- Anni Pavlovitch: I want you to marry her, and I want my love to haunt you...to make you lie awake at night, to burn your heart, to make you sick with pain! I want you to think of me and to ache for me. I want never to see you again!
- Alberto, the Waiter: ['Anne' can't decide which fork to use] Work it from the outside in, Signorina.
- Rudolph 'Rudi' Pal: In my opinion, most people prefer sardines to caviar because most people haven't tried caviar.
- Admiral Monti: Anne Vivaldi, that's it! It's been on the tip of my tongue all night.
- Contessa di Meina: How cozy.
- Rudolph 'Rudi' Pal: You don't dance like a debutante.
- Anni Pavlovitch: How do debutantes dance?
- Rudolph 'Rudi' Pal: With stiff knees.
- Contessa di Meina: What interesting knees you have, Admiral. Those are knees, aren't they?
- Admiral Monti: They were.
- Maddelena Monti: [to Rudi] I've known that look on your face ever since you drove my bike into a tree.
- Page Boy: [At the casino in Trieste: a young uniformed casino attendant carrying a platter brings Count Armalia his rather substantial roulette winnings in the form of large banknotes] Sir.
- Count Rudi Armalia: [the Count starts to count the bills] Do you save your money, young man?
- Page Boy: No sir.
- Count Rudi Armalia: Or support a sick mother?
- Page Boy: No sir.
- Count Rudi Armalia: Perhaps you're working your way through school?
- Page Boy: No sir.
- Count Rudi Armalia: You have no ambition of any kind?
- Page Boy: No sir.
- Count Rudi Armalia: Good. Here's an enormous tip for you. Squander it.
- [Hands the attendant a large banknote]
- Page Boy: Yes sir.