- Austrian Secret Service Chief: It is now my duty to point out to you that the profession of a spy is the most ignoble calling on earth, lower than anything you have have ever experienced. And it is dangerous, of course.
- Marie Kolverer: I've had an inglorious life. It may become my good fortune to have a glorious death.
- Young Lieutenant - Firing Squad: I will not kill a woman! I will not kill any more men either! Do you call this war? I call it butchery! You call this serving your country? You call this patriotism? I call it murder!
- Woman in Crowd: [a crowd is watching the removal of a suicide's body] I wonder why she did it. She seemed so full of fun.
- Hotel Manager: Ah, they all end up that way.
- Marie Kolverer: No, they don't.
- Hotel Manager: Ah, you're gonna go the same way.
- Marie Kolverer: No, I'm not. I'm not afraid of life. Although I'm not afraid of death either.
- Marie Kolverer: Shall I drop in another coin?
- Austrian Secret Service Chief: Do I sound like a pianola?
- Marie Kolverer: Almost.
- Austrian Secret Service Chief: I suppose you're a great musician.
- Marie Kolverer: No, but I do know something about music.
- Austrian Secret Service Chief: Would you like to make some easy money?
- Marie Kolverer: Is there any such thing?
- Austrian Secret Service Chief: [to Marie after she's turned him over to the police as a spy] Austria may not care what happens to you, but you certainly do care what happens to Austria.
- Young Lieutenant - Firing Squad: Quite a walk, isn't it?
- Marie Kolverer: I don't mind walking.
- Young Lieutenant - Firing Squad: I must tell you, I could walk with you forever.
- Austrian Secret Service Chief: There are times in my work when a man's brain cannot accomplish as much as a woman's charm, as you demonstrated last night. Ha! You completely fooled me, had me arrested. You're a clever woman and a very loyal one.
- Marie Kolverer: So you wish me to become a spy.
- Austrian Secret Service Chief: You dislike the word "spy"?
- Marie Kolverer: Perhaps I haven't the right to object to any word.
- Austrian Secret Service Chief: You haven't. Sit down.
- Marie Kolverer: I suppose you are too exhausted playing with balloons to stand up.
- Colonel Kranau: Certainly I'll stand up, if you'll hand me my crutches.
- Colonel von Hindau: I suppose you've also had the house surrounded.
- Marie Kolverer: Yes. I'm sorry. It's my job.
- Colonel von Hindau: What a charming evening we might have had... if you hadn't been a spy, and I a traitor.
- Marie Kolverer: Then we might never have met.
- Colonel von Hindau: I don't know to whom I would rather surrender. My compliments. I'll wait for your men in the library.
- Colonel Kranau: [buying a nosegay] You know, most people think of death as a very ugly old man.
- Flower seller: Thank you, sir.
- Colonel Kranau: I think of death as a beautiful young woman wearing flowers.
- Marie Kolverer: [smelling the flowers] Roses?
- Colonel Kranau: Well, she might be wearing roses. Have a cigarette?
- Marie Kolverer: What makes you think of death?
- Colonel Kranau: Was I thinking of death?
- Marie Kolverer: I'm glad you escaped. Your untimely death might have disturbed my conscience.
- Colonel Kranau: Nonsense. It's all in the game. Had I caught you in my country, I'd have had you shot without hesitation. But we're both alive yet. And you can make my last few hours in Vienna very pleasant.
- Marie Kolverer: Are you going to leave Vienna so soon?
- Colonel Kranau: I'm afraid I'll have to, or give up my, uh, profession. It's become too dangerous.
- Marie Kolverer: [she aims a pistol at him] Perhaps I can persuade you to stay.
- Colonel Kranau: I really don't need persuasion.
- [she tries to call for backup and discovers he cut the phone line]
- Colonel Kranau: You're not going to turn me over because of a kiss. And now, are you going to shoot me yourself?
- Marie Kolverer: Yes, if you leave me no other choice.
- Colonel Kranau: Your conscience, apparently, is not going to be disturbed this time.
- Marie Kolverer: Stay where you are!
- Colonel Kranau: Better shoot quickly, of I'll take that plaything away from you.
- Marie Kolverer: Stay where you are.
- [she tries to shoot him]
- Colonel Kranau: I think I removed the cartridges.
- Colonel Kranau: Do you like this masquerade as much as my last one?
- Marie Kolverer: You're still a clown.
- Colonel Kranau: I'm a colonel in the Russian Army, and when necessary I fly across the line and play the clown, or the Austrian officer. I'm a soldier, but you bring something into war that doesn't belong in it. You trick men into death with your body.
- Marie Kolverer: Give me a kiss.
- Colonel Kranau: You're a cheat and a liar.
- Marie Kolverer: Why don't you stay here? Perhaps I don't always cheat and lie.
- Colonel Kranau: If you kept me here another minute, I'd not only be in danger of losing my life, but of falling in love with you, you devil.
- Colonel Kovrin: Come down here. Did anyone ever tell you how pretty you are? Come here. Fresh from the country, aren't you?
- Marie Kolverer: [he pinches her] Oh!
- Colonel Kovrin: Do they work you very hard in this magnificent establishment? You going to be off duty pretty soon? You're not going to see some young lieutenant tonight, are you? A captain? A major, perhaps? Then we'll start with a colonel. What's the matter, you want a general?
- Colonel Kranau: Everybody makes mistakes, and you carry a cat.
- Marie Kolverer: It has brought me good luck so far.
- Colonel Kranau: Do you call this good luck?
- Marie Kolverer: I don't know yet. Besides, I'm not allowed to love anything else.
- Colonel Kranau: I like your masquerade.
- Colonel Kranau: Hmm, music. Did you write this?
- Marie Kolverer: Yes.
- Colonel Kranau: Your own composition, huh?
- Marie Kolverer: I don't use invisible ink.
- Colonel Kranau: What do you call this masterpiece?
- Marie Kolverer: I haven't named it yet.
- Colonel Kranau: May I suggest you call it "The Dance of the Russian Colonel"?
- Colonel Kranau: I think I'm falling madly in love with you. The more you cheat and the more you lie, the more exciting you become, X-27.
- Marie Kolverer: I wish this night could last forever. It will be dawn soon.
- Colonel Kranau: I don't understand why a woman like you should choose a road that leads to such a death.
- Marie Kolverer: It's not a bad death to die for my country. It's better than gas or the river.
- Colonel Kranau: What has gas or the river to do with you?
- Marie Kolverer: Nothing... now.
- Marie Kolverer: You don't remember me, do you?
- Colonel Kranau: I've never seen you before.
- Marie Kolverer: You have a very faulty memory for a spy.
- Marie Kolverer: You still don't seem to remember me.
- Colonel Kranau: It may be very good for you that I don't choose to remember you.
- Marie Kolverer: Oh I don't know. This gun... is loaded.
- Colonel Kranau: What is it you want?
- Marie Kolverer: I have ten minutes in which to make you talk.
- Colonel Kranau: You're wasting your time and mine.
- Marie Kolverer: What would you rather do than talk?
- Colonel Kranau: If you don't mind, I'd rather be up in the air, flying.
- Colonel Kranau: If it weren't going to be more exciting out there, I'd be tempted to stay with you. Hope you're on my side, next war.
- Court-Martial Officer: Before you hear the sentence, I want to ask if you have anything to say.
- Marie Kolverer: No, I have nothing to say.
- Court-Martial Officer: Well, then, as a matter of record, I'd like you to tell me why a woman charged with important work should permit or aid the escape of a dangerous enemy, why she should dishonor the service, violate duty because of a casual affection for that man.
- Marie Kolverer: Perhaps I loved him.
- Court-Martial Officer: You can't make me believe you can love a man you've known but for a few hours. That's the sort of love that can be bought on the streets.
- Austrian Secret Service Chief: I found her on the street.
- Court-Martial Officer: You were given a chance to redeem your unfortunate life in the service of your country. Can you advance a single reason why you've failed to take advantage of that privilege?
- Marie Kolverer: I suppose I'm not much good, that's all.
- Monk: Can I help you, daughter?
- Marie Kolverer: I'm going to face this journey too, alone.
- Monk: Then you have no fear of this death?
- Marie Kolverer: It's only another exciting adventure. The perfect end to an imperfect life. How much more time have i?
- Monk: About ten hours.
- Marie Kolverer: Could you possibly help me to die in a uniform of my own choosing?
- Monk: What would you call a uniform of your own choosing?
- Marie Kolverer: Any dress I wore when I served my countrymen instead of my country.
- Monk: I will send for your clothes. Anything else?
- Marie Kolverer: Yes, a piano. One that's in tune.
- Monk: I will see what can be done.
- Marie Kolverer: Is it time?
- Young Lieutenant - Firing Squad: Will you please follow me?
- Marie Kolverer: Are we going to walk together again? Do you happen to have a looking glass?
- Young Lieutenant - Firing Squad: [he draws his sword] Will this do?