- George Warleggan: It was the will of God that he was born on St. Vaentine's Day. He shall be Valentine.
- Nicholas Warleggan: Valentine? There has been no such name in the family.
- George Warleggan: There has been not one such as my son in any family,
- Nicholas Warleggan: Does Elizabeth like it?
- George Warleggan: She will when I tell her. Ours is a union of the old gentry and the new. We need a new name.
- Nicholas Warleggan: You won't get away from Warleggan.
- George Warleggan: I shall never wish to. It is too respected and feared.
- Nicholas Warleggan: Fear can be bad for business.
- George Warleggan: Respect and fear are one.
- Agatha Poldark: There be one thing amiss with your little son, George Warleggan. Good seldom comes to a child born under a black moon. I only knew two, and they both came to bad ends.