- Gen. Kaimura: There is a fragile but durable beauty in you, Madam. Great Wall, yes, I see it each time I - I look at you, durable, lasting, as though you, like the Great Wall, have lived for centuries and will live on for centuries more. But it will not be so. The Great Wall shall crumble into dust! And from the dust will arise a new China.
- Kwan Mei: General!
- Gen. Kaimura: I will hold Asia and half the world in my hand like a bunch of grapes - to be ripened by the sun of heaven!
- Hans Gruber: You Japanese are wonderful marksmen.
- Lt. Shimoto: That was a Japanese plane which came down.
- Lt. Shimoto: Cleverness does not seem to be your only virtue. This is not a coolie hand.
- Kwan Mei: The Lieutenant is right. I am not a coolie.
- Lt. Shimoto: Now if you were only of noble birth, you see, my dear, General Kaimura likes the companionship of intelligent women, especially cultured women. Have you been here long?
- Kwan Mei: Not long.
- Lt. Shimoto: Well, a little scrubbing around the neck and, uh, ear, and even a General might see possibilities.
- Hans Gruber: Why are you not practicing with your voice? I want you should sing the best when the General comes.
- Lavara: Who do you think I am, Madam Butterfly?
- [repeated line]
- Lu-Chi: The plan of our kind Japanese master is for a greater, cooperative East Asia.
- Gen. Kaimura: What about my - companion?
- Lt. Shimoto: Well, there's a Mongolian girl.
- Gen. Kaimura: No good! She's empty. No culture!
- Kwan Mei: They're all right. Don't you worry.
- Pat O'Rourke: Okay, if you say so, Lotus Blossom.
- Kwan Mei: Lotus Blossom? That's a very pretty name.
- Pat O'Rourke: Yeah. Yeah, I had a girl in Brooklyn I called Lotus Blossom. Her real name was Maeve O'Houlihan. Yeah, I called her Lotus Blossom on account that she liked Chop Suey.
- Lavara: Champagne! I haven't had champagne in months!
- Gen. Kaimura: There is much more in office. Perhaps later we will go up there and drink all you want.
- Lavara: I'm kind of thirsty.
- Pat O'Rourke: Gee, I wish the boys back in Brooklyn could see me now.
- Kwan Mei: Brooklyn?
- Pat O'Rourke: Yeah, in the home of the Dodgers.
- Kwan Mei: Dodgers? What are they? What do they do?
- Pat O'Rourke: Do? They play baseball. You know, that's one of President Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. Gee, I can see it now. It's in the ninth inning, see, and the scores all tied up...
- Lt. Shimoto: You forget, madam, I took you out of the rice field, and I can send you back to the rice field - or have you shot.
- Gen. Kaimura: Lieutenant, release the young coolie. Release all the young coolies. Except, that tall one. Tall men are stupid. Shoot him.
- Rodney Carr: [General Kaimura draws his gun] Remember Pearl Harbor, General. Wait till I turn my back.
- Kwan Mei: Is my left hand not to know what my right hand is doing? You, General, are now my right hand, and I must know and understand both hands.
- Gen. Kaimura: If only every Chinese were like you, Madam. Chungking could well take a lesson from you.
- Kwan Mei: I have important information for you. Oh, I see doubt in all your faces. I see the thought in your eyes - that I am a traitor. Somehow I cannot blame you. I saw Mochow's father die, murdered, and I saw the fathers of two more comrades, shot. Though I did not show the pain in my face, it was in my heart. Truly, I live at the hotel. I wear lovely clothes, but there is a reason. It was the only way to find out the plan of that - butcher.
- Gen. Kaimura: Madam, I am overwhelmed. Oh, Lieutenant, may I present the Lady from Chungking, Madam Kwan Mei.
- Hans Gruber: Oh, it's you. What are you doing here so late at night?
- Lavara: I just wanted to talk to you Hansy.
- Hans Gruber: To me? What for?
- Lavara: Oh, don't worry. It's not about moonlight and roses.
- Gen. Kaimura: Japanese planes!
- Kwan Mei: No, Flying Tigers.
- Gen. Kaimura: Let them come. They will be culled from the skies like dead flies.
- [last lines]
- Kwan Mei: You cannot kill me. You cannot kill China. Not even a million deaths could crush the soul of China, for the soul of China will be eternal. When I die, a million will take my place, and nothing can stop them, neither hunger, nor torture, nor the firing squad. We shall live on until the enemy is driven back over scorched land and hurled into the sea. That time will come soon, for the armies of decency and liberty are on the march. China's destiny is victory. It will live because human freedom will not perish. Out of the ashes of ruin and old hatreds, the force of peace will prevail until the world is again sane and beautiful.
- Rodney Carr: Look, kid, let's cut out this chatter. You stack up all right to me.
- Lavara: What's the gag?
- Rodney Carr: No gag. You know, something about you reminds me...
- Lavara: Uh-oh, here it comes.