- Compo: I've been romancing her all this time and it's got me nowhere.
- Foggy: "Romancing her," he says. you haven't got a romantic bone in your body.
- Compo: Listen, if I want any advice on romance, I won't come to an unqualified poof.
- Sid: Hey, are you trying to hurt his rotten feelings?
- Compo: Pah?
- Sid: How do you know he's not a qualified poof?
- Compo: Ah, but she has a kind of weathered beauty. You know how beautiful the old public wash houses look in the moonlight, and you wonder maybe if there is a God after all, and suddenly for a few minutes you want to do something reckless like comb your hair or wash your feet? Well, that's how I want to be with Nora. I've been romancing her all this time, and it's got me nowhere.
- Compo: I wanna celebrate being alive! I wanna feel the blood rushing through me wellies! I wanna do something memorable to Nora Batty!