this.
- Anthony: Now that's the kind of woman I really admire.
- Ambrosine Viney: [on entering the room] I do hope you're taking about me.
- Sir Humphrey Tavistock: Oh, Ambrosine, so you're back. You, er, know this young man?
- Ambrosine Viney: I've heard a great deal about him in the last five days. How do you do, Lady Tavistock?
- Ambrosine Viney: How do you do?
- Anthony: [to Sir Humphrey] Did you say "Ambrosine"?
- Sir Humphrey Tavistock: That's right. Oh, erm, I eventually caught up with her and finally she allowed me to marry her.
- [to Ambrosine]
- Sir Humphrey Tavistock: Did Diana come back with you?
- Ambrosine Viney: Yes.
- Sir Humphrey Tavistock: Where is she?
- Ambrosine Viney: Packing.
- Anthony: Packing?
- Ambrosine Viney: She saw your car outside, and do you know what she said?
- Anthony: What?
- Ambrosine Viney: It's Anthony, bless him. He's come to apologise and to ask me to go back to him.
- Anthony: I never came to do any such thing. I came to have it out with her.
- Ambrosine Viney: You do want her back, don't you?
- Anthony: Well, yes. On my terms.
- Ambrosine Viney: Which are?
- Anthony: Well, I want to be able to come home at night and find my slippers in front of the fire, dinner on the table and Diana waiting to welcome me. I want a wife who's a wife. The truth about women today is that they don't want to be women at at all, they want to be men.
- Ambrosine Viney: Ah, no, no, no, you're quite wrong. They want to be women alright. The fact is they have a different definition of what the word means. To a woman it means a person, an equal partner in the business of life; free to do what is right and best for herself.
- Sir Humphrey Tavistock: I'll tell you the truth about women: it's hell living with them but it's a damn sight worse having to live without them.
- Charles Tavistock: If you want my advice - I don't suppose you do but you're going to get it just the same - my advice is: love 'em and leave 'em. That's what I've always done and look what it's got me!
- Sir Humphrey Tavistock: What has it got you?
- Charles Tavistock: Well, a comfortable bank balance, a great deal of freedom, a happy and contented life, and no children to worry me, the way you're going to worry your mother and father.
- Sir Humphrey Tavistock: If everybody behaved like that, the world would come to an end.
- Charles Tavistock: Maybe. But it would be a darned sight happier place while it lasted.
- Sir Humphrey Tavistock: What about your reputation?
- Ambrosine Viney: What about yours?
- Sir Humphrey Tavistock: Well, it's different for a man.
- Ambrosine Viney: Well, it shouldn't be.
- Sir Humphrey Tavistock: I don't know which is going to be worse: my killing him or him killing me.
- Rollo: Don't you? I know which I'd choose.