- Cinzia Zaccardi: [singing] Bing, bang, bong! Bing, bang, bong! Presto, presto, do your very best-o, Don't hang back like a shy little kid, You'll be so glad that you did what you did, If you do it with a bing, bang, bong!
- Tom Winters: [after punishing his son] Well, now, where were we?
- Cinzia Zaccardi: [She turns on the spray paint and sprays him in the face on purpose] Oops.
- Tom Winters: Thank you, Michelangelo. Thank you.
- Angelo Donatello: The Sons of Italy Ball. We'll tie one on together, huh? What do you say? You want to be the lucky girl this year?
- Cinzia Zaccardi: Mr. Donatello, you have a certain native charm. Please reserve it for the natives.
- Cinzia Zaccardi: I can make boiled eggs very well now, and cereal. I just pour in milk, and it goes crack, pop, and snap. It does all the work. Even I cannot spoil it.
- Capt. Alan Wilson: [to Cinzia in an evening dress] I love your new uniform. What do you wear on your day off? Eleanor, we're going to have to get rid of Sadie the Scrubber. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what i call a maid.
- [spanks Cinzia's behind]
- Cinzia Zaccardi: Uhh! There are those who require alcohol to give them courage. I'm not one of them.
- [throws a Martini in Alan's face]
- Cinzia Zaccardi: Is it dry enough?
- David Winters: Aunt Carolyn, you're from another planet.
- Carolyn Gibson: Thank you, dear. I think that's a compliment.
- Tom Winters: Well, you must have had a lot of experience raising children.
- Cinzia Zaccardi: No, I have no experience. But I know when a little child is unhappy. I know, and how I know, when a father is unreasonable. Try to be a parent, not a policeman.
- Tom Winters: I don't know what you know about parents. But I imagine you've had a wide acquaintance amongst policemen.
- [Cinzia slaps him]
- Tom Winters: I'll have to call one if you keep that up.
- Angelo Donatello: Welcome to historic Virginia. My card. You ever want anything moved
- [looks Cinzia up and down]
- Angelo Donatello: anything, call on Angelo.
- Tom Winters: How long is it since you had a bath?
- Cinzia Zaccardi: Che cosa?
- Tom Winters: A bath! You look as if you need a good scrubbing.
- Elizabeth Winters: Cinzia's getting melon and prosciutto. That's ham. You eat it cold and you don't have to cook it.
- Carolyn Gibson: Who's Cinzia?
- Elizabeth Winters: Cinzia's our maid. She doesn't know how to cook.
- Carolyn Gibson: So I see. Where's your father?
- Elizabeth Winters: Oh, he's doing the laundry for the weekend at the laundromat. We have to bring the clothes there because Cinzia doesn't know how to wash.
- Carolyn Gibson: Just what does she do?
- Elizabeth Winters: Oh, everything!
- Elizabeth Winters: Listen, about married people.
- Cinzia Zaccardi: What?
- Elizabeth Winters: Do they sleep in the same bed together?
- Cinzia Zaccardi: In America, sometimes. In Italy, always.
- Tom Winters: I'm delighted you're the belle of the ball, but may I have this next dance?
- Cinzia Zaccardi: Oh, yes.
- Tom Winters: My recollection is a little hazy, but I believe I'm the fellow who brought you.
- Cinzia Zaccardi: Oh, yes, you are the *stuffy* one.
- Robert Winters: We don't have no mother! She's dead!
- David Winters: Oh, shut up. You give me the creeps!
- Robert Winters: She's dead. Leave me alone. Our mother's dead!
- David Winters: [to Elizabeth] Come on, let's go down. We'll leave little Frankenstein here.
- Cinzia Zaccardi: Where is their mother?
- Tom Winters: What did you say?
- Cinzia Zaccardi: Their mother?
- Tom Winters: You are looking at her. I'm a little new at the job.
- Tom Winters: You'll get a spanking you'll never forget.
- Cinzia Zaccardi: Oh, yes. A *spanking* solves so many things. Or a slap in the face. It's so much easier than understanding.
- Cinzia Zaccardi: [singing] One step, two step, Step into a new step, Live your life with a zip and a zing, You'll have the world on the end of a string...
- Robert Winters: Anybody does anything to you again, just let me know, no matter who.
- Cinzia Zaccardi: Whom!
- Robert Winters: Who.
- Cinzia Zaccardi: Who.
- Robert Winters: Cinzia?
- Cinzia Zaccardi: What?
- Robert Winters: Darn, why do I have to be only 13 years old?
- Elizabeth Winters: Would it matter, I mean, if I slept with you?
- Cinzia Zaccardi: No, it would be all right. But not all the time.
- Elizabeth Winters: Why not? I don't take up much room.
- Cinzia Zaccardi: It has something to do with married people.
- Elizabeth Winters: I guess he likes you better than he likes me.
- Tom Winters: I think I should apologize for the behavior of the upper classes in America.
- Cinzia Zaccardi: They behave like the upper classes in Italy, also the lower classes.
- Tom Winters: There's nothing wrong with kerosene lamps. As a matter of fact, they're rather quaint.
- Tom Winters: [bumps into a chair]
- David Winters: But you can't see good with them.
- Tom Winters: Of course you can.
- Tom Winters: [bumps into a box]
- David Winters: I warned you.
- Cinzia Zaccardi: You see? When a fish comes, the bell rings and announces his arrival. Isn't it nice?
- Tom Winters: Very nice. But tell me, do you think if you attach one end to a dust rag, the fish might dust the furniture for you?
- Tom Winters: How are you and John getting along these days?
- Carolyn Gibson: Well, it's one of those modern marriages. Electric blankets and everything.
- Cinzia Zaccardi: Arrivederci, Roberto.
- Robert Winters: Roberto's me. It's Italian.
- Tom Winters: Is it really?
- Angelo Donatello: Did you make up your mind about the boat? Do you want to rent? Do you want to buy? Do you want to make a deal?
- Tom Winters: It's a leaky, broken-down soggy derelict that'll probably sink and dump us all in the river. But I wouldn't think of living any other place.
- Angelo Donatello: Right down the road is my old man's grocery store. And across the river is the country club. Of course, there's a better class of people at the grocery store, but that's up to you. It's a free country.
- Angelo Donatello: My brother once took a dame like that to the Sons of Italy Ball. Boom: he's married.
- Tom Winters: Oh, boom.
- Angelo Donatello: And ever since, he's been having sons of Italy all over the place. You know what I mean? Six kids, doctor bills, his wife getting fat and sloppy. I mean, who needs it?
- Carolyn Gibson: Hello. They've got quite a buffet tonight. Would you care to come over and watch me eat crow?
- Eleanor Wilson: I think you've had enough, Alan.
- Capt. Alan Wilson: Just one teeny-weeny Martini and then we all head for the country club. Right?
- Angelo Donatello: Hey, why don't you go inside? You know, you're driving me nuts.
- Cinzia Zaccardi: It's a free country.
- Robert Winters: You want to go fishing for eels?
- Cinzia Zaccardi: Oh, yes. I couldn't think of anything nicer, please.
- Angelo Donatello: I have a good business. I make a nice dollar. I own my own truck, you know. If I want to have a good time, I go out and have it. A blonde one night, a brunette the next, a redhead--mm! Smorgasbord, you know what I mean? You like a guy who speaks plain like this?
- Tom Winters: I know how you feel. But nothing ever stays exactly the same. Everything changes. Everybody has to leave. Everybody, sooner or later, and it's not so bad. Everything's different, but it's not so bad. You'll all be leaving me before long, and I have to get used to that. You can't remain children forever, no matter how much you want to.
- Elizabeth Winters: Oh, why do you talk so much?