- Dr. Barney Barnes: I gave nitrous oxide at first, to get him under.
- Inspector Cockrill: Oh yes, stuff the dentist gives you, hmmm -- commonly known as "laughing gas."
- Dr. Barney Barnes: Used to be -- actually the impurities cause the laughs.
- Inspector Cockrill: Oh, just the same as in our music halls.
- [dictating a report about the murder case]
- Inspector Cockrill: "In view of my failure - correction, comparative failure - I feel that I have no alternative but to offer you, sir, my resignation, in the sincere hope that you will not accept it." Full stop.
- Dr. White: I do hope everything can be arranged discreetly.
- Inspector Cockrill: Umm, shouldn't think so for a moment.
- Dr. White: Why not? Press? Do they have to be seen?
- Inspector Cockrill: Can't keep 'em out.
- Dr. White: Oh, dear.
- Inspector Cockrill: I don't mind; they always give me a good write-up.
- Dr. Barney Barnes: [after nurse Esther's breakdown] So without bothering to inquire, you scared the life out of her like any flat-footed copper off the beat.
- Inspector Cockrill: The police force has not a monopoly of fallen arches, Dr. Barnes. Ask any chiropodist.
- The Hospital Staff - The Doctors: Dr. Barnes: Did you get us here just to insult us?
- The Police: Inspector Cockrill: No. I only like to strike an informal note.
- The Hospital Staff - The Doctors: Mr. Eden: Are you trying to make me lose my temper?
- The Police: Inspector Cockrill: Oh, that was only a secondary object.
- Mr. Eden: All, all are gone, the old familiar faces
- Nurse Woods: They left their appendixes behind them.
- The Nurses: Nurse Esther Sanson: It is a lovely night.
- Mr. Eden: Perfect.
- [quoting Shakespeare]
- Mr. Eden: "In such a night as this,/When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees/And they did make no noise, in such a night/Troilus methinks mounted the Trojan walls/And sighed his soul toward the Grecian tents/Where Cressid lay that night."
- Inspector Cockrill: [startling the couple] "In such a night/Did young Lorenzo swear he loved her well,/Stealing her soul with many vows of faith,/And ne'er a true one." Good night, Mr. Eden.
- Inspector Cockrill: [exposing a lurking Dr. Barnes] Good night, Dr. Barnes.
- Dr. Barney Barnes: How's the patient?
- The Patients: Joseph Higgins: I could do with a pint.
- Dr. Barney Barnes: That's the pre-operative adjuvant.
- The Police: Inspector Cockrill: Well, well, well, a master of surgery mixing it with an NRCP. Ho, ho, what a delicious spectacle. We might arrange a future contest to aid some deserving charity, don't you think?
- The Hospital Staff - The Doctors: Dr. Barnes: So, without bothering to inquire, you scare the life out of her, like any flat-footed cooper off the beat.
- The Police: Inspector Cockrill: The police force has not a monopoly of fallen arches, Dr. Barnes - ask any chiropodist
- The Nurses: Sister Bates: You know it's the truth. If he wanted to marry her, do you think she'd hesitate if you weren't here?
- Dr. Barney Barnes: Well, I am here.
- The Nurses: Sister Bates: You won't be much longer, not if he knows about it.
- The Nurses: Sister Bates: You killed a girl, didn't you? A few years ago in Herren's Park.
- Dr. Barney Barnes: That's not true and I've had just about enough of it.
- The Nurses: Sister Bates: Now there's been another death, and White's had you on the carpet.
- Dr. Barney Barnes: What's this got to do with Eden?
- The Nurses: Sister Bates: You're in his way, that's all.
- Dr. Barney Barnes: You're imagining things.
- The Nurses: Sister Bates: No I'm not. I'm seeing the truth. You get like that. You get to see people like you never did before, all the rotten things you shut your eyes to once. And it hurts, and that's a comfort. You're in his way, don't you see?
- Dr. Barney Barnes: What are you getting at?
- The Nurses: Sister Bates: You'll find out. I'm going to join them.
- The Nurses: Sister Bates: I saw him kissing her in the ward last night.
- Dr. Barney Barnes: [stunned] What?
- The Nurses: Sister Bates: That hurt, didn't it? Now you know how I feel. I saw him. I saw the way he looked at her. He's in love! As far as he can be.
- Dr. Barney Barnes: If I were you I'd have a nice cup of cocoa and go to bed!
- The Nurses: Nurse Freddi Linley: Oughtn't we to go back?
- Mr. Eden: Why? It's a lovely night.
- The Nurses: Nurse Freddi Linley: We're still suspects.
- Mr. Eden: That's a very good thought to escape from.
- Mr. Eden: You seen Barney?
- The Nurses: Nurse Freddi Linley: No. I don't know what to do about him.
- Mr. Eden: Isn't it time you made up your mind?
- The Nurses: Nurse Freddi Linley: He's behaving so ridiculously.
- Mr. Eden: I don't blame him: he's in love with you. Don't blame him for that either.
- The Police: Inspector Cockrill: I suppose I should be glad my suspects haven't been reduced any further.
- Mr. Eden: Wonder where that doodlebug dropped.
- Nurse Woods: Somewhere near the village?
- Mr. Eden: I hope it missed my house. What a life.
- Nurse Woods: Welll, it can't last forever.
- Mr. Eden: Nurses stand up to it awfully well.
- Nurse Woods: So do the doctors, sir.
- Mr. Eden: One can get used to anything, in time.
- Nurse Woods: Still, it must've been a bit of a change for you too, sir, considering.
- Mr. Eden: Considering what?
- Nurse Woods: Your past.
- Mr. Eden: Hmm?
- Nurse Woods: [she removes his headgear] Thank you. I mean Harley Street, Rolls-Royce, lovely ladies.
- Mr. Eden: All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
- Nurse Woods: They left their appendixes behind them.
- Mr. Eden: They were happy to be in the fashion.
- Nurse Woods: And even happier to be in your consulting room. It's those eyes, of course. The wounded stag looks that no woman can resist.