- Phipps: [Opens package dropped by enemy plane] It's his helmet and goggles. It means a very gallant gentleman died this afternoon. And for what? What have all these deaths accomplished? So many fine chaps have died in this war and are going to die in future wars.
- [pause]
- Phipps: That's all, gentlemen.
- Capt. Courtney: [drunkenly] Gentlemen, keep the war going please. We're going to roll in a few gutters.
- Capt. Courtney: Man is a savage animal, who, periodically to relieve his nervous tension, tries to destroy himself.
- Phipps: [Whimsically after reading a letter from home] You know, Brand, it'd be awfully nice if we had a dog around here in the mornings to come in and cheer us up.
- Phipps: [Whistling and talking to an imagined dog] Here! Come on, fella! Come on here! Mind your muddy feet. Come on!
- Maj. Brand: [Brand has been deep in thought and only now realizes Phipps is talking] What you doing?
- Phipps: Uh, the dog.
- Maj. Brand: Dog? What dog? Where?
- Phipps: No, I say it would be nice if we had a dog to come in here in the mornings to sort of cheer us up, you know? And...
- [He mutters as he realizes Brand has not been listening to him]
- Phipps: [He kisses the letter] I thought it would be sort of cozy, you know.
- Maj. Brand: [Brand eventually realizes what Phipps has been saying and he smiles faintly]
- Capt. Courtney: Hooh, I did't understand a word, did you?
- Lt. 'Scotty' Scott: No, I took German in school but...
- Capt. Courtney: So did I, but I can't understand the way these foreigners speak it.
- Maj. Brand: [Brand approaches a sulking Courtney] To him!
- Capt. Courtney: [Courtney initially shows resentment but smiles when he realizes what he's drinking to] I'll drink to that. To Scott-O! Sleep tight.
- Capt. Courtney: [Asking Phipps to translate to the German POW] Ask him if he'll drink a toast to the dead.
- Lt. 'Scotty' Scott: [nursing a hangover] Court, have you ever seen mice on roller skates?
- Capt. Courtney: On bicycles, never on skates, old man.