Mr Palfrey of Westminster
"I don't think that's quite the sort of question to put to a prissy bastard."

"Our country, right or wrong. We leave small matters, such as crises of conscience, fastidiousness over the truth, to traitors."

"There are times when you're quite heroic."

Spooks | MI-5
"Well, if that isn't illegal it's very, very naughty."

"That is a totally illegal, madcap scheme. I like it."

"It's like it's stopped raining in my head."

"I had a sign hanging over me... end of the world, end of the world, end of the world."

"Let's all slide along the learning curve."

"It's the usual survivalist fantasy - destroy the cities, only the pure in heart survive."


Miscellaneous:
"Do we own up or lie like gentlemen?"

"One does not climb the social ladder in order to slide back down again."

"Can we impose a levity embargo here?"

"I think we have a slight togetherness shortfall."

Even the stones weep here.

"What woman could say no to a bit of first class mail?"

"You are not the only sneaky pebble on the beach."

"Why do you have to go around assuming that boxes have things in them?"

"I know, I know - virtue ought to triumph and all that, but that ain't the way the world works."

"A game with high stakes, in deadly earnest."

"If I'm wrong, you can say I told you so - provided you can speak loudly and quickly."

"We can afford no more hollow heroes."

"All the fabric of my reign, little by little, is beginning to fail."

"Before it goes out, the candle always flares."


Cranford
"I find myself charged with vile and pressing news!"

"I cannot deny that I was very vexed, but we ought not to invest them with the power to upset us for a fortnight!"

"A woman is never the equal of a man. She is his superior in every case."

"Winter is the darkest season when one is alone."

"Do you think I am made of stone? Do you think the endless drip of water will make a dent in me?"

"You can't put a price on kindness."

"People who have been married are all the same. They leave their powers of judgement at the altar."

"I think it is not the despair that hurts one, but the hope."

"We would not, even if we could, be ostentatiously vulgar."

"I sometimes wonder if the presence of money is not more unsettling than the lack of it."

"What good is a husband to the consitition?"