- Katharine Hepburn: He knows what he's fighting for. He's fighting for the kind of world in which you and he can live together in happiness and peace and love. Don't ever think about quitting. Don't ever stop for a minute... working, fighting,praying until we've got that kind of a world. For you, for him, for your children... for the whole human race. Days without end. Amen.
- Dubious Army Sergeant: Look, I've been in both these here wars and I've been in plenty of joints, but I just can't figure this one out.
- Dakota Smith: Whaddya mean, Sarge?
- Dubious Army Sergeant: Well, you come in, you get free chow, free entertainment, free dancing, and with dames that come right up and ask for out to. What I'd like to know is, when do we get clipped?
- Sam Jaffe: These people represent the flesh and spirit that stopped the Germans at Stalingrad. Did I say 'stopped'? I meant 'exterminated'!
- Soldier: Do you theater people have these canteens all over the country?
- Ed Wynn: Oh sure we do. We've got canteens... Why they have one canteen in Washington D.C. It's the darnedest thing you ever saw. They don't have famous actors waiting on the soldiers like they do here. Down in Washington, congressmen wait on the boys. Those boys will starve to death down there you mark my words.
- Soldier: Why Mr. Wynn.
- Ed Wynn: Well, you know how long it takes for a congressman to pass anything.
- Lynn Fontaine: I do say it myself. I can flirt up a pretty sandwich. This is for my darling.
- Alfred Lunt: Wellll... thank you my dear!
- Lynn Fontaine: Ohh, it's not for you. It's for that adorable sailor from Savannah.
- Alfred Lunt: Oh, is that the boy who came up to me the other day and said, "Thank you Mr. Lunt" and I said you're welcome but what for? And he said, "I'm having so much fun with your wife?"
- Lynn Fontaine: Oh no, no. That boy came from Norfolk.
- Alfred Lunt: Oh, you do get around don't you!
- Lynn Fontaine: I don't but the sailors do.
- Dakota Smith: As they say in Madison Square Gardens, this is a return engagement.
- Judith Anderson: I'll bet 2 to 1 on the soldier. Knockout in the second round.
- Katharine Hepburn: [Inside the Canteen, after meeting Eileen outside waiting for Dakota] Have you ever broken any rules, Selena?
- Selena Royle: Of course, you're right. Shall we make an exception in her case?
- Katharine Hepburn: Why don't we make up a rule of our own, that brides don't have to wait on sidewalks.