"Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it."

"Brian (asked how he feels about being a politician): Passes the time. Fills in that awkward gap between the cradle an…"

"George: That flaming dog has messed on our steps again. It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing disappear from th…"

"Polly: Question is whether you hate the coach party because they're like the dogs or hate the dogs because they're li…"

"George: I hate them all."

"Mrs Wicksteed: Of course, I've known for years our marriage has been a mockery. My body lying there night after night…"

"I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain."

"That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water."

""Then I want to end up 'Norwich. Well it's an epigrammatic way of saying 'Knickers off ready when I come home"."

"Geoff: We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules."