- Pierre Grandfort: The honorable member has used every known clich except perhaps "curb your dog, keep your city clean."
- Legislator: Equal salary for female schoolteachers would bring disaster to our whole economy.
- Pierre Grandfort: Except to the economy of female schoolteachers.
- Otto Keller: I have abused your kindness. You who gave my wife and me a home - even friendship, so wonderful a thing for a refugee, a German, a man without a home.
- Ruth Grandfort: I love you, Michael. I've always been in love with you.
- Fr. Michael William Logan: I know.
- Ruth Grandfort: I know it's wrong. I can't help it.
- Ruth Grandfort: Do you want me to lie to you?
- Fr. Michael William Logan: No, I don't want you to lie to me. But I don't want you to lie to yourself.