- Colonel Barton-Barrington: This love of animals and nature has always been part and parcel of the British way of life and it's going to go on being. Now then, we've welcomed to our country thousands of foreigners - French, Dutch, Poles, Czechs, and so on, and a lot of them are jolly decent people and anyway they can't help being foreigners...
- Russian Sniper: I bring greetings from the Red Army to the heroic comrades in the British fields, factories and workshops. We are proud to be allied to the free people of Britain. We mean to smash the fascist invaders. I myself have shot over a hundred Hitlerites. And I'm looking forward to shooting many more.
- Capt. Dawson: What kind of bird?
- Hazel Broome: A Tawny Pipit.
- Capt. Dawson: Never heard of it. Have you Sergeant Dawkins?
- Sergeant Dawkins: Nah - never 'eard of it Sir. Mostly sparrers round our way!
- Pickering: [to the Tawny Pipit] What are you sitting on, you little beauty? I'd give a lot to get my hands under there!
- Alec: You was in time Battle of Britain, weren't you Mr Bancroft?
- Jimmy Bancroft: Yeah.
- Alec: What was that like?
- Jimmy Bancroft: Hmmm. You know a big cricket match? Thousands of people in the grandstands, and everyone buying the lunchtime papers to see the score? It was rather like that.
- Alec: They had a lot more players than us though, didn't they?
- Jimmy Bancroft: Yes, but we were playing for the best side in the world. We were playing for England. And we were playing on our home ground...