“And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”

“Populism is ultimately sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry "I don't know what's going on, but I've just had enough of it! It cannot go on! It must stop!”

“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.”

“Aye, they be eggs alright, just not from thunder. They be Cinderflare's eggs. They be all broken 'cause the young'ns hatched a few months ago.”

“Forget being a decent man, Terence. Go for castability. Could you even play a decent man in a movie?”