- Mrs. Doyle-Counihan: We have had 700 years of English tyranny. And now, let this meeting demand the rope be on the other neck for a change.
- Con Clancy, Kilshannon Dentist: A woman, I always say, is born for widowhood. It is her natural vocation. A woman is incomplete until himself is six feet under.
- Con Clancy, Kilshannon Dentist: The first day I clapped eyes on that one, I made up my mind. If she ends up as anyone's widow, it'll be as mine. Or I'll swing for her.
- Mrs. Doyle-Counihan: That's the Lucy girl.
- Miss Katherine O'Hare: The poor creature.
- Mrs. Doyle-Counihan: What poor? Now we gave her every chance, so we did. "Get it adopted," we said to her. But no. No, she'd sooner make a show of herself *and* of us.
- Miss Katherine O'Hare: Where will she go?
- Mrs. Doyle-Counihan: Where do you think she'll go? Why else did God, in his goodness, invent England?
- Godfrey Doyle-Counihan: In Kilshannon, Mrs. Broome, widows are as plentiful as freckles on a redhead.
- Mrs. Edwina Broome: I came to Kilshannon for the climate.
- Godfrey Doyle-Counihan: What climate? We are in Ireland.
- Mrs. Edwina Broome: Nigel had often spoken so affectionately of Ireland. He loved this country so. He told me how he used to come here for the shooting.
- Miss Katherine O'Hare: Really? What did he shoot? Irishmen?
- Mrs. Doyle-Counihan: Miss O'Hare! Honest to God.
- Miss Katherine O'Hare: Why not? It isn't as if we're ever out of season.
- Mrs. Edwina Broome: I don't like lawyers. They consort with criminals.
- Godfrey Doyle-Counihan: No, they don't, they consort with other lawyers.
- Mrs. Edwina Broome: That's what I said.
- Lieutenant Rokesby: And, forgive me, but are there *non*-teetotal beverages available?
- Miss Katherine O'Hare: Not for the likes of them that's had enough.
- Miss Katherine O'Hare: God Almighty. For a strap of an Englishwoman, she'd talk the hind leg off a donkey.
- Con Clancy, Kilshannon Dentist: [after having pulled a patient's tooth] No-one's going to tell me *I* don't disinfect.
- [takes a drink from his flask]
- Mrs. Edwina Broome: When I receive your proposal, I'll consider it. Meanwhile... it's customary to provide a sample of goods on offer.
- Godfrey Doyle-Counihan: Um... who's going to provide the sample?
- Mrs. Edwina Broome: Think of it as mutual. Tit for tat.
- Miss Katherine O'Hare: Maybe she credits me with being smarter than I am, but at last I know a gold ring from the brass one you'd find in a sweet cake on Halloween.
- Godfrey Doyle-Counihan: Well, it's all right rowing ashore, but rowing back to the cruiser isn't.
- Mrs. Edwina Broome: Do you mean because of the currents on the lake?
- Godfrey Doyle-Counihan: No, I mean because of the pubs on the land.
- Miss Katherine O'Hare: Are we sinking? I can't swim.
- Con Clancy, Kilshannon Dentist: [chuckles] It won't be necessary. One of the few advantages of going aground is that you can walk ashore.
- Lieutenant Rokesby: [in an English accent] Permit me, ma'am. First Lieutenant Rokesby of His Majesty's ship Heroic. At your service, ma'am. The fact is, I've had a somewhat chequered 24 hours. Fell into bad company in Dublin last night and missed my ship. Courtesy visit, you know, not bombardment.
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