- Mrs. Phineas Hill: One moment, you worm. I might have known. All these checks I've written to Charles, five of them! Supposedly for his pet charities. Huh! Well, I'm through being charitable to everyone he pets.
- Mrs. Phineas Hill: What are those *obscene* remarks she's making?
- Charlie Hill: It's not obscene, it's French.
- Mrs. Phineas Hill: French *is* obscene!
- Frenchie: What is the meaning of this obscene?
- Charlie Hill: It means you better go.
- Frenchie: Very well then, I obscene!
- Angela Bonfils: There's nothing wrong with you.
- Charlie Hill: Yes there is, I'm in love.
- Angela Bonfils: Love?
- Charlie Hill: You probably don't know about love.
- Angela Bonfils: Well I certainly know it isn't about being numb, weak at the knees.
- Charlie Hill: Peanuts. I only wish they were diamonds.
- Angela Bonfils: That's silly, you can't eat diamonds.
- Charlie Hill: Diamonds buy a lot of peanuts.
- Angela Bonfils: I got a lot of peanuts.
- Charlie Hill: Can I have a magazine? I'll treasure this all my life, I'll sleep with it under my pillow.
- Angela Bonfils: It would do you more good if you read it.
- Mrs. Phineas Hill: The Belle of New York. A fine title for somebody in our type of work.
- Angela Bonfils: Oh, it's only their way of showing their love for our welfare house.
- Mrs. Phineas Hill: Amazing how they've grown to love our welfare house since you've grown.
- [Miss Wilkens bangs her bass drum]
- Mrs. Phineas Hill: Miss Wilkins.
- Angela Bonfils: Well, the important thing is they do come here.
- Mrs. Phineas Hill: But that *look* in their eyes. Not exactly the right kind of look for men who are seeking guidance - you know what I mean?
- Mrs. Phineas Hill: Honestly, if it weren't for your parents who built this welfare house, I'd advise you to - choose some other type of career.
- Angela Bonfils: Oh, but, Mrs. Hill this has been my home, my life. And I've tried so hard to - to equip myself for this kind of work.
- Elsie Wilkins: If you ask me, it's your equipment that's causing all the...
- Mrs. Phineas Hill: Miss Wilkins!
- Angela Bonfils: The fact that you have chosen to spend your time here, in these surroundings, is proof that you have forsaken your former hangouts - those environments of sin and temptation. We are proud of the great number of you who have deserted the evil of wine, women and song.
- Mrs. Phineas Hill: Oh, it's not your fault, Angela. If you were only a little plainer. If you don't look so... so...
- Angela Bonfils: So?
- Mrs. Phineas Hill: Well, if you only would look a little more so-so than so.
- Angela Bonfils: Oh.
- Mrs. Phineas Hill: Charles, what am I gonna do about you? You've been a problem from the day you learned how to whistle.
- Angela Bonfils: [singing] Give old Lucifer a shove, You can light your way above, If you let a little love, In your life.
- Angela Bonfils: What are you trying to do?
- Charlie Hill: I wanna be saved by you and for you.
- Angela Bonfils: You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
- Charlie Hill: I am, I'm an awful sinner.
- Charlie Hill: [singing] Kissing's believing, And when I kiss you, I feel as though, We were miles off the ground, Never knew that dreams came true, But miraculously they do...
- Charlie Hill: How do you know I'm not sincere? People can be wrong sometimes. Now, you mustn't be biased or prejudiced, Miss Bonfils. Just because a man is more "uptrodden" than downtrodden, is no reason to suspect his motives.
- Charlie Hill: [singing] Oops, my heart went whoops, The moment that we met, My heart went whoops, I never will forget, My heart turned hoops, The moment that I met you. Whoops, my feet went whoops, I nearly took a spill, My knees went whoops, They shook a bit until, My head went whoops...
- Angela Bonfils: Love is - an emotion that's *alive*, exciting, vibrant. You feel like a - billowy cloud. And you walk on air.
- Angela Bonfils: [singing] Wanna be naughty, Naughty but nice, See if I'm made of, Sugar and spice, To all convention, I call out: Gangway, I confess that I wanna care less...
- Max Ferris: Just fine, your wanting to turn a new leaf; but, you can't be this good all at once. It's too much of a shock to your nervous system. *And* mine.
- Charlie Hill: [singing] And oops, My heart went oops, It went into a spin, Of loop-the-loops, You must have thought me kin, To nincompoops...
- Angela Bonfils: How could I act like a - a frivolous woman?
- Elsie Wilkins: Well, you've got every part to play it with.
- Charlie Hill: [doorbell rings] Now, who could that be at this hour of the night?
- Max Ferris: Probably a little man, a white coat with a net.
- Charlie Hill: Haven't you any idea where I could find her?
- Elsie Wilkins: Well, let me see. You might try - you might try the gayer places!
- Max Ferris: We gotta do something. We can at least convince her you're not a heel.
- Charlie Hill: You couldn't even convince me.
- Angela Bonfils: Oh! Elsie!
- Elsie Wilkins: Oh, look at - garters!
- Angela Bonfils: Garters! Oh, but do you think we can be this bad?
- Elsie Wilkins: Oh, you're not being bad. You're just being a little naughty.
- Charlie Hill: [singing] I wanna be a dancin' man, While I can, Gonna leave my footsteps, On the sands of time...
- Elsie Wilkins: [singing] I'll put the whole thing on ice, That's if I'm naughty, Not really naughty, Just sort of naughty, But nice.
- Angela Bonfils: Elsie, I'm frightened.
- Elsie Wilkins: Why?
- Angela Bonfils: I like it.
- Elsie Wilkins: Me too.
- Male Chorus in the Bowery: [singing] The stars in her eyes and the stars up above, Just fill you with oceans and oceans of love, And your heart bobs around like a cork, When you're out with The Belle of New York.