- Ray Schmidt: There isn't one woman in a million who's found happiness in the back streets of any man's life.
- Freda Schmidt: Aw shucks, Mom, do I have to go to bed so early? Say, Mama, Katy Schabacker says you can make a man marry you if you...
- [Mama slaps Freda's face]
- Mrs. Adolph Schmidt: If Ray Schmidt were my daughter, she wouldn't be runnin' the streets at night, like some flibbertigibbet.
- Mrs. Adolph Schmidt: Girls of today have no joy in the simple pleasures of home. This younger generation is going to the dogs.
- Adolph Schmidt - Ray's Father: Ever since I can remember, the younger generation has been going to the dogs, yet, somehow it always manages to come out on top. I guess it will be always like that.
- Walter D. Saxel: What's your name?
- Ray Schmidt: Ray.
- Walter D. Saxel: Gee, I'm glad.
- Ray Schmidt: You're glad? Why?
- Walter D. Saxel: Because I think a name should always suit a person and your's is perfect. Ray: ray of sunshine, ray of delight, ray of my heart.
- Walter D. Saxel: This is the most perfect day I've ever known.
- Ray Schmidt: Why, you're crazy. It's hot and sultry and its been threatening rain all day.
- Walter D. Saxel: You're crazy yourself. The sky is clear as crystal, the air is like wine, God's in his heaven, and you're on earth.
- Ray Schmidt: Say, you'll have me blushing in a minute.
- Walter D. Saxel: You're blushing now. It's most becoming.
- Walter D. Saxel: I don't think I caught your name.
- Ray Schmidt: Does it matter?
- Walter D. Saxel: Not a darn bit.
- Ray Schmidt: What have you been doing with yourself, Walter?
- Walter D. Saxel: Oh, lots of things. I'm in line for junior partnership at Friedlander Kunz Bankers.
- Ray Schmidt: Oh, tremendous.
- Walter D. Saxel: And I've given birth to two children.
- Ray Schmidt: Well, aren't you clever.
- Walter D. Saxel: And you, what have you been doing?
- Ray Schmidt: Well, I'm not exactly in line for junior partnership; but, I am about the highest paid woman in my firm.
- Walter D. Saxel: Swell!
- Freda Schmidt: Ray, I've got to talk to you now.
- Ray Schmidt: About what?
- Freda Schmidt: Hugo is leaving town.
- Ray Schmidt: Well, what of it?
- Freda Schmidt: Oh, Ray. We've got to stop him. He's got to stay here and...
- Ray Schmidt: Freda!
- Freda Schmidt: Oh, don't Ray. If Mama were to find out anything, she'd... Oh, Ray, you've gotta do something.
- Walter D. Saxel: Your memory has followed me day and night like a shadow. I finally tore you out of my mind - and now you've come back to torture me.
- Ray Schmidt: Oh, Walter, darling. What can I say? What can I do?
- Ray Schmidt: Walter, I'm awfully sorry I can't ask you up. But, "gentlemen and dogs" are not allowed.
- Walter D. Saxel: I see.
- Ray Schmidt: I have a landlady with all the instincts of a bloodhound.
- Walter D. Saxel: You're adorable, Ray. When I hold you in my arms like this, nothing ever seems to matter. You're like a drug to me.
- Ray Schmidt: What can a man like that do for you? Can he take you out any place? Can he be seen with you in public? Introduce you to his friends? No. All he can do is tuck you away some place in a side street and let you wait. Wait for the telephone to ring. Wait for unsigned postal cards and typewritten letters.
- Ray Schmidt: There's something we've got to have out with each other. It's been fiendish at times, Walter. I gave up my job so I could be free when you were here. Well, that was all right. But, what have I got? Solitaire. Waiting for the telephone to ring. Waiting for you to - come. Dying when you don't. I can't meet your friends. I can't make any of my own. You don't know how empty my life is.
- Walter D. Saxel: Ray, darling, empty? When you have me?
- Ray Schmidt: That's just the point, darling. I don't always have you. I didn't have you this summer. You're going to be a busier man as the days go by. And there'll be other trips where Ray can't go along. I can't go on, Walter, waiting, hoping, empty handed. Walter, give me a child.
- Walter D. Saxel: If you wanted to make me suffer, you've succeeded. It's been terrible. I never knew I could need any human being as I've needed you. I've no right to ask anything of you over me. I'm a cad, if you like. I can't offer you any of the things you are about to enjoy: home, respectability, children. I only know one thing, I need you. I love you. Come back to me, Ray.
- Ray Schmidt: Take my advice, get out of it before it's too late. Find some nice boy, marry him, settle down, have kiddies. That's the only way to be happy. I know what I'm talking about.
- Walter D. Saxel: Don't you start an argument either. I'm in no mood to be trifled with.
- Ray Schmidt: [giggles] You wouldn't strike a lady, would you, Mr. Saxel?
- Walter D. Saxel: Wouldn't I though.
- [long kiss]
- Ray Schmidt: Paris always brings out the beast in you.
- Richard Saxel - Walter's Son: I don't think we need an introduction, Mrs. Schmidt. I have known about you for years. You've followed my father and all of us like a loathsome shadow.
- Walter D. Saxel: I adore this place. It's only a hotel suite, but, you do something to it.
- Ray Schmidt: The magical touch of a woman's hands, makes even the darkest corner seem grand.
- Ray Schmidt: I wonder, Walter, what would have happened if I'd met your mother that day in Eden Park?
- Mrs. Dole: Oh, dear.
- [picks up a photograph of Walter]
- Mrs. Dole: Is *this* your husband?
- Ray Schmidt: Why, yes.
- Mrs. Dole: My, but he's good looking. Oh, dear, he's so dark.