- Jimmy: How about a bit of lunch, and then off and over and see the 'ounds?
- Mary: Why 'ounds, Jimmy? Why not hounds? Why do you always leave out your H's?
- Jimmy: Me grandfather left 'em out, me father left 'em out, and I leave 'em out. It's in the blood, I expect.
- Mary: Well, it's nice there's something in it.
- Jimmy: Huh?
- Mary: Even if it isn't H's.
- Jimmy, Mary: Look here, old girl, you're not a bit yourself since you came back from South Africa. My opinion is, you got a germ there.
- Willie: I think for a common little tobacconist's assistant, I behaved rather well. Because, as a playwright, I could have been terribly unpleasant.
- Willie: I'd rather a million times you never belonged to me, than you did for a little and I lost you.
- Mary: I'll give up everything for you.
- Willie: Tomorrow you'll be sorry.
- Mary: No, I won't. I promise you I want to.
- Willie: Think it over, my sweet. And if tomorrow you feel the same, that would be divine. But if you don't and you go with that ship, I'll understand.
- Mary: Willie, dear, what was the good of marrying him? I'd have only run away with you two months after.
- Willie: Sometimes, I'm so unhappy I can't sleep, and sometimes I'm so happy I don't want to.
- Mary: Because of me?
- Willie: Sometimes I'm so happy, I don't need food. And sometimes I'm so unhappy, it chokes me.
- Mary: Because of me?
- Willie: No - because I've got to be in the tobacconist shop tomorrow morning at nine o'clock.
- Admiral: But, for your mother's sake and mine, you won't do this.
- Mary: Aren't you and mother only concerned about my sake?
- Admiral: Why, of course.
- Mary: Then why do you want me to marry a man I'll be unhappy with? You only seem to be concerned with what other people will say. Things that don't matter. Not me at all.
- Willie: A starving man has very little respect for himself, so you can't expect him to have any at all for you.
- Willie: Uh, my wife and I are very grateful to you for your felicitations. It has pleased God to place upon this earth few great men. We are alive to our responsibility.
- Mary: The only thing that matters to me is your succeeding. No matter what we go through, not matter what happens to us. It's all trivial compared to that. I'll do anything in the world to help you. You'd hate to fail me, wouldn't you?
- Willie: That's the only thing I'm terrified of.
- Mary: But you won't.