- Michael Beattie: To fight church and state is to fight Goliath.
- Desmond Doyle: Yeah, well, David beat Goliath in the book I read.
- Sister Brigid: Is God good, just and merciful?
- Annette Farrell: Yes, Sister.
- Sister Brigid: "Yes" isn't the catechism answer, is it? What does the catechism say?
- Annette Farrell: It says...
- [pauses, unable to remember]
- Sister Brigid: I've had enough of you, Annette Farrell. Now...
- [begins to beat Annette with a strap]
- Sister Brigid: God is infinitely good...
- [beats her again]
- Sister Brigid: infinitely just...
- [beats her again]
- Sister Brigid: and infinitely - What are you saying to me, child?
- Evelyn Doyle: I don't think you should do that, Sister. If God is infinitely merciful, he wouldn't want you to do that.
- Senior Counsel Mr. Wolfe: You asked God to bless Sister Brigid after hitting you?
- Evelyn Doyle: Yes sir.
- Senior Counsel Mr. Wolfe: I put it to you that you are lying.
- Evelyn Doyle: To tell a lie is against the Eighth Commandment. You're a lawyer, you should know that.
- Evelyn Doyle: Grandma says she got a postcard from Mummy. She's in a place called Australia. Grandma says it's warm there.
- Henry Doyle: Yes, deary, it is. But you tell your grandmother that its not as warm as the place she'll be going next.
- [in court, a lawyer has told Evelyn what a nun has claimed]
- Evelyn Doyle: Oh, no, that's not true! Hope she goes to confession soon.
- Desmond Doyle: I wasn't talking to you, Yank. All you're good for's wearing sharp suits, doing fancy deals... and trying to get hands on our women. And our fish!
- [first lines]
- Dermot Doyle: Evelyn, did Jesus have a big sister?
- Evelyn Doyle: No Dermot, he wasn't as lucky as you.
- District Judge: And you have no other source of revenue?
- Desmond Doyle: Ah, well sir, my father Henry who's sitting over here, and myself, we're setting up a bit of a tour of the Dublin pubs, like.
- District Judge: Surely that would represent expenditure rather than income?
- Desmond Doyle: Oh no, Your Honour, we'll be playing music like, for money!
- Dermot Doyle: [Evelyn has poured one cup with more milk than the others] I want the bigger one!
- Evelyn Doyle: No, the big one's mine, I'm the biggest.
- Desmond Doyle: I never laid a hand to her in anger once, though she gave me just cause for it. Maybe that's where I went wrong.
- Evelyn Doyle: [Evelyn's mother is running away from the block of flats with her suitcase]
- [Evelyn talking to her doll]
- Evelyn Doyle: Mummy's going shopping, Heidi. Do you like her nice new shoes and coat? But it's St Stephen's Day. Mummy, come back, it's St Stephen's Day, the shops are shut!
- Henry Doyle: [rays of sunlight come through the window] Look at the rays! Do you know what these are?
- Evelyn Doyle: No Grandad.
- Henry Doyle: Angel rays!
- Evelyn Doyle: Angel rays?
- Henry Doyle: Yes! These mean that your guardian angel is reminding you that he's waiting to help you. All you have to do is believe in them.
- Maurice Doyle: [the children are playing with only the train tracks and engine of a train set they got for Christmas] Daddy, where's the carriages?
- Desmond Doyle: Well son, Santa was a bit strapped for cash this year. Costs a lot of money to feed those elves, you know.