- Ptomaine: [Commenting on a large-nosed Italian girl] Mack, I don't care what you say. I'm not going out with her!
- Mac Dougal - Chief Torpedo Man: Why, there's nothing wrong with her. She's got a mighty trim little hull.
- Ptomaine: But I can't see past her bowsprit!
- Mac Dougal - Chief Torpedo Man: Well, maybe she's built for speed?
- Lieut. 'Brick' Walters: [commenting on their new commanding officer] Boy, he acts like he wrote the book of regulations.
- Lieut. 'Speed' Nelson: No, but he lives up to it, and he'll see that you do too. Yes, sir, that's "Dead Pan" Toler. If he smiles, it's only a gas pain.
- Mac Dougal - Chief Torpedo Man: You hit a Limey and you hit a Marine all at the same time. What could be sweeter?
- Chief Engineer Hendrickson: Now that's what I call efficiency.
- Mac Dougal - Chief Torpedo Man: [Speaking to Italian girl with Ptomaine] Don't let that big nose fool you!
- Buck Teeth Sergeant: What's that lump on your face, Yank?
- Ptomaine: Bunker Hill. You want to climb it?
- Buck Teeth Sergeant: Well, I don't see no steps.
- Seaman Muller: [in response to Ptomaine belching loudly] You drinking orange extract already?
- Ptomaine: Are you casting insinuations and aspersions?
- Seaman Muller: It's mighty funny - every time you belch you smell like a wedding.
- Ptomaine: Swine... and I thought we were one happy family.
- Mac Dougal - Chief Torpedo Man: [sees Muller playing solitaire] Don't you know that ain't a full deck?
- Seaman Muller: Sure, only 49 cards.
- Mac Dougal - Chief Torpedo Man: Whaddya playin' for?
- Seaman Muller: I dunno - keeps my mind off sex.