- Terry McKay: My father used to say, "It's a funny thing, but the things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening."
- Terry McKay: What are you trying to say, Michel?
- Michel: I'm trying to say that it would take me six months to find out if I'm worthy to say what's in my heart.
- Terry McKay: Oh, that's just about the nicest thing...
- Terry McKay: It's not that I'm prudish but my mother told me never to be in a man's room in any month ending in 'r'!
- Terry McKay: How's your fiancee?
- Michel: She's got a cold.
- Terry McKay: Oh, that's too bad. Got it at Lake Como?
- Michel: No, she wasn't there.
- Terry McKay: Uhh... , Uh, you mean the Lady of the Lake was not...
- Michel: [Shakes head] That was her best friend.
- Terry McKay: Oh.
- Michel: [Another shake, and grimace]
- Terry McKay: Chummy bunch.
- Terry McKay: Have you been getting results with a line like that? Or, would I be surprised.
- Michel: If you were surprised, that would surprise me!
- Michel: You have an honest face.
- Terry McKay: Oh?
- Michel: I can trust you, can't I?
- Terry McKay: Yes, I guess so.
- Michel: Come with me.
- Terry McKay: But, look, the captain has an honest face too, and... .
- Terry McKay: My father used to say, "wishes are the dreams we dream when we're awake."
- Michel: Your father said that?
- Terry McKay: He drank a lot.
- Terry McKay: Well, that just about brings us up-to-date. Now my life's an open book.
- Michel: It's only one page.
- Michel: Hundred and second floor, top of the Empire State Building?
- Terry McKay: Yes. That's it right there. It's the tallest building in the world - you can't miss that. It's the nearest thing to heaven we have in New York. Be sure you take the elevator. Well, until we meet again.
- Michel: I must talk to someone.
- Terry McKay: Well, I'm really not very good about that sort of thing. I talk a lot. I try to break myself of the habit.
- Grandmother: This is a far as I can go. This is the boundary of my small world.
- Terry McKay: It's a perfect world. Thank you for letting me trespass.
- Michel: I'm in trouble - serious trouble.
- Terry McKay: I could have told you - playing around Lake Como, the poor thing.
- Terry McKay: Being seen with you is ruins, and I don't wanna get my picture in the paper. So we'd better spread out.
- Michel: You saved my life, you know. I was bored to tears! I haven't seen one attractive girl on this boat since we left. Can you imagine? Nine days like that? No, this is terrible. That's not for me! I should be bright, I should be beautiful and bubbling like pink champagne. I got scared. I said to myself, "Don't beautiful women travel any more?" Evidently not. Then I saw you and it was all right. I was saved. I hope. Cigarette?
- Terry McKay: I went to New York and got a job singing in a nightclub from ten to three in the morning, and then the manager used to chase me around his office until about four, and then I went home.
- [first lines]
- radio news announcers: [American announcer] Flash! Michel Marnay, the French heart crusher, sailed incog. tonight from Naples on board the Napoli. Why? Because Lois Clarke and her twenty million smackers will be at the dock palpatating for him. And it's good news for us mere men, because when he arrives, Michel Marnay goes out of circulation. This time, it's marriage.
- [French announcer - undecipherable]
- radio news announcers: [British announcer] Well here we are ladies and gentlemen... and a nice crisp little tidbit has just come in. Oh by the way I might mention I'm speaking from dear old London as usual. Well it's rumored that Michel Marnay sails for America tonight to enter into matrimony at last with one of America's industrial nobility: a miss um, a miss uh, Lois Clarke - the rock and gravel heir, it's-a stone and sand you know.
- [briefly looks over news update paper]
- radio news announcers: Hmm, well that seems to be all. Goodnight.
- Michel: [in Terry's cabin, sees a photo of her fiancé] Where is he now?
- Terry McKay: Well, he's visiting his parents. He sends me on a buying trip every once in awhile. You see, he's my boss too.
- [plays with her pearls]
- Terry McKay: Instead of Mother Goose, you were probably brought up on the memoirs of Casanova.
- Michel: Not at all.
- Terry McKay: [sucks on the straw in her cocktail] But you've heard of the little fella, haven't you? I imagine you've known quite a few women, haven't you? Or maybe "few" is the wrong word. And I gather you haven't very much respect for them?
- [Michel shakes his head no]
- Terry McKay: I've never seen such lovely colors. Everything's so vivid.
- Michel: Yes.
- Terry McKay: Even the green seems greener.
- Boy on Ship: Everybody on the ship's talking about ya.
- Terry McKay: No. What do they say about me?
- Boy on Ship: Well, I don't know. Every time they start talking about you, they make me leave the room.
- Terry McKay: You have a lovely place here.
- Grandmother: Thank you.
- Terry McKay: I'd like to stay on for ever.
- Grandmother: You are too young for that. It's a good place to sit and remember, but you still have to create your memories.
- Grandmother: Believe me, my dear, there is nothing wrong with Michel that a good woman could not make right.
- Grandmother: I'm sorry, I had to let my maid go. I have to watch my expenses. You see, I planned on dying when I was 75, and here I am 77. So, if I am not going to die, I have to start saving my money.
- Terry McKay: He's going to be married and settle down. Can't you just see him with his slippers and his pipe?
- Grandmother: No. There is many a slip betwixt the lip and the water and anything could happen on a boat.
- Terry's Landlady: I joke a lot about marriage, but it can be a beautiful thing. You know, you should get married if you find the right man, of course. I don't know where you will find him, of course, but don't you marry a loafer like I did. It's just as easy to marry a man with lots of money. Maybe you don't love him at first, but you can teach yourself in six easy lessons. Just don't you marry a loafer. I married one, he was a prize winner.
- Terry McKay: I guess you and I have been more or less used to a life of pink champagne. Maybe it'd be a little difficult to...
- Michel: Hmm?
- Terry McKay: You like beer?
- Michel: Yes, I do, but...
- Terry McKay: I know, it's bad for the figure.
- Terry McKay: [singing] Remember love is not an easy game, No two hearts ever beat quite the same, Go on and dance, my heart, This is romance, my heart, So keep pretending, Do not despair, my heart, We still may share, my heart, That happy ending...
- Terry McKay: I like them.
- Orphanage Superintendent: I do, too. But they don't like me. They call me Picklepuss. At heart, they're just little savages. But music, you know, has charms to soothe the savage breast.
- Kenneth Bradley: I'm going to ask you once more, why don't you let me help you?
- Terry McKay: And I'm going to tell you once more, if I let you finance my getting well, he wouldn't like it. And if he wouldn't like it, then I wouldn't like it. And if you did get me well and I went to him, you wouldn't like it.
- Kenneth Bradley: Then, certainly, he ought to know.
- Terry McKay: No, because if he found out, he'd want to do something about it. Then if I didn't get well, well, he wouldn't like it, and I wouldn't like it, you wouldn't like it. It would be awful! No.
- Michel: Where shall we go from here?
- Lois Clarke: Why, Michael, that's up to you - after all, this is your evening.
- Michel: No. No, a broken heart is not for me. Life is what you make it. From now on, I'm taking my fun where I find it.
- Michel: And then what did you say to yourself?
- Terry McKay: Well, then I said, "Why don't you go home and get tight?"
- Michel: You didn't do that.
- Terry McKay: Didn't I?
- Michel: Maybe you took a little one every hour for about a month.
- Terry McKay: Well, can you blame me?
- Terry McKay: The other one shouldn't ask questions. Asking questions is - life must be bright. We must keep it beautiful and bubbling like pink champagne. So there'll be no questions asked. I hope.
- Terry McKay: I've got my job now and I'm on a budget and if everything works out all right and I'm a good little girl, maybe I'll get what I want next Christmas.
- Michel: I thought everything was fine until I saw you last night. Then I knew there must be something between us. Even if only an ocean.