- Nick Allen: Now, run along now, darling. Your Mother and your Father have some weighty matters to talk over. Yes, we wish to discuss the advantages of a westward passage as against an eastward passage. Good night, my dear.
- Olivia: As a matter of fact, I'd hardly know him.
- Nick Allen: No. No, but you did know me.
- Olivia: No longer intimately, Nick.
- Nick Allen: Well what is left, of our love, I mean?
- Olivia: I hardly know. It's in an urn. A sealed urn.
- Count Felipe DeLatorie: This gentleman, not that I blame him, guards you like a Spaniard guards his wife on their honeymoon.
- Nick Allen: Mrs. Ottendorf is my wife.
- Olivia: That joke is not funny.
- Nick Allen: Well, was my wife.
- Count Felipe DeLatorie: Was your wife?
- Olivia: A long time ago.
- Nick Allen: Still is in South Carolina. South Carolina doesn't recognize divorce.
- Olivia: I'm going in, Nick.
- Nick Allen: Just take one look at the moon. I had if full tonight, especially for you.
- Olivia: No, I'm very tired.
- Nick Allen: This is the perfect place to be tired. Be tired in my arms.
- Olivia: I want to go in, Nick.
- Nick Allen: You want to go in because you're afraid I'm going to make love to you. You're quite right. I am.
- Olivia: No you're not, Nick. Good night.
- Olivia: I'd rather you made love to me without an audience.
- Nick Allen: Audience?
- Olivia: China boy.
- Nick Allen: Oh, don't worry about Chung. He even bathes me.
- Olivia: He isn't going to bathe me!
- Nick Allen: Listen, dear, you wouldn't object to a goldfish in your bathroom, would you? Well, he's really just a goldfish, that's all. Yes, he does everything in this house, except write my books for me. I can't allow that.
- Olivia: Can't see myself with a two-legged goldfish as a maid.