- Stacy Grant: [to Peggy] Let me give you a piece of advice, culled from years of devestating experience. Next to loss of money, deafness, and skin disease, passion can be the most dangerous.
- Stacy Grant: It seems to me I've been walking up and down stairs for hours.
- Susan Grieve: Its good for you.
- Stacy Grant: I *loath* clean living and outdoor sports.
- Stacy Grant: Susan, I like your poems very much.
- Susan Grieve: No you don't.
- Stacy Grant: I'm no judge really.
- Susan Grieve: You probably prefer the Byron school. All fire and brimstone.
- Stacy Grant: Susan, dear, I'm afraid you're very like one of those dignified elderly gentlemen, who sits in the window of his dignified club, gazing out at the crowds of underprivileged going by in the rain.
- Susan Grieve: I dare say you have me properly pigeonholed. Well-to-do Yankee spinster, no emotions worth mentioning, I really should have a cat.
- Stacy Grant: You make a habit of riding in those frightful things? Those clanging monsters. I shall never step one foot underground again. I'm neither a mole nor angleworm.
- Stacy Grant: I'm only trying to warn you he's just a nice American kid.
- Susan Grieve: Oh, those nice American kids - torn from Mom and a girlfriend, from the ice cream cone and the hot dog, and the car and a good paying job, learning to kill and be killed - an easy, cosy pattern. You have no more idea of what goes on in the heads of those nice American kids than the man in the moon.
- Susan Grieve: Where did you run into him?
- Stacy Grant: He was at a party, bored stiff, on his way to being tight. I asked him on impulse. Now I wonder why. Frankly the idea of dinner with Peggy and Novak...
- Susan Grieve: Peggy?
- Stacy Grant: My exceedingly beautiful and arrogant secretary. She's going to be for the hero. Blind date, I believe it's called. Grisly idea.
- Susan Grieve: And I'm supposed to be for you. To make the whole thing look less obvious.
- Susan Grieve: It's disconcerting, isn't it - to be involved with someone with exceptional quality; especially to those of us who aren't exceptional at all.
- Stacy Grant: I'm a bore and victim of everybody: my friends, my secretary, my business clients, why even of a casual stranger whom I meet and immediately ask out to dinner.
- Susan Grieve: Don't you worry about tomorrow night. I'll wear my most seductive dress, I'll put perfume behind my ears, I will not argue, and I will be a credit to you.
- Stacy Grant: That's a good girl.
- Stacy Grant: Susan loves nature and the downtrodden. Sometimes I think she loves them the way a dentist loves a bad tooth.
- Mr. Roderick Moran, Jr.: That's the trouble with the world. It's the old folks who decide what to do; but, I think its high time the young folks had a say.
- Stacy Grant: There he is. At the bar, as usual.
- Susan Grieve: You seem to forget, lonely, young men in uniform like to sit somewhere besides the hotel room.
- Susan Grieve: I think he dislikes us intensely.
- Stacy Grant: Oh dear, here they come. I can't remember when I've had a more exhausting evening.
- Susan Grieve: There's an almost eerie sexiness about her.
- Stacy Grant: You're so right. Did you notice the way they reared their heads when they were introduced? Like a couple of cobras in search of their mate.
- Slick Novak: Grandpappy came to US because there was a demand for cheap labor. He wasn't a pioneer, he was an immigrant.
- Susan Grieve: I don't see the difference!
- Slick Novak: Maybe you don't. Most folks do.
- Susan Grieve: I think I better go home. I have to be up at seven. I know its unfortunate to be the first to suggest to leave.
- Stacy Grant: But, of course, Susan, dear. No matter how dull the party, the first one to leave is momentarily loathed by everyone.
- Mr. Roderick Moran, Jr.: Lieutenant Novak, excuse me for asking this. How does a guy get to be a hero?
- Slick Novak: I wouldn't know, sir.
- Slick Novak: I guess I just never ran into a girl as bright as you.
- Susan Grieve: Its your own fault. If you'd gone with Peggy...
- Slick Novak: Quit dragging her into it or I'll bop you one on the nose. If I'd wanted Peggy, I could have gone with her. I happen to like you.
- Slick Novak: Oh.
- Susan Grieve: I'm afraid I'm not very good at entertaining a hero.
- Mr. Castle: Have I complained?
- Susan Grieve: We seem constantly at swords points. Well, we have one thing in common, at least. We both smoke.
- Slick Novak: Look, I got sucked into that cocktail party because I ran into a guy I knew from overseas and he was with a dame that was giving it.
- Susan Grieve: Once in awhile, you'd think we were passengers exchanging information on a train. I guess I'm not very good at this sort of thing.
- Slick Novak: That's for me to decide, isn't it?
- Slick Novak: I used to like to read stories about the South Seas. I thought it must be pretty terrific sitting under a palm tree with a beautiful native girl, drinking coconut milk, watching somebody do the hula hula.
- Susan Grieve: She started having little flirtations. Harmless, at first, but more serious as time went on. When she was in the middle of one of them, she'd be kind and gay.
- Susan Grieve: I was bringing your breakfast in bed. I want to pamper you and you won't cooperate.
- Slick Novak: Sorry, I'll do better next time.
- Susan Grieve: Well, anyway, here it is.
- Slick Novak: Oh, I don't want any breakfast.
- Susan Grieve: Can't I watch you eat? I like the way your mouth moves. Its fascinating.
- Slick Novak: You're the champion coffee drinker of all time.
- Susan Grieve: Father used to say it warms the cockles of the heart.
- Slick Novak: I don't think your heart needs warming, Susan.
- Susan Grieve: Not today. It's a regular little hot plate of a heart, already.
- Stacy Grant: Susan, dear, I feel you have things to tell me. Why don't you just consider me as some doting old uncle, for the moment; the one who once photographed you on a bearskin rug.
- Susan Grieve: Oh, Stacy, there are times when you are positively shameless.
- Susan Grieve: Yesterday, Lieutenant Novak said he was going to make love to you, you're such a wonderful cook.
- Stacy Grant: Darling, you look divine. Is it a new hat?
- Susan Grieve: Yes, it is. It cost far too much.
- Stacy Grant: Well, darling, I must admit you have completely revolutionized my entire opinion of you.
- Stacy Grant: He may have been a hero and the uniform is devastating; but, that's the trouble. The really dreadful let down comes when you see them dressed in civvies - all set to go to work in a soap factory in Akron.
- Stacy Grant: What I simply can't understand is how a man like that ever got to first base with you? He's not out of the top drawer and you are out of the top drawer, Susan, darling and I cannot see...
- Susan Grieve: At the moment I feel as if I come from underneath the chiffonier.
- Susan Grieve: Do I look so awful?
- Stacy Grant: You look fine.
- Susan Grieve: I did everything I could to cover up; but, nothing does much good. You don't say it isn't true because your expression was one of genuine horror.
- Stacy Grant: People make much too much fuss about love. So many things are more interesting!
- Susan Grieve: Such as?
- Stacy Grant: Well, society, gardening, a good murder mystery - even snails in garlic butter.
- Peggy Markham: What a sweet hat. Is it new?
- Susan Grieve: Yes.
- Peggy Markham: Would it be out of turn for me to ask where you got it?
- Susan Grieve: At Henri Bandel's.
- Peggy Markham: I guess it set you back plenty. I see its a special hat. A special occasion sort of a hat?
- Slick Novak: Peggy, have you read poetry?
- Peggy Markham: Read poetry? Why should I ?
- Stacy Grant: Miss Grieve is a famous poetess.
- Peggy Markham: Oh, for heaven sakes!
- Susan Grieve: There have been moments when I have wished I hadn't even learned to read or write. This is one of them.
- Peggy Markham: Oh, but I just adore poetry.