- [last lines]
- Ezra Fitton: It's life, lad. It might make you laugh at your age, but one day it'll make you bloody cry!
- [Joe threatened Arthur that he will "do a job for him--with his wife" by having sex with her, which Arthur hasn't managed yet; this leads to a fight in the cinema car-park]
- Molly Thompson: [to Joe] Do a job for him? You? You couldn't do a job on our cat. The milkman's been doing your bloody job for years!
- Ezra Fitton: He walked through 'ere like it were a public convenience.
- Lucy Fitton: If you say that again, I won't be responsible.
- Ezra Fitton: Well there's no other way of putting it. He looked neither left nor right.
- Lucy Fitton: I've warned you.
- Geoffrey Fitton: Why so touchy, Mum?
- Lucy Fitton: 'Cos when I was a girl, I walked into a men's place by mistake. What a sight! Two lines of men, all wearing raincoats, with their stooped backs and their blooming heads sunk forward... as though they expected to be shot in the back at any moment.
- Ezra Fitton: All this reading books he does, it's not natural.
- Lucy Fitton: You wouldn't know what natural is.
- Ezra Fitton: My father always used to say if it were natural you'd see animals doing it. I never saw a horse reading.
- Ezra Fitton: It says here if the Chinese go on increasing, there'll not be enough food left to go around. Someone ought to tell them Chinese to stop it.
- Lucy Fitton: Why don't you? They might take notice.
- Lucy Fitton: Would you say there was anything odd or queer about a fellow that went on his honeymoon and took his pal with him?
- Lucy Fitton: Some men never grow up, do they?
- Liz Piper: [softly sobbing]
- Jenny Fitton: What's up with you, Mum?
- Lucy Fitton: It's a big moment for a mother, love. A daughter's first night.
- Liz Piper: [continues sobbing] I just can't believe she's ready about it. I feel there was so much I should have told her.
- Molly Thompson: I'll give you a couple of tips, love. Never show pleasure. You know what I mean, don't you?
- Lucy Fitton: Not that there ever is much.
- Molly Thompson: Aye, you're right there. Never actually refuse, though. It makes a man feel small. And they take it out of your housekeeping money.
- Mrs. Harris: Remember Mrs. Evans, the woman who lived up Canal? She used to charge her husband.
- Mrs. Lee: Eugh, I think that's disgusting.
- Mrs. Harris: Oh, I don't know. She used to put the money in a kitty towards the holidays. First year they went to Spain
- Lucy Fitton: [bitter about her husband's behavior over their honeymoon] Every blessed morning, off they'd go, happy as sandboys, without as much as a goodbye kiss.
- Ezra Fitton: I was never one to take liberties.
- Liz Piper: But she was your wife, Mr. Fitton.
- Ezra Fitton: I know, but you can still show respect, can't you? I mean, kissing a 19-year-old girl while she's still asleep?
- Liz Piper: But she slept beside you all night...
- Ezra Fitton: I slept beside my brother Tom for years, but I never bloody kissed him!