- Vitrey, The Mayor: Th... they talk about me in the village? What do they say?
- Mother Superior: I never listen to slander.
- Major Krupp: [laughing] You are a fool, Vitrey, to try and match wits with reverend mother.
- Sister Clothilde aka Louise Dupree: I feel lost.
- John: You shouldn't. God is everywhere. And everything outside the convent isn't ugly and frightening and sinful. And marriage must be right or it wouldn't be a sacrament of the Church. I took vows too, you know, and kept them. Marriage can be the most, well the most beautiful thing in the world. It's like finding your other self, and once you've found her you're only half a person without her.
- Gaston, the Waiter: They're all the same, those Nazis. They try to act like conquerors. They know they have conquered nothing. They are lonely, homesick and hated.
- Vitrey, The Mayor: As mayor of the village, it is also very distressing for me.
- Major Krupp: No, Vitrey, for you as mayor, it is unhealthy.
- Mother Superior: After the last war, I thought I was through with the Germans.
- Major Krupp: One is never through with the Germans.
- Mother Superior: That is what our gardener says about the blight that attacks our roses, but we must struggle against it just the same.