- Diane: I'm not used to being happy... it's funny... it hurts!
- Title Card: For those who will climb it, there is a ladder leading from the depths to the heights - from the sewer to the stars - the ladder of Courage.
- Chico: Not bad, eh? I work in the sewer - but I live near the stars!
- Chico: You mustn't be afraid. I'm never afraid. Never look down - Always look up. I always look up. That's why I'm a very remarkable fellow!
- Chico: Don't you want to marry me?
- Diane: But you never said... you love me. Couldn't you say it - just once?
- Chico: I can't say it! It's too silly.
- [walks around the room]
- Chico: Well, this way then... Chico - Diane - Heaven!
- Diane: Say it again! Say it again!
- Boul: Run, fools! No army in the world can beat the taxi drivers of Paris!
- Chico: It's wonderful the things I feel... sometimes I could reach out and touch a star!
- Chico: Make a tour of the boulevards - then home. Tonight I am the Bank of France!
- German Soldier: They're on our heels! The whole French army - in taxicabs!
- Chico: That's why I'm an atheist-God owes me ten francs!
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