- Bobby Dogherty: He says you'll find lime juice and soda has a potent little kick in it.
- Horace Rumpole: [laconically] The kick of a mouse in carpet slippers, I should imagine.
- Horace Rumpole: [describing his marriage] I had no choice in the matter at all. I was called up to marriage like military service. Her father was head of chambers. He gave me to understand what was expected of me.