- Gertie Robbins: [reading from a handbook] "Do not lie in your bed with a uniform on. Do not put your hands on your hips. Do not cough or sneeze in anyone's face." Guess we can breath if we don't take advantage of it. "Do not eat in the corridors. Do not eat in the wards. Do not take a bite from someone else's fruit or candy." In other words, don't eat.
- Patricia Page: Norma, you look lovely!
- Norma Page: Not in this uniform! But, wait till I get into white. That's supposed to be irresistible.
- Patricia Page: Irresistible?
- Norma Page: To men, Kitten! This hospital has the richest patients and the highest paid doctors in the city. And you have to get married sometime.
- Patricia Page: That's not what you're here for.
- Norma Page: Oh, isn't it?
- Norma Page: She had it coming! The old horse face!
- Dr. Stephen Melford: You must remember, we need discipline here.
- Norma Page: Yes, doctor.
- Express: Sometimes I think I've got the soul of an artist in me.
- Gertie Robbins: The heart of a highwayman, too! Get goin', Jesse James.
- Express: I'm gonna buy you a steak!
- Gertie Robbins: Oh, Express, you're sweet!
- Express: Oh, I'm sorta wooin' yah.
- Gertie Robbins: Honey, with this steak, you're wowin' me!
- Dr. Stephen Melford: You know I'm a doctor and now you're crabbing because now I'm attending to business. If you want a playboy, why don't you go out and find yourself one!
- Robert Maitland: I want a male nurse!
- Norma Page: Why, I'm sure you'll find us just as efficient.
- Robert Maitland: I don't care. I don't want a woman nurse!
- Robert Maitland: Oh, will you go away!
- Norma Page: Oh, be quiet and stop acting like a pest. You're not in a nightclub now, you're in a hospital and nobody here cares who you are! You're just another noisy, complaining patient!
- Robert Maitland: Say, where are you going?
- Norma Page: To inform the superintendent that you only want men around you to protect you from designing women, I suppose. Well, let me tell you, Mr. Maitland, we're not women, we're nurses!
- Robert Maitland: Will you get my cigarettes for me?
- Norma Page: It's against the rules to smoke in bed.
- Robert Maitland: Miss Page, is it against the rules to ask you to fix my pillow?
- [Miss Page leans over to adjust his pillow]
- Robert Maitland: Mmm-hmm. Just as I thought. You're as pretty close up than you are across the room.
- Express: Look what Mr. Maitland gave me. His nightclub uniform. It's a little bullet worn. but...
- Gertie Robbins: Is he as romantic as the girls say he is?
- Express: Not in his underwear.
- Norma Page: Pat, you make me feel like a Christmas Tree! Why don't you dress for dinner?
- Patricia Page: Should I put on my war paint and my $10 evening dress and dazzle you?
- Robert Maitland: Pat, you don't have to put on your war paint to dazzle me.
- Patricia Page: Oh, don't I?
- Robert Maitland: [looks at Norma] I'm dazzled already.
- Patricia Page: I love to swim and fish and go exploring.
- Robert Maitland: Well, I thought ladies preferred pretty clothes and parties and romance?
- Patricia Page: Oh, they're nice too, I guess.
- Robert Maitland: You guess? You mean you've never had a romance?
- [Pat shakes her head no and Robert laughs]
- Robert Maitland: You're a funny kid, Pat.
- Norma Page: Oh!
- Robert Maitland: You'll come, won't you?
- Norma Page: Yes. Yes, I'll come.
- Robert Maitland: Swell.
- Robert Maitland: Say, you're the cutest kid I've ever seen in my life. And just to prove it -
- [kisses Pat]
- Robert Maitland: There. Now, that's to teach you not to trifle with susceptible young men.
- Patricia Page: Oh, yes, it won't, will it. I mean, it will, won't it. Oh! Oh!
- Robert Maitland: Why all this sudden interest in graduating? I thought you didn't care a hoot about nursing.
- Norma Page: Well, sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until we're about to lose it.