- Hermione Bradley: My husband's mother marches to the beat of different drum.
- Ferdinand Bradley: My mother has an entire orchestra of her own.
- Mrs. Adela Bradley: Children disappoint their parents, it's one of the immutable laws of nature. Your son's made an unsuitable match, mine became a lawyer.
- Mrs. Adela Bradley: I've never cared much for the countryside. To me, it's a soggy sort of place where animals and birds wander about uncooked.
- [shotgun fires in the distance]
- Mrs. Adela Bradley: Or *don't* wander about, as the case may be.
- Mrs. Adela Bradley: Marriage is one of those things it's best to get over and done with early in life...
- [after a puff on her cigarette holder]
- Mrs. Adela Bradley: ... like chicken pox.
- Mrs. Adela Bradley: [to George] Today, a funeral, tomorrow, an engagement party. Life goes on, n'est-pas?
- Mrs. Adela Bradley: [Approaching her moustached ex-stepson] Ferdinand, you appear to have something on your lip. It looks like a caterpillar.
- Mrs. Adela Bradley: [Aside to camera] I'm never entirely sure if I'm famous or notorious. Someone once said that fame is to live in poverty and end up as a statue. Naturally I prefer to be notorious.
- Vicar: Condolences Mrs. Bradley. A good man.
- Mrs. Adela Bradley: Yes. Dull, but good.
- Ferdinand Bradley: Honestly! Today, of all days.
- Mrs. Adela Bradley: Is the day for truth. The only exciting thing your father ever did was to divorce me.
- Mrs. Adela Bradley: Alastair, dear Alastair. There are two things in life you can never do. One, catch a waiter's eye before he's ready to see you. And two, turn back the clock.