- Kitty: They say you can meet your future spouse at a wedding, but that seems incredibly unlikely unless I marry a half-wit or a relative.
- Kitty: If I were getting married, I'd have been ready at dawn.
- Joseph Patten: If you were getting married it would be more like pistols at dawn.
- Millman: People get married, because, as you say, circumstances intervene. We rarely see them coming though, do we? And that's life, isn't it?
- Joseph Patten: It can't be easy, being a good father.
- David Dakin: Not half as hard as being a bad one.
- Tom: [coming back to the house for the reception after the wedding service] Well, the ritual bit is over, Professor, but the sacrifice is only just beginning.
- Evelyn: We all want other people to make our decisions for us, don't we? That way we never have to blame ourselves.
- Miss Spoon: All right. But you have to do something for me.
- Joseph Patten: And what's that?
- Miss Spoon: Tea in London.
- Joseph Patten: My pleasure.
- Miss Spoon: And you have to bring along some eligible boys for me.
- Joseph Patten: Kitty, you're far too good for eligible boys. What you need are some ineligible ones.
- Evelyn: [talking about confetti bombs] Daddy wants me to light one near Aunt Bella to see if her breath catches fire.
- Miss Spoon: How old are you, Jimmy?
- Jimmy: Eight and a half. How old are you?
- Miss Spoon: A little over twenty-one.
- Jimmy: No, you're not. You're an old woman.