Daddy: You will eat your vegetables NOW, or we’ll stay here all night.
Little Mantotjie: NO! Won’t! Don’t like beetroot!

Zackie: “Darling, I asked you not to wear your pink clingfilm frock to the Sunday Times Christmas party… AND you arrive here reeking of garlic too!”
Manto: “Speak for yourself, silly boy, wearing your ‘Tirade Against Couture’ T-shirt for the fifth time this week… now make yourself useful and grab the editor’s bottle of whisky while he’s not looking!”