"What, never? / No, never! / What, never? / Well, hardly ever!"

“When your process of extermination begins, let our deaths be as swift and painless as you can conveniently make them.”

“I know what love is. There was a happy time when I didn't, but bitter experience has taught me.”

“Against our wills, papa—against our wills!”

“Man is nature's sole mistake.”

“Some word that teems with hidden meaning, like "Basingstoke". It might recall me to my saner self. For, after all, I am only Mad Margaret! Daft Meg! Poor Meg! He! he! he!”

“I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering.”