“- Lily: I never did get much good out of books.
- Cragg: You are a fool. You could learn a lot from that book. But if you are content to stay here like a dumb animal in this miserable life, then I wash my hands from you.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Lily
Alphonse Ethier - Cragg

“This object I'm holding here is called... well, some of you may have seen one before, it's called a book. You may have seen one on television.”
Denholm Elliott - Headmaster

“I never lend books to coal miners.”
Peter Vaughan - Mackenzie

“Strange that a man can live with a woman for ten years and not know the first thing about her.”
James Stephenson - Howard Joyce

“I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true.”
Edna May Wonacott - Ann Newton