- Harry Moulton Pulham: They say that you can get over anything in time. I don't believe you can... but given enough time you can put it where it belongs.
- Kay Motford Pulham: What were you and Ruth Quila talking about.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: About sex! I don't see why she has to talk about it at the dinner table.
- Kay Motford Pulham: Well, her husband's a psychologist.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: They're giving us five minutes to surrender. Any of the men that want to go over, they can; but, I think the right thing for me to do is to stay here with anyone else that wants to.
- Marine Sergeant: Listen, bums. Any of you guys got yellow-bellies can walk out now, right over to the Heinies. The Lieutenant says he likes it better here. Now, Lieutentant Pulham don't want to live forever. Come on, all cry babies, front and center.
- Soldier #1: Attaboy, Lieutenant!
- Soldier #2: Yeah! Who says Lieutenant Pulham wears lace drawers?
- Mr. Pulham Sr.: There are some things that I'd like to think are going to last for quite awhile - such as, common decency and civilization and human liberty. You know what I mean. Things we don't talk about, but, feel. You get it in a good book - in Scott and Thackeray and, in what I can understand of Shakespeare.
- Mr. Pulham Sr.: We like to think we're going to be remembered. We don't like to see everything we believe in changing.
- Mr. Pulham Sr.: Funny, isn't it. Nothing turns out the way you think it will.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: I wish you wouldn't say that, sir.
- Mr. Pulham Sr.: But, it's true. All the things you take for granted, there they are, and then they're gone.
- Walter Kaufman: Well, the basic idea is all right. But, the trouble is, there isn't any sex in it.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Sex?
- Walter Kaufman: You can't run a soap campaign without sex appeal. You get my idea, don't you, Miss Myles?
- Marvin Myles: I think I know what you mean.
- Walter Kaufman: Well, that's what we're here for! Now, I've watched Mrs. Kaufman with soap. It's intimate!
- Marvin Myles: [singing] We dance the whole night through, Just one more waltz with you, Seems to be made for us two, I could just keep right on dancing, Forever, dear, with you.
- Mr. Pulham Sr.: I know you're going to have a fine time. But, if you don't, be certain you don't let anyone know about it.
- Marvin Myles: Well, I can't stand any more on an empty stomach. Look that over will you. See you later, I suppose.
- [exits]
- Harry Moulton Pulham: What does she do?
- Bill King: Woman's copy.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: I never saw a girl do that before, that is, a nice girl.
- Bill King: Do what?
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Paint and powder herself in public.
- Bill King: This isn't public.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: No, I guess it isn't.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: In the 26 states east of the Mississippi River, there are 23,942 men's washrooms. 9,680 use liquid soap, 7,222 use powdered soap, 3,102 use old fashioned cake soap, and the rest don't use any soap.
- Bill King: Amazing. Absolutely amazing.
- Marvin Myles: I'll have a car of my own one day, with a chauffeur waiting outside when I work at night. And I'll have a mink coat and a French maid. And I'll invite you up for dinner. Be sure you wear a white tie; because, they'll be lots of interesting people - all the writers and artists and people on the stage. I'll be a partner in an agency by then. You see, I know I'm good.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Yes, I know you are.
- Marvin Myles: Will you come up?
- Harry Moulton Pulham: No, thanks. I'll just see that you get in all right.
- Marvin Myles: Strangely enough, I have my key.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Well, good night.
- Marvin Myles: Good night.
- [kisses Harry]
- Marvin Myles: Sir Galahad.
- Mary Pulham: I could talk to you about boys and you could talk to me about girls. Perhaps if we got drunk together we could say what we really thought.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: I don't see what you see in me.
- Marvin Myles: You wouldn't.
- [laughs]
- Marvin Myles: It's because I can do so much for you. That's what a girl really wants. It's going to be like a symphony. You're going to like all the things I like and I'm going to like all the things you do.
- Marvin Myles: I want you to want to marry me so much that you don't care about anything else. Anything! From now on I want us to have a good time. I want you always to be happy.
- Mrs. John Pulham: Harry tells me that you read Emerson.
- Marvin Myles: Why, yes.
- Mrs. John Pulham: It is so nice to be certain and not just hope that Harry knows nice girls - really nice girls in New York.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: [laying down on a sled] Get on and hold tight.
- Marvin Myles: Now, don't go speed like Ethan Frome. I want to live!
- Marvin Myles: There wouldn't be anybody who could see us if you kissed me - except the ghosts, in the back hall.
- Joe Bingham: What would anybody see in Bill King? Well, I know he's a friend of yours; but, frankly, I've always thought he's just a long drink of cold water.
- Marvin Myles: You've tried to get away from it too. That house where you can't hear any footsteps, the ticking clock, having to *sneak* highballs!
- Kay Motford Pulham: Wouldn't it be awful if we thought we loved each other, but, really didn't. What I really mean is, if we only got married, because, we thought we ought to.
- Kay Motford Pulham: Please kiss me.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Of course, dear.
- Kay Motford Pulham: Oh, Harry, it's only a little thing; but, could you just stop saying: of course?
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Why, yes, Kay - of course.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Like life, I suppose. You think everything's all right, all there solid, and, then, it suddenly comes to pieces in your hands.
- Kay Motford Pulham: I told you you shouldn't have had that highball after dinner.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: I kept saying to myself, "What is it all about?" What is it all about?
- Kay Motford Pulham: Well, what's what all about?
- Kay Motford Pulham: Harry, that's awfully silly. We've been married for 20 years! It's a little hard to be romantic, isn't it?
- Harry Moulton Pulham: It's like life, I suppose. Everything's all right and all there solid, and it suddenly comes to pieces in your hands.
- Kay Motford Pulham: I told you you shouldn't have had that highball after dinner. That's why you thrashed around all night. It always gives you indigestion.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: I didn't have indigestion. It was my class biography. I kept thinking about my life.
- Kay Motford Pulham: Why, Harry!
- Harry Moulton Pulham: I went over all of it. All of this. When the children were born, and when you and I met at dancing school. It was all there. It was like adding up a balance sheet. It almost made me frightened.
- Kay Motford Pulham: Frightened?
- Harry Moulton Pulham: I kept saying to myself: What is it all about? What is it all about?
- Kay Motford Pulham: Well, what's what all about?
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Kay, let's get away from all this. Can't we? Just you and I alone together.
- Kay Motford Pulham: Why, Harry, that's awfully silly. We've been married for 20 years. It's a little hard to be romantic, isn't it?
- Harry Moulton Pulham: If we just packed a bag and took the car and went someplace, any place, and never mind about all the rest of it.
- Kay Motford Pulham: Well, darling, I never heard you say anything like this before.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Well, it's all around me like a wave. I just want to know that you're there too. It's like reaching for you in the dark. Kay, if I got the car... .
- Kay Motford Pulham: Harry, you act as though I haven't been a good wife to you. Now you can ask anybody... .
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Kay, have you ever really loved me?
- Kay Motford Pulham: Why, of course I have. I love you now. I love our life. It's what we both were made for.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Yes, I know. Have we ever really loved each other? Have we ever been happy?
- Kay Motford Pulham: Of course we have, for years and years.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Well, then why can't we ever see each other?
- Kay Motford Pulham: Well, do you think we'd be able to see each other any better if we went off somewhere in a car?
- Harry Moulton Pulham: We wouldn't have to talk about dishes. Suppose I get the car right now.
- Kay Motford Pulham: Oh, Harry, not right now. Some other time. I have to start paying the bills, and I have luncheon engagements today and tomorrow, and I'm going to judge the flower arrangement competition at the garden club this afternoon.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Kay, if I ask you - please - if I say how much it will mean to me... .
- Kay Motford Pulham: I certainly won't. If you brought that car to the door, you'd be ashamed of yourself.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Not even if I ask you?
- Kay Motford Pulham: Oh, Harry, please. I'm much too busy to run away into nowhere. Look.
- Harry Moulton Pulham: Well, all right.