- Pete Springer: [having seen Nasa and Moonglow] Why were you whipping him?
- Nasa Springer: I was practicing in case I ever get married.
- Nasa Springer: I love to see your head bandaged. It looks so romantic.
- [giggles]
- Nasa Springer: Let me know when it gets well and I'll *whip* you again.
- Nasa Springer: You don't want to marry me, Charlie.
- Charlie Moffett: I do, Nasa! I'm crazy about you.
- Nasa Springer: You'll be making arrangements for a nervous breakdown.
- Sunny De Lane: So, you're walking out on me, eh?
- Lawrence Crosby: Yeah. I'm afraid you don't deserve me, darling. I liked you a lot. Still do. But, you've been two-timing Larry.
- Sunny De Lane: And I suppose you've been on the level with me?
- Lawrence Crosby: I pay the bills. I'm allowed a little leeway. Goodbye.
- Sunny De Lane: You'll come back.
- Lawrence Crosby: Oh, yeah?
- Sunny De Lane: Yeah. I understand your little peculiarities.
- Lawrence Crosby: You're like night in the south seas. Mysterious. Limitless. Beautiful! And so coolingly warm.
- Lawrence Crosby: I like you.
- Nasa Springer: Do you?
- Lawrence Crosby: It wouldn't take much for me to get sloppily sentimental.
- Nasa Springer: Mmm. It wouldn't take much for me to let you.
- Lawrence Crosby: I doubt if there's any sin in the calendar I haven't been guilty of.
- Nasa Springer: Oh, Mr. Crosby, you must've been kept awfully busy.
- Lawrence Crosby: Well, I'll tell you. I'll lump them all together and commit them five or six at a time.
- Nasa Springer: Ohhh, you naughty child.
- Nasa Springer: Just what do you think of me?
- Jay Randall: Well, I think you're an utterly spoiled young woman. Self-centered. Egotistical. Conceited. And you'll never be completely happy until some man takes you by the scruff of the neck and beats the devil out of you.
- Nasa Springer: You can be aggravating at times. You're the first man that has ever been around me for a month without making love to me.
- Jay Randall: To be perfectly frank, Nasa, I don't know that I regret what happened.
- [Nasa slaps Jay]
- Jay Randall: You savage!
- Sunny De Lane: Oh! I'm one of your most ardent admirers. Why I've even cut your picture out of 'Vanity Fair' and stuck it on a mirror - in my bedroom. A woman can't show more devotion for her hero than that.
- Nasa Springer: Where are we going?
- Jay Randall: Well, you said you wanted to go slumming. So, I picked a place to eat in the Village. Only - wild poets and anarchist eat there. It's pretty tough.
- Mort: I know my place. I am half-caste. But, you're white. There's nothing you can't be.
- Nasa Springer: There's nothing I want to be - except happy. And I'm not. Why?
- Mort: You brought this on us all - you and that jezebel!
- Silas Jennings: Now, you listen to me, Mort. I don't aim to hear bad about no woman - leastwise a friend of mine. I'm warning you.
- Mort: I ain't afraid of ya. I'm gonna die. I know it. And you killed me Silas Jennings - just as you killed them that's buried over yonder. We're payin' for your sins - your's and your harlot's!
- Nasa Springer: Nobody is good or bad. People just do the things they've got to do, that's all. Something inside makes them.
- Nasa Springer: Oh, Moonglow, I'm going to love Chicago. It's so big! There'll be so much more chance for me to do things.
- Lawrence Crosby: You know what it made me think of?
- Nasa Springer: No, what?
- Lawrence Crosby: Trying to hitch Niagara Falls to a squirt gun.
- Nasa Springer: What languages do you speak?
- Jay Randall: English, naturally, and - I know a couple of risqué stories in French.
- Nasa Springer: I don't know what this is all about. I know it's a trick. But, don't you start anything if you don't want finished.
- Nasa Springer: [after Lawrence comes home very late - on their wedding night] Where have you been?
- Lawrence Crosby: Now, you're not going to pull that on me the very first night?
- Nasa Springer: No.
- Lawrence Crosby: I was playing poker.
- Nasa Springer: [knowingly] You've been drinking.
- Lawrence Crosby: I was thirsty.