- Minister: [speaking into a microphone attached to a recorder] One, two, buckle my shoe...
- Adam Adamant: [off screen] I beg your pardon?
- Minister: Three, four, knock at the door...
- [blows gently into the microphone]
- Minister: Five...
- Adam Adamant: What exactly are you doing, Minister?
- Minister: I am trying to record our conversation.
- Adam Adamant: For posterity?
- Minister: No, for the typing pool.
- Esta Canfield: Rufus collects new faces as other men collect butterflies.
- Adam Adamant: With a different manner of mounting, madam, I trust?
- Adam Adamant: You realize I abhor your interference in this affair?
- Georgina Jones: Oh, when you say things like that, I go all warm and cuddly.
- James Denton: Look, Esta, you know how dangerous it is meeting here.
- Esta Canfield: Only if you persist in looking like the poor man's double agent.