- Demelza: [about Ross's trial] It do puzzle me exceedingly how a judge can be expected to listen to a case and get to the bottom of it, all in a few hours. Does he never ask for the truth in private before the trial begins?
- Demelza: [When advised against walking in the street in Bodmin] I was brought up a miner's daughter. There's nothing a few drunks can say that I cannot give back.