“Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.”

“Ah well, there you go. Young people are always demanding respect instead of trying to earn it. In my day, respect was something to strive for. Something to be given, not taken." Major Pettigrew”

“The selfmoment I could pray;And from my neck so freeThe Albatross fell off, and sankLike lead into the sea.”

“The daisies and buttercups nodded in the breeze, like skinny-necked old ladies listening to dance music.What if necessary evil had an opposite? This is what it would be. This unnecessary good.For the first time in days, Mo smiled.”

“What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?”

“And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you too young to understand it.”