- Elizabeth Urquhart: [Finding her husband absentmindedly remembering the death of Mattie Storin] Francis?
- Francis Urquhart: A little debris from the past, that's all.
- Elizabeth Urquhart: Past is past, Francis. It's done.
- Francis Urquhart: Yes. She was so long in the air, Elizabeth.
- Elizabeth Urquhart: I know. Everything you've done was for your country's good. You know that. Everything. I admire and believe in you without reserve. You know that too.
- Francis Urquhart: Thank you, Elizabeth.
- Tim Stamper: Do we need opinion pollsters? That's what you are, isn't it?
- Sarah Harding: People seem to think I'm worth the money.
- Tim Stamper: You get the answers wrong, don't you?
- Sarah Harding: I can get you any answers you like, Mr. Stamper. That's why I'm in such demand.
- Francis Urquhart: [after meeting the King] No manners in the ordinary sense, no small talk, no apparent sense of irony. It's all tremendously interesting but he wants to do this every week. He'll have to realise the lonely hearts club is all very well, but I can't fritter my time away in idle chatter. I have to run the country for one thing. And at this rate our royal friend's going to make that more and more like the Chief Whip's job. A pat on the head and a biscuit here, a short, sharp shock there and a good boot up the backside where indicated.
- Tim Stamper: So, how did you find His Majesty?
- Francis Urquhart: Oh, much as expected. He wants to be of use.
- Tim Stamper: Well he is of use. He can give garden parties and open things, and save us the bother of electing some god awful President or something.
- Francis Urquhart: If he thinks that being King allows him to say what he likes, he is a bloody fool.
- Tim Stamper: After your divorce the family made a financial settlement.
- Princess Charlotte: Yes they did, jolly mingy one too.
- Tim Stamper: Ah, quite. Wasn't done from affection or compassion, was it? They were purchasing your silence. Your good behaviour. There's a story you could tell, not only the intimate details of your own life but also the lives of others. It would be such a sensational story that you could ask any price for it you care to name. And it would almost certainly bring down the monarchy, yes?
- Princess Charlotte: Right, I suppose.
- Tim Stamper: Why didn't you go ahead and do it?
- Princess Charlotte: Well I couldn't do that to her.
- Tim Stamper: The Queen.
- Princess Charlotte: And they said that if I did... I'd have a very bad accident.
- The King: You are a clever man, Mr. Urquhart.
- Francis Urquhart: You are too kind, Sir. I'd rather be remembered as a wise man than a clever one. But I think that sound man is the highest praise I can expect.
- The King: I'd want to be remembered as a good man.
- [Francis Urquhart arrives at Chequers after a difficult meeting with the King]
- Francis Urquhart: Oh dear.
- Elizabeth Urquhart: He was difficult, then?
- Francis Urquhart: He was. In fact, I think we have a new Leader of the opposition, Elizabeth.
- Elizabeth Urquhart: Break him, Francis. Bring him down.
- Francis Urquhart: [grimly] I'll bring the *lot* of them down if I have to.
- Elizabeth Urquhart: Good.