- Jeremy Aldermarten QC: [Trying to talk Julia out of going to Africa and marry him] Starving isn't the answer.
- Julia Piper: And you are?
- Jeremy Aldermarten QC: It's suddenly become clear to me. God, when I - when I think of the years that I've wasted with ghastly debs and brainless bimbos when - when all along what I've wanted is someone with guts and spirit, backbone... someone, in short, like you.
- James Kavanagh QC: [Seeing the scrapbook his late mother kept on him for the first time] She had a higher opinion of me than I have of meself at the moment.