- Milligan, Reporter in Fleet Street Pub: This is the man in the street, Frank, the average man. And he's asking you a question the average man in the street wants answering. World war over Danzig?
- "Man-in-the-Street" in Fleet Street Pub: That's right. As you say, Danzig's only a small place.
- Frank Lockwood: So was Thermopylae. And Verdun. And Madrid. All very small places. Big enough to bury the people that hadn't the guts to fight for them. Did you ever hear Hitler laugh?
- [Man shakes head]
- Frank Lockwood: I did. I was in Vienna when he entered the city in triumph. "Providence has sent me here to save you," he bellowed to the mob of his followers. "And Heaven help all those that have been against me." And then he laughed. It's a kind of mad laugh. And they all laughed too, in the same way. They were baying for blood. Hitler was giving it to them. We're in this for our own sweet selves. If we want to save our skins we've got to fight.
- Evans, Foreign Editor: This government of ours doesn't realise what sort of a world we're living in.
- Cmdr. Pittwaters: I suppose you're sure of the name of this perishing fjord?
- Colin Metcalfe: Of course I'm sure!
- Cmdr. Pittwaters: I always get them mixed up myself.
- Colin Metcalfe: Damn you, Evans, for a bigoted nit-witted lump of nauseating suet. Romania nothing, it's Norway next.
- Soldier in Fleet Street Pub with Harry: Seems a long time since Dunkirk.
- Harry, Soldier in Fleet Street Pub: 'Ere - what day did you get away?
- Soldier in Fleet Street Pub with Harry: I got away on Tuesday.
- Harry, Soldier in Fleet Street Pub: Tuesday? You were lucky - Wednesday was 'orrible.
- Soldier in Fleet Street Pub with Harry: Was it?
- Harry, Soldier in Fleet Street Pub: Yes - rained all the ruddy day...
- Political Journalist: But the most dramatic moment came when Amory looked at the Prime Minister and said: 'I invoke Oliver Cromwell. "You've sat here too long for any good you do. Depart I say.In the name of God, go.'"
- Cmdr. Pittwaters: [entering a pub during an air-raid] Alright gentlemen, you can resume the vertical. What we technically call a near miss. Large whisky please.
- Cmdr. Pittwaters: I suppose you've heard they dug up the golf course at St. Andrews and they're planting potatoes on the fairways...