- Charlie: You can't cook or sew, I doubt if you can even knit. You know nothing about life, not what I call life. You're still only a moderate hand on a milling machine and if you had to fend for yourself in the midst of plenty you'd die of starvation. Those are only your bad points. I'm not saying you haven't got any good ones.
- Jennifer: You're mighty generous Mr Forbes. As for you, you've no looks, you're old fashioned, morbidly suspicious, dull, and your pipe makes horrible bubbly noises.
- Charlie: The world's made up of two kinds of people, you're one sort and I'm the other. Oh, we're together now, there's a war on, we need to be, but what's going to happen when it's over? Shall we go on like this or are we gonna slide back? That's what I want to know. I'm not marrying you Jenny until I'm sure, I'm turning you down without even asking you, do you understand?
- Mrs. Blythe: See if you can't get dance music on regional - the news Is nothing but that man 'Itler these days...
- Caldicott: You seem to be taking a deuce of a lot of stuff with you old man. How long do you think this war's going to last?
- Charters: Nothing like being on the safe side Caldicott.
- Caldicott: Personally I think it will be over by Christmas.
- Charters: Ha ha - that's what they said in the last war.
- Caldicott: Well, last time they said it would be over by Christmas and it wasn't. This time it might be.
- Charters: I doubt whether that's very sound logic old man.
- Charters: Talking of wartime sacrifices, Caldicott - do you remember old Parterton?
- Caldicott: Chap with all those rubber plantations in Malaya?
- Charters: Yes, that's the fellow. Do you remember his valet, Hawkins?
- Caldicott: Yes.
- Charters: He's evacuated to Weston-super-Mare.
- Caldicott: Really?
- Charters: Parterton's simply livid. Hasn't dressed himself for 30 years.
- Caldicott: What's he going to do about it?
- Charters: Follow him. To Weston-super-Mare.
- Caldicott: Oh, by the way, how many mines have we laid here this morning?
- Charters: Erm... 86. No no, 87.
- Caldicott: Sure?
- Charters: Positive.
- Caldicott: Hmm. We must remember not to bathe here after the war.
- Mrs. Blythe: [newlyweds Celia and Fred arrive at Mrs. B's guest house in Eastgate for their honeymoon] You won't be allowed out after 10:30, you know that don't you, the Front's all barricaded off.
- Celia: Oh that's alright, don't expect we shall want to go out much after blackout.
- George,The Crowson's Next Door Neighbour: All present and correct, colonel.
- Jim: About time.
- George,The Crowson's Next Door Neighbour: I only popped in for a quick one at the Red Lion.
- Jim: I might 've guessed it. Here we are, the country hoverin' on the brink and you can't even pass the Red Lion.
- George,The Crowson's Next Door Neighbour: Well, I was fortifyin' myself, that's all.
- Gwen: [as they approach the factory dormitory] I expect this place to be a cross between a House of Correction and a home for illegitimate children.
- Miss Wells: [having turned Celia down for the WAAFs, Wrens and ATS] You haven't thought of industry I suppose?
- Celia: I don't want to go in a factory if that's what you mean.
- Miss Wells: There's nothing to be afraid of in a factory. Mr Bevin
- [Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour]
- Miss Wells: needs another million woman you know. And I don't think we should disappoint him at a time like this.
- Celia: But I...
- Miss Wells: The men at the front need tanks, guns and planes. You can help your country just as much in an overall as you can in a uniform these days.