- Dr. Ryan: [on phone] The Minister must be warned immediately!
- Petherbridge: [on other line] Look, now don't you worry, old chap, just leave everything to me, would you? Goodbye. Thank you for calling.
- [hangs up]
- Petherbridge: Oh, Miss Wilkins, make a note, would you, to remind me first thing in the morning: haircut.
- Sinoda: You disapprove of beauty?
- Adam Adamant: Shall we say that I don't make it a fetish?
- Sinoda: Beauty is not a fetish, it is the sublime truth.
- Adam Adamant: It is also only in the eye of the beholder.
- Sinoda: That is a feeble excuse to justify ugliness.
- Adam Adamant: But ugliness and beauty need no justification. Without one, how could we recognize the other?
- Sinoda: I disagree. Beauty is a form of genius. It's higher indeed than genius...
- Adam Adamant: As it needs no explanation.
- Sinoda: I see you know your Oscar Wilde.
- Adam Adamant: Personally.
- Sinoda: Oh, save yourself the energy. Not even you can escape.
- Adam Adamant: That has been said to me many times before, sir.
- Sinoda: But not by better men.
- Adam Adamant: You overrate yourself, Sinoda, and I shall show you little mercy.
- Sinoda: [laughs] You really are an incredible optimist.
- Adam Adamant: Miss Carter, please.
- Paula Carter: Yes, Mr. Adamant?
- Adam Adamant: Please, I refuse to believe you are in league with this madman. For pity's sake, help us!
- Paula Carter: You're so clever, but so vulnerable.