- Amy Sumner: David, give Niles to them. That's what they want. They just want him. Give them Niles, David!
- David Sumner: They'll beat him to death.
- Amy Sumner: I don't care! Get him out!
- David Sumner: You really don't care, do you?
- Amy Sumner: No, I don't.
- David Sumner: No. I care. This is where I live. This is me. I will not allow violence against this house.
- Reverend Barney Hood: Radiation. That's an unfortunate dispensation.
- David Sumner: Surely is. Yes, indeed.
- Reverend Barney Hood: As long as it's not another bomb.
- [beat]
- Reverend Barney Hood: You're a scientist - can you deny the responsibility?
- David Sumner: Can you?
- [beat]
- David Sumner: After all, there's never been a kingdom given to so much bloodshed as that of Christ.
- Reverend Barney Hood: [beat] That's Montesquieu, isn't it?
- David Sumner: Oh, really?
- Louise Hood: Who's he?
- Reverend Barney Hood: Somebody well worth reading.
- [singing in a bar]
- Tom Hedden, Charlie Venner: Now some men goes for women, and some men goes for boys. But My love's warm and beautiful, and makes a baah-ing noise.
- Reverend Barney Hood: And now for my next trick, the piece de resistance, I present to you an empty glass. I will now fill this glass with milk.
- Chris Cawsey: Would it work better with whiskey, Vicar?
- Reverend Barney Hood: Nothing works better with whiskey.
- Tom Hedden: I do.
- Reverend Barney Hood: You've never worked a day in your life, Tom.
- David Sumner: Ok, you've had your fun. I'll give you one more chance, and if you don't clear out now, there'll be real trouble. I mean it.
- Tom Hedden: John Niles; come to me then.
- John Niles: Is this for a drink then, Tom?
- Tom Hedden: This is for the truth. Your brother; been hangin' around the girls again. You'd better keep a closer watch or we'll be puttin' him away!
- David Sumner: You act like you're fourteen years old.
- Amy Sumner: I am fourteen years old.
- David Sumner: Wanna try for twelve?
- Amy Sumner: [Chews gum]
- David Sumner: How about eight? I freak out for eight year olds.
- Riddaway: I didn't reckon on nobody getting killed, Norman.
- Norman Scutt: Yeah, well, that's too bad. We're all in it now. Accessories, we are.
- Charlie Venner: That's the law.