- Robin: I've decided that all European languages are really, really boring.
- Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford: [Tongue in cheek] Oh, I'll inform Tolstoy, Balzac, and Shakespeare immediately.
- Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford: May I remind you this conversation's being recorded.
- Carolyn Snow: [Contemptuously] Bring out the album!
- Ingrid Pamber: [looking in awe at the interior of the Khoori mansion] Isn't it a wonderful house?
- Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford: Yes, beautiful! Built by the poor for the rich. Maintained by the poor for the rich. It says money and privilege. Absolutely demands respect!
- Ingrid Pamber: What's the use of having money if you don't flaunt it?
- Mavrikiev: [Understating sfter autopsying the beaten dead girl] Whoever did this is not a nice man.