- Bill Carey: Father... Father, help us.
- Father Antoine: My son, she goes where there is no east or west. And she will be judged by one who alone knows how great or how little were her sins.
- Bill Carey: Surely you don't think it wrong, Father, for people who love each other to marry, and marry decently and live happily forever afterwards?
- Father Antoine: I only think, monsieur, that you're marrying someone you love, but do not know - and will never know. Manon comes of a race older than ours, monsieur, a race whose heart is inscrutable and mysterious as its hats and its gods. You'll have only a half a bride, monsieur, eager and happy. The other half will always be far away from you. And I only fear that when sometimes this hidden one is revealed to you, you'll look with pain upon a stranger in your house, whatever your house be.
- Alfred Z. Harrison: [opening lines] Well, here we are. It's good to see old Saigon again.
- Mrs. Hazlitt: I hope your Saigon is going to be better than Manilla.
- Passenger on Yacht: They call it a jungle in a silk hat.
- Countess Berichi: As far as I'm concerned, I'm sick of elephants and I'm frightfully sick of people with bare feet.
- Mr. Hype: Miss Harrison, your father wishes to. know if your landing cards are ready?
- Dolly Harrison: We're just finishing.
- Mr. Hype: Thank you.
- Dolly Harrison: Bill, what's my occupation?
- Bill Carey: Well, that's easy: heiress, of course. Your problem is, what's mine?
- Dolly Harrison: Playboy.
- Bill Carey: No, they'd expect me to arrive with a string of blondes and a polo pony on my arm.
- Bill Carey: Let's get going.
- Dolly Harrison: Oh, dear, more site seeing.
- Bill Carey: Well, Baedeker here calls Saigon the Paris of the Indo-China.
- Dolly Harrison: Well, everyone of these places is always the Paris of something or other.
- Father Antoine: His father is French. His mother is a native.
- Countess Berichi: I adore half-caste! They're so vicious and fascinating.
- Father Antoine: No, no. They're not vicious. Somehow they remind me of, well, flying fish. Very harmless. Born to the water, they spend half their life trying to soar above it. Only to fall back again into the sea and die there.
- Dolly Harrison: Orientals are really the most fun, aren't they. I knew one once who was the head of a cult!
- Pierre Delaroch: You lie like a beggar.
- Manon DeVargnes: No, it's the truth!
- Pierre Delaroch: The truth? My dear, the truth is not in you. You have the face of the West; but, your soul is full of Eastern smoke.
- Pierre Delaroch: I know you, Manon, because I am like you. We both belong to that non-race with two heads. You dream that a passport will remove one of them - by magic - and leave you French, completely French. Stop dreaming, Manon.
- Commandant: I'm sorry, Mademoiselle; but, we feel you're better off in Saigon. Now, excuse me, please.
- Manon DeVargnes: But, Monsieur, Monsieur Commandant!
- Commandant: No, Mademoiselle. It's against our policy to send our half naked children into the world unprotected. I'm sure, my dear, you will in the end - be happier among your own kind.
- Manon DeVargnes: What can a woman do to a man that is cruel?
- Bill Carey: I can think of a few things.
- Manon DeVargnes: Not in Saigon. In Saigon, women are not important enough to be cruel.
- Bill Carey: I became a houseguest.
- Manon DeVargnes: Who's guest, Monsieur, did you become?
- Bill Carey: Anybodies. Anybodies with a swimming pool and a tennis court and a debutante lying around loose.
- Nina: Monsieur Delaroch, Manon - that would be better to marry than someone who lives in a jungle!
- Manon DeVargnes: Monsieur Kim Kahoon goes to Paris every few years and the government is very nice to him. They allow him to take along his wives.
- Nina: All of them?
- Manon DeVargnes: No. Only those he prefers. He will take me. And, then, when I'm in Paris, Nina, I will run out of the hotel and down the street and around the corner and hide myself forever - in a white world.
- Manon DeVargnes: Boats always look sad at night, don't they.
- Bill Carey: Yes. Like the moon. They ride away, like the moon.
- Alfred Z. Harrison: You know, I haven't been able to find Bill around anywhere.
- Countess Berichi: Oh, did you look behind the bar? He falls asleep there sometimes.
- Dolly Harrison: Bill is very nice. Much too nice to spend his life - cooped up on a yacht with a lot of sad, rich zombies.
- Bill Carey: [sarcastically] Good luck in your gold house in the jungle with rings on your fingers and bells on your toes.
- Manon DeVargnes: We who are born as I am cannot have what we want. In Saigon, I see the boats go away and my heart goes away on each one and I stay behind.
- Bill Carey: Kind of odd, isn't it. You go along hearing about love and thinking its something that happens only to lunatics and idiots. You keep wondering what all the yellings about and all the sudden you find out. You find out only once. Somebody you kiss just for fun, turns into a load of dynamite and blows you up.
- Manon DeVargnes: I've never been loved like that.
- Manon DeVargnes: It isn't true. You're being nice to me. It isn't true!
- Bill Carey: You're coming with me as my wife - in the eyes of God and man and the United States Passport Bureau.
- Pierre Delaroch: I shall always remember how sweet your lips were and I shall wait for them, patiently.
- Bill Carey: The way I figure is this, a month in Paris...
- Manon DeVargnes: Oh, no, no, no, no. Two months.
- Bill Carey: Okay, two months. London, two months. And then we go home.
- Manon DeVargnes: Home? Where is that?
- Bill Carey: Rainbowland, honey, the good old U.S.A.
- Bill Carey: Oh, Manon, my unpredictable little screwball!
- Manon DeVargnes: What is screwball?
- Bill Carey: A girl with one dress and laughing about it.
- Bill Carey: All that silly firewater, last night. Me passing out on you.
- Manon DeVargnes: There will be other nights.
- Bill Carey: There better be.
- [kiss]
- Bill Carey: You know how much rubber comes out of a tree in 24 hours?
- Manon DeVargnes: No.
- Bill Carey: Enough to make 175 pencil erasers.