- Rick Leland: [comparing his gun to Dr. Lorenz's, which he points at him] Remember: mine is bigger than yours!
- Alberta Marlow: We were discussing Philippine economics when we were so rudely interrupted.
- Dr. Lorenz: My own field! Miss Marlowe was kind enough to listen to me.
- Rick Leland: They're going to be free in 1946, aren't they?
- Dr. Lorenz: They are - provided America doesn't insist on fighting a war with Japan. It's my opinion, however, that that contingency is going to keep the Philippines from ever being free.
- Alberta Marlow: Won't Japan gobble them up?
- Rick Leland: No offense, but Japan or Canada or anybody else can have the Philippines, as far as I'm concerned. It's hot in Manila.
- Dr. Lorenz: Might be even hotter before long.
- Alberta Marlow: Hot enough to go around in shorts?
- Rick Leland: Ah, there's a Canadian for you! Let 'em take their clothes off, and they're happy.
- Rick Leland: How are you doing, angel?
- Alberta Marlow: I think I got pushed in the face by someone. My - My lipstick's smeared.
- Rick Leland: Aww, you look cute.
- Alberta Marlow: And now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go to my cabin... and faint.
- Rick Leland: You certainly are a girl of many colors. First, your legs get blue. Then, your face turns green. And, now, your red all over.
- Alberta Marlow: I never knew what suffering was until I came on this pleasure trip.
- Rick Leland: Hey, are you getting sick?
- Alberta Marlow: I don't know. How do girls usually act when you kiss them?
- Rick Leland: Well, they don't turn green.
- Alberta Marlow: Then I'm sick. Get me out of here.
- Alberta Marlow: I'm not so obsessed with money as you seem to be. I can do without it.
- Rick Leland: You stick around with me and you'll get plenty of practice.
- Rick Leland: Is that a gag, or do really come from a place called Medicine Hat?
- Alberta Marlow: What's wrong with Medicine Hat, except that it's hot in summer, cold in winter and nothing ever happens there?
- Rick Leland: I never saw anybody like you; you never have any clothes on.
- Alberta Marlow: Well, if anyone heard you complaining about it, they would put you in a psychopathic ward.
- Alberta Marlow: [Talking about Japanese people in general] You are always so calm. You never show anything.
- Capt. Higoto: We are told not to. It is our way of rife. We must not show too much sad-i-ness or too much joy. If you praise what we have, we say it is nus-sing. If you admire our sons, we must say thay are unworthy.
- Rick Leland: It'll probably end up with Captain Higoto marrying us on the boat.
- Alberta Marlow: Oh, no! I want a church wedding and a groom who's got more than two suits.
- Rick Leland: [to Lorenz as they both view U.S. planes overhead] Any of your friends in Tokyo have trouble committing hari-kiri, those boys'd be glad to help them out.
- Alberta Marlow: [after they kiss] What's the matter?
- Rick Leland: Look, I didn't mean that.
- Alberta Marlow: I did. Why didn't you?
- Rick Leland: Well, a fellow with a suit like mine, shouldn't go around kissing girls.
- Rick Leland: If you catch pneumonia, what will happen to our romance?
- Alberta Marlow: What will happen to it anyway, if you don't shave.
- Joe Totsuiko: Pull up a chair, Joe. Thanks, I will. What's that you're knocking yourselves out with? Hey, waiter, I'll have one of those. Well, how we doing?
- Alberta Marlow: Mr. Leland, I believe that a man should tell the woman he's going to marry everything.
- Rick Leland: Oh, in that case, I'll come clean.
- Alberta Marlow: What?
- Rick Leland: I look old, but that's because I've worried a lot. Actually, I haven't yet reached the age of legal consent, and if you don't get out of here, I'm gonna yell for help.
- Alberta Marlow: All right, you can get yourself another heiress.
- Rick Leland: [Clears throat] We're going to know each other eventually, so, why not now.
- Alberta Marlow: That seems reasonable enough. I'm Alberta Marlow.
- Rick Leland: My name's Rick Leland. Would you mind stepping into the light? Please.
- [Both walk towards the light]
- Rick Leland: On a Jap freighter, too. You better pinch me.
- Alberta Marlow: I don't think I know you that well.
- Rick Leland: A pretty girl on a boat and no college boy, no handsome officers, no eligible men of any description. That's wonderful.
- Rick Leland: Are your legs always blue?
- Alberta Marlow: They're not blue!
- Rick Leland: Oh, Sugi - give me that blanket, will you?
- Alberta Marlow: I don't want a blanket; I want sunshine.
- Rick Leland: Oh, your teeth are chattering like a crap game. This is November, and it's winter, sunshine.
- Rick Leland: At last, we're alone. Now, listen, bright eyes.
- Alberta Marlow: No romance. There's something very interesting over there, Ricky.
- Rick Leland: Where? What do you mean?
- Alberta Marlow: T. Oki. It's not the same Oki that came down from Halifax with us. That's another man.
- Rick Leland: Ah, the heat's getting you, Angel. They all look alike.
- Alberta Marlow: No they don't either. Not if you examine them closely.
- Dr. Lorenz: Where will you stay in Panama, Mr. Leland?
- Rick Leland: The Pan American. It's very quite and respectable.
- Joe Totsuiko: That ain't for me.
- Rick Leland: Where are you going beautiful?
- Alberta Marlow: I'll have to find some place where they have the bath at the end of the hall and a 40 cents lunch.
- Rick Leland: I know the guy who owns the Pan American. He'll give you a rate.
- Rick Leland: Sam, you can help me. People tell you things.
- Sam Wing On: People tell me because I don't tell. I tell, they don't tell me any more.
- Joe Totsuiko: You can sit down now, folks. Nobody's going anywhere.
- Rick Leland: You guys been lookin' for a war, haven't you?
- Joe Totsuiko: That's right, Rick. That's why we're starting it.
- Rick Leland: You may start it, Joe, but we'll finish it.
- Dr. Lorenz: One night, you told me about your troubles in the Army. I'd like to hear more about that.
- Rick Leland: I got in a jam with a dame.
- Dr. Lorenz: Yes?
- Rick Leland: I needed some dough. I had access to the regimental funds so I borrowed it, intending to put it back, of course.
- Dr. Lorenz: Of course.
- Rick Leland: They found out first. The brass hats could have given me a chance if they wanted to, but they didn't. They tied me up with pink ribbons and threw me to the wolves. Write your own finish.
- Sam Wing On: What's the matter you, Rick?
- Rick Leland: What's a matter you? What's a matter me, Sam?
- Sam Wing On: All the time, people say you no good. Big smell from up north. I what's a matter you come back? Too much Army here. Everyone know. You through with Panama. Panama through with you!
- Rick Leland: Well, Sam, maybe I won't be here long.
- Sam Wing On: You no need money? Sam smell big fish.
- Rick Leland: Sam keep nose clean. Sam no smell fish. No catchy trouble.
- Sam Wing On: All the time, you like trouble. Maybe so, Dr. Lorenz trouble?
- Rick Leland: Maybe so.
- Sam Wing On: Gal too?
- Rick Leland: I don't know Sam. I hope she's all right.
- Sam Wing On: She got your bad. Much trouble. All the time, much trouble.
- Rick Leland: I'm sorry to be late, angel. I was held up.
- Alberta Marlow: Oh, I like waiting for you Ricky. Wouldn't I make a splendid wife.
- Rick Leland: What'll it be?
- Alberta Marlow: Something cool and long.
- Rick Leland: Maybe you overlooked something?
- Dr. Lorenz: Could you suggest anything, sir, that we might have overlooked?
- Rick Leland: What about your getaway?
- Dr. Lorenz: We have a rendezvous with an undersea boat.
- Rick Leland: What was that boat you were talking about?
- Steamship Office Clerk: The Genoa Maru, sailing tonight for Yokohama, by way of New York, the Panama Canal, and Honolulu.
- Rick Leland: It's for me.
- Steamship Office Clerk: Excuse, please.
- Rick Leland: How much?
- Steamship Office Clerk: To port of final destination, 212 dollars 80 cents.
- Dr. Lorenz: You probably don't share my enthusiasm for the Japanese.
- Rick Leland: I don't know, I never thought much about them.
- Dr. Lorenz: A wonderful little people. Wonderful. Greatly misunderstood, believe me. To know them, that is to really know them, is to feel the deepest affection for them.
- Alberta Marlow: Who are you after? Are you a G-man or something?
- Rick Leland: What if I was?
- Alberta Marlow: I just wondered.
- Canadian Major: Your full name?
- Rick Leland: Richard Lomas Leland.
- Canadian Major: [recognising the name] Richard Leland?
- Rick Leland: Yes, sir.
- Canadian Major: I believe at this time we have a full complement of coastal artillery officers of all ranks.
- Rick Leland: I thought the Canadian army needed men of experience.
- Canadian Major: Oh, regardless of his qualifications, no one man is indispensable.
- Rick Leland: Maybe Chiang Kai-shek won't be so particular.
- Canadian Major: I'm aware neither of the exact desperation of the Generalissimo's needs, nor how good are his sources of information. Good day, Mr Leland.
- Dr. Lorenz: Don't you find, Mr. Leland, that the United States is inclined to forget that most of the world is at war already, with more war to come? Perhaps in the Pacific?
- Rick Leland: Well, if it comes, it'll have to do without me.
- Dr. Lorenz: Relationships between modern young Americans seem most peculiar to a man of my years. You give your lovemaking an assault and battery twist. Living so long in the Far East has perhaps given me a more or less Oriental view of things.
- Rick Leland: Someone should tell our little friend that tight overcoats and guns don't go together. He's liable to get picked up by a cop.