- Opening Title Card: In the numerous streets of the Big City, house follows house, and in those houses, people live in layers - like wild birds carving their nests into the rock... nest above nest...
- Mads, Frandsens tidligere barnepige: Many years ago, I gave you such a spanking that I could feel it myself a long time afterwards... My, did that feel good... For the spanking you deserve today, I do not have enough strength, but, thank God, I can still give you a box on the ear!
- Title Card: Sooner or later, the misdeeds of tyrants always turn against them... Also, our "Hero," who recently held the whip, learned how to bend down.
- Title Card: Do you know the feeling of suddenly facing an old teacher? Before you know it, you are fingering your trouser hem, you stutter and blush to the roots of your hair! Something similar happened to Viktor. A month had gone by since Mads took the reins... and so deeply rooted was the memory of his childhood beatings that he voluntarily submitted to Mad's strict discipline.
- Ida, hans hystru: Let us see if, on Saturday, we can afford to collect your other pair of shoes from the cobbler.
- Ida, hans hystru: Tell Frederik to go and buy a pair of good apples... Father is so fond of roasted apples.
- Mads, Frandsens tidligere barnepige: Well, a bloody nose you gave me good and proper... but you just wait and see, my dear. You will be put in the corner yourself, trust me!
- Ida, hans hystru: But who will mind the house then? Would you, Mads?
- Mads, Frandsens tidligere barnepige: Yes.
- Ida, hans hystru: But you must promise me not to be hard on Viktor.
- Mads, Frandsens tidligere barnepige: HARD! Yes, but not evil!
- Viktor Frandsen, finmekaniker: A Mrs. Hansen is in the stairwell!
- Mads, Frandsens tidligere barnepige: Yes, it is the washerwoman. Let her in! You did not think that I was going to toil in a raw and cold washhouse?
- Karen, deres datter: Father, there is no need for you to be ashamed of being fond of the birds. Canaries are people too - so Mother always said.
- Viktor Frandsen, finmekaniker: I cannot stand this uncertainty... Until Ida comes back, there is no joy for me at all... I would gladly sacrifice everything to see her sweet face and hear her voice again.
- Fra Kryger, Idas Mor: I wonder... Is there not, I wonder, a small remnant of pride that you will not part with?
- Viktor Frandsen, finmekaniker: How foolish we men are! We believe that we carry the load since we make the money... but it is really SHE who carries everything... and is rewarded with her husband's brutish behavior!
- Mads, Frandsens tidligere barnepige: You men are all alike - foolish - stubborn - vain - conceited! You have a strange way of treating your wives. To begin with, it is all hearts and flowers... she is your "princess" and only God knows what... Later on, when she really deserves your admiration, you treat her as your maidservant... until, someday, another man turns up and you feel that your vanity has been offended - then, suddenly, she is of value to you again!
- Ida, hans hystru: Go and put the porridge in the tureen so that Father does not have to wait for his food!