- Oxford Student: And don't forget, if you want your appendix out, or your tonsils trimmed, I'm your man, when I've qualified.
- John Goodman Johnson: When!
- Oxford Student: By the time I've had one year or two at hospital, what I know about surgery will fill a book!
- John Goodman Johnson: Yes, and what you don't know will fill a cemetery!
- Dolly Flint: Hmm, not so hot having the boss's nephew looking over your shoulder all the time, though.
- Timothy Bradbury: No. I don't quite know what to do about it. He may share his uncle's old-fashioned ideas as to how accounts should be kept.
- Dolly Flint: Do you mind?
- Timothy Bradbury: I'm afraid he might not understand my methods.
- Dolly Flint: You mean you're afraid he might!
- Sacked Porter: I wouldn't work for Bradbury again for 100 a week, the ruddy hypocrite!
- John Goodman Johnson: Maybe you've got him all wrong. Maybe he's just a disciplinarian.
- Sacked Porter: He can be a vegetarian for all I care!