- Penelope "Penny" Carrol: Listen. No one could teach you to dance in a million years. Take my advice and save your money!
- Mabel Anderson: I used to go there in the summer as a kid. You know, before the war.
- Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: Which war?
- Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: Lucky, please don't feel bad. You still got me. Course I ain't a young and pretty girl. I ain't even a girl, but I'll stick. I'll never leave you.
- Mabel Anderson: [after having just been hit in the face with a snowball] You know, snow tastes just as bad as water.
- Mabel Anderson: Beautiful, isn't it?
- Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: What is?
- Mabel Anderson: The music.
- Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: What music?
- Mabel Anderson: The music they're playing.
- Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: Oh, yeah.
- [pause]
- Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: What made you think of it?
- Mabel Anderson: Think of what?
- Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: The music.
- Mabel Anderson: [said sarcastically] Oh, I don't know; my mind was wandering, I guess.
- Mabel Anderson: [Mable thinks she's talking to Pop, when in reality they are on two opposite sets of stairs. She realizes this and turns to an onlooker - a young lady sitting at one of the tables] Oh listen, girlie! Don't worry about me. I always talk to myself... You see, I'm my own grandmother and I have to keep the old girl interested!
- Mabel Anderson: It must be love.
- Penelope "Penny" Carrol: How could I fall in love with a common gambler?
- Mabel Anderson: Penny, when a man takes a little quarter and builds it into a bankroll that would choke a horse, and makes my little ten dollars grow into hundreds, I'd call him an uncommon gambler.
- Penelope "Penny" Carrol: [singing] Don't lose your confidence if you slip. Be grateful for a pleasant trip, and pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.
- Penelope "Penny" Carrol: [singing] Nothing's impossible I have found, for when my chin is on the ground, I pick myself up, dust myself off, start all over again.
- John "Lucky" Garnett: [singing] Oh, but you're lovely, with your smile so warm, and your cheeks so soft, there is nothing for me but to love you, just the way you look tonight.
- Penelope "Penny" Carrol: [singing] A fine romance, with no kisses. A fine romance, my friend, this is. We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes. But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes.
- Penelope "Penny" Carrol: [singing] Work like a soul inspired, till the battle of the day is won. You may be sick and tired, but you'll be a man, my son! Will you remember the famous men, who had to fall, to rise again? So take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.
- Penelope "Penny" Carrol: [singing] A fine romance, my good fellow. You take romance, I'll take jello. You're calmer than the seals in the Arctic Ocean. At least they flap their fins to express emotion.
- John "Lucky" Garnett: [singing] Some day, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.
- John "Lucky" Garnett: [singing] With each word your tenderness grows, tearing my fear apart. And that little laugh that wrinkles your nose, touches my foolish heart. Lovely, never never change. Keep that breathless charm. Won't you please arrange it, 'cause I love you, just the way you look tonight.
- Penelope "Penny" Carrol: [singing] A fine romance, you won't nestle. A fine romance, you won't wrestle. I've never mussed the crease in your blue serge pants. I never have the chance. This is a fine romance.
- John "Lucky" Garnett: [singing] A fine romance, with no kisses. A fine romance, my friend this is. True love should have the thrills that a healthy climb has. We don't have half the thrills that the march of time has.
- Penelope "Penny" Carrol: [singing] A fine romance, with no quarrels, with no insults, and all morals. You're just as hard to land as the Ile de France. I never get the chance. This is a fine romance.
- John "Lucky" Garnett: [singing] A fine romance, with no clinches. A fine romance, with no pinches. You never give the orchids I send a glance. No, you like cactus plants. This is a fine romance.
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