- Ma Larkin: [dinner table] All right! If you don't want to have a party, you don't have to have one.
- Primrose: I don't want your kind of party.
- Pop Larkin: What kind of party do you want?
- Victoria: [taunting] She wants boys.
- Primrose: Must we discuss it in front of children?
- Ma Larkin: [as little sister aims to get in one more] Be quiet, Victoria.
- Miss Jimson: They've made it quite clear it won't make a scrap of difference - the loan is still to be withdrawn. Well, that's what they say, and there's no way we can change their minds.
- Pop Larkin: I don't give a tinker's what the bank says, Miss J.
- Miss Jimson: But, Mr. Larkin...!
- Pop Larkin: But me no buts, Miss J. No 'howevers' or 'ifs' or 'on the other hands'. What we got here is a principle. I promised my two girls a swim in the pool without freezing their... toes off. And that's exactly what we're gonna do.