- Eloise Y. 'Honey Bear' Kelly: This is no Sir Galahad who loves from afar. This is a two-legged boa constrictor.
- Eloise Y. 'Honey Bear' Kelly: The only lions I ever want to see again are the two in front of the public library.
- Eloise Kelly: [to Linda Nordley] Remember, I came here to be your friend. For your sake. And I'm keeping the offer open... It'll be rugged, but I'll keep it open.
- Victor Marswell: Sometimes it
- [alcohol]
- Victor Marswell: gets you nasty enough to get a nasty job done.
- Eloise Y. 'Honey Bear' Kelly: You and nobody else is gonna wring me out and hang me up to dry again.
- Eloise Kelly: Well anyway, they both blew up in a million pieces somewhere over Berlin. But you know, Brownie, as short as it lasted, it was like being blessed for a lifetime.
- John Brown-Pryce: So you hit the high spots and the gay beaches, trying to forget again.
- Eloise Kelly: Yeah. Great strength of character.
- Linda Nordley: Doesn't a woman's reputation count for anything here?
- Victor Marswell: Only if I'm pesonally interested.
- Linda Nordley: Have you ever been married, Mr. Marswell?
- Victor Marswell: No, I've never had the good fortune of finding a lady who was interested.
- Linda Nordley: That could be the remark of a cynical man.
- Victor Marswell: What have I to be cynical about? I make my contribution to this mixed-up community they call the world. What else is there?
- Linda Nordley: That could be the remark of a lonely man.
- Victor Marswell: Could be.
- Victor Marswell: [Her husband has taken ill] I'm sorry, Mrs. Nordley. Out here we have three antidotes for everything. Quinine, iodine, and castor oil. Quinine should fix him up very nicely. I don't think he needs any of the other two, do you?
- Linda Nordley: At certain times, jokes are in very poor taste, Mr. Marswell.
- Victor Marswell: Oh, come on, Mrs. Nordley. No reason to lose your temper.
- Victor Marswell: Kelly, why don't you come along? You might find gorillas interesting.
- Eloise Kelly: [scornfully] Gorillas! A month ago I was buying a bra at Macy's, and now I'm studying gorillas yet. No, thank you. I'll stick around and help Muntaba cook.
- Eloise Kelly: [Muntaba rattles off some words in his native dialect] What'd he say?
- Victor Marswell: Well, he says you, uh... can't even cook!
- Donald Nordley: Tell me something about yourself. To begin with, if I'm not too beastly inquisitive, Linda and I have always wondered why an attractive chap like you has never got himself a wife?
- Victor Marswell: [hesitating before answering] I've been too busy collecting animals.