- Maximilian: [to Jo-Ann] You have sharp nails like a little animal. Maybe that's what I like about you.
- Maximilian: [when called on an elaborate lie] Good heavens, do I have to apologize for superior imagination?
- Maximilian: Look, young man, I know certain things almost psychically, and what I don't know, I'm intelligent enough to guess.
- Joe Adams: Okay, so you're smart, I'm dumb. *That* oughta' make you happy!
- Maximilian: Very odd, my friend: I always thought that persons who do common, manual work were not so subject to nervous tension.
- Maximilian: You know, I always find it rather amusing, these conceptions you simple men have concerning women. But the lovely creatures, they're so much more complicated, thank heaven.