- Brian Roberts: You're American.
- Sally: Oh God, how depressing! You're meant to think I'm an international woman of mystery. I'm working on it like mad.
- [on the pronunciation of "phlegm"]
- Brian Roberts: P H is always pronounced as F, and, uh, you don't sound the G.
- Natalia Landauer: Then why are they putting the G, please?
- Brian Roberts: That's, that's a very good question, but rather difficult to explain.
- Sally: Try, Brian.
- Brian Roberts: Well, uh, it's just there.
- Natalia Landauer: So, Mr. Professor, you do not know?
- Brian Roberts: No.
- Natalia Landauer: Then I am sorry. I cannot help you.
- Brian Roberts: Aren't you ever gonna stop deluding yourself, hmm? Handling Max? Behaving like some ludicrous little underage femme fatale? You're... you're about as fatale as an after dinner mint!
- Master of Ceremonies: Outside it is windy, but inside it is so hot, every night we have ze battle to keep the girls from taking off all their clothing. So don't go away, who knows? Tonight we may lose the battle!
- Master of Ceremonies: In here, life is beautiful. The girls are beautiful. Even the orchestra is beautiful!
- [Curtains pull back to reveal an all-girl band]
- [describing a telegram from her father]
- Sally: Ten words exactly. After ten it's extra. You see, Daddy thinks of these things. If I had leprosy, there'd be a cable: "Gee, kid, tough. Sincerely hope nose doesn't fall off. Love."
- Sally: I saw a film the other day about syphilis. Ugh! It was too awful. I couldn't let a man touch me for a week. Is it true you can get it from kissing?
- Fritz: Oh, yes. And your king, Henry VIII, got it from Cardinal Wolsey whispering in his ear.
- Natalia: That is not, I believe, founded in fact. But from kissing, most decidedly; and from towels, and from cups.
- Sally: And of course screwing.
- Natalia: Screw-ing, please?
- Sally: Oh, uh...
- [thinking]
- Sally: fornication.
- Natalia: For-ni-ca-tion?
- Sally: Oh, uh, Bri, darling, what is the German word?
- Brian Roberts: I don't remember.
- Sally: [thinking] Oh... um... oh yes!
- Brian Roberts: Oh, no...
- Sally: Bumsen!
- Natalia: [appalled] Oh.
- Brian Roberts: That would be the one German word you pronounce perfectly.
- Sally: Well, I ought to. I spent the entire afternoon bumsening like mad with this ghastly old producer who promised to get me a contract.
- [pause]
- Sally: Gin, Miss Landauer?
- Fritz Wendel: Do you know what she has done to me? It's terrible! She has turned me into an honest man.
- Sally: I suppose you're wondering what I'm doing, working at a place like the Kit Kat Club.
- Brian Roberts: Well, it is a rather unusual place.
- Sally: That's me, darling. Unusual places, unusual love affairs. I am a most strange and extraordinary person.
- Brian Roberts: [as Max and Brian are leaving the beer garden where the audience, led by a Hitler Youth boy, is singing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"] Do you still think you can control them?
- Sally: Mayr tells Kost's fortune every morning, and it's always the same: "You will meet a strange man." Which under the circumstances is a pretty safe bet.
- Brian Roberts: How's the, uh, gigolo campaign going?
- Fritz Wendel: Terrible. This week, already I'm giving up three dinner invitations to spend thirty-two marks on her.
- Brian Roberts: That's quite a sacrifice.
- Fritz Wendel: And here's the craziness: I like it. God damn it!
- Brian Roberts: What?
- Fritz Wendel: I think I'm falling in love with her.
- Brian Roberts: Oh, I'm so sorry.
- Fritz Wendel: So am I.
- Hitler Youth: [singing] Oh, Fatherland. Fatherland / Show us the sign / Your children have waited to see / The morning will come when the world is mine / Tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs to me!
- Maximilian von Heune: The Nazis are just a gang of stupid hooligans, but they do serve a purpose. Let them get rid of the Communists. Later we'll be able to control them.
- Brian Roberts: But who exactly is we?
- Maximilian von Heune: Germany, of course.
- Sally: Of course, I may bring a boyfriend home occasionally, but only occasionally, because I do think that one ought to go to the man's room if one can. I mean, it doesn't look so much as if one expected it, does it?
- Brian Roberts: You did it, didn't you?
- Sally: Did what, darling?
- Brian Roberts: The abortion. In God's name, why?
- Sally: One of my whims?
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