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• I’d the upbringing a nun would envy and that’s the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
  • Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964), act 1

• Kath: Can he be present at the birth of his child?...
  Ed: It’s all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.
  • Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964), act 3

• Every luxury was lavished on you—atheism, breast-feeding, circumcision.
  • Loot (1967), act 1

• Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.
  • Loot (1967), act 1

• Reading isn’t an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paper work down to a minimum.
  • Loot (1967), act 2

• You were born with your legs apart. They’ll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.
  • What the Butler Saw (1969), act 1