- Ilmari Arotie: Why do you ask?... my ideal woman?... I'm sorry, but she's not a modern woman - like the ones here.
- Anja Iida Leiste: [Indignant] What's wrong with us?
- Ilmari Arotie: Look at her for instance
- [her friend Nora. played by Kirsti Hurme, who has just sung]
- Ilmari Arotie: what could she do in a cowshed? No; give me a healthy, completely natural girl... I want to be able to describe woman in three words: sturdy, ruddy and brisk!
- [English subtitles to Finnish dialogue]
- Taneli: I could crop the muck-spreader from the picture.
- [English subtitle translation to Finnish dialogue]