- Girl at Party: Are you alone?
- Dr. Lew Worship: No. No. Not if you're with me.
- Girl at Party: Sure?
- Dr. Lew Worship: Are you nervous about something?
- Girl at Party: They told me you're married.
- Dr. Lew Worship: Not tonight.
- Gloria Worship nee Mead: You really don't understand me, do you? Don't you know a woman's real function is to have children?
- Dr. Lew Worship: I know what a woman's real function is, Gloria.
- Gloria Worship nee Mead: Well, I lost that function. All my life I took care of myself so I could have strong, healthy children. I picked a handsome intelligent, healthy young man for a husband.
- Dr. Lew Worship: You sound like the head of a Nazi breeding camp.
- Dr. Arthur Hellman, Psychiatrist: Without going into a lengthy diagnosis, I think it's fair to say that Nancy is an unstable personality. She's one of those tender people who cannot deal with stress and pressures. Oh, she does fine as long as she's surrounded with people who love and care for her, but the minute that she's confronted with a situation involving stress, like that incident at the party, she's liable to go...
- Dr. Tony 'Shiv' Parelli: All right, so I'll keep her away from parties.
- Dr. Arthur Hellman, Psychiatrist: Any trivial incident involving stress and pressure is liable to set her off.
- Dr. Tony 'Shiv' Parelli: That's double talk. That's psychiatric double talk. That some science... psychiatry.
- Dr. Arthur Hellman, Psychiatrist: The science of psychiatry cannot cure everyone. Does that mean it's worthless?
- Dr. Pete Clarke: What the hell's going on here? Who's going to work on this kid?
- Dr. Tony 'Shiv' Parelli: I am.
- Dr. Pete Clarke: You are? Where's the surgical resident?
- Dr. Tony 'Shiv' Parelli: He's busy.
- Dr. Pete Clarke: Then get on the phone and get somebody up here.
- Dr. Tony 'Shiv' Parelli: I can do this.
- Dr. Pete Clarke: But this is a major abdominal wound. He hasn't got a chance.
- Dr. Tony 'Shiv' Parelli: Clarke! i know I can save him.
- Dr. Alec Considine: You know ever since you told me you wanted to get married, why, uh, I've been doing a lot of thinking about us, and I've come to the conclusion that of all the girls I know, I like you best of all.
- Nurse Laura Rogers: [Dryly] Oh, thank you.
- Dr. Alec Considine: But marriage, uh uh, not now. No. Yeah, maybe that's immature, but all I want right now is for you and me to have fun. The rest might come later but I'm making no promises and I'm giving no commitments. I'm sorry but that's the way it is and if you find it's too much to take you just have to hold out your carrots for some other rabbit.
- Nurse Laura Rogers: That's the most amazing speech You've ever made. You fascinate me. You're so honest and anybody who is mature enough to admit he's immature deserves to have anything he wants. Honey, you've got a deal.
- Dr. Dominick 'Dom' Riccio: I don't know why I waste my time with you. You're a damn fool hard head and I don't think you'll ever learn. Any first-year student knows you don't take on a patient that you're personally involved with and what an involvement. Everybody in this hospital knows you wanted that boy to die and die he damned well did.
- Dr. Tony 'Shiv' Parelli: I didn't kill him.
- Dr. Dominick 'Dom' Riccio: Maybe not. Will let that go for a moment.
- Dr. Alec Considine: [Talking to a psychiatrist] She wants to get married and I'm not ready for that now or in the foreseeable future. The way I feel right this minute, I know damned well three months after we married, I'd be off chasing again. That's the kind of guy I am. I'm tuned into lots of girls. Variety, that's what I need. I'm not ready to settle down with one yet. At this point in my life, marriage seems a hell of a complicated commitment to make just to ease my physical tensions. Of course! I'm barking up the wrong tree! She's a wonderful girl and someday she might be ideal for me but right now we 'd just destroy each other.
- Gloria Worship nee Mead: [after an argument] Where are you going?
- Dr. Lew Worship: [Angrily] To the party... to get drunk maybe. Maybe if I wrap my brain in a blanket of alcohol, I'll feel like a man again.
- Dr. Tony 'Shiv' Parelli: [to Dr. Riccio] You're wrong about me but you don't have the guts to admit it. Now maybe I wanted that kid to die at first. God knows I had enough reason. But up there I tried my damnedest to save that punk for only one reason... because he was a patient and whether you want to admit it or not, you taught me what that means.
- Dr. Tony 'Shiv' Parelli: A whole week since it happened. Don't you think you flatheads could've gotten a line on him yet?
- Detective Harper: Let me tell you something, doctor. First, policemen don't like to be called "flatheads." Can we agree on that for openers?
- Dr. Tony 'Shiv' Parelli: O.K.
- Detective Harper: Second, and this is the reason I'm here. You're not doing us a bit of good prowling around that neighborhood every night.
- Dr. Tony 'Shiv' Parelli: And third, what do you know? That his name is Beep and he's disappeared. That's beautiful.
- Detective Harper: You're quite the indignant taxpayer, aren't you?
- Dr. Tony 'Shiv' Parelli: Just a second. Now I know it's a big city and you got lots of problems. But you better get him before I do or else there's not going to be much left of him to put in jail.
- Detective Harper: A friendly piece of advice, doctor. I know where you come from but you're not in that jungle now. Don't let yourself slide back into it.
- Madeline Osterman: Would you mind terribly putting out that cigarette? It's making me nauseous.
- Mrs. Hitchcock: Oh? Has cigarette smoke always bothered you?
- Madeline Osterman: Why, no. As a matter of fact, only recently.
- Mrs. Hitchcock: I see. Do you mind if I get personal, young lady? It's all right. I've been around here so long you can talk to me like a nurse. Now tell me, when you get up in the morning, do you...
- Madeline Osterman: If you're trying to find out if I am pregnant, I am.
- Mrs. Hitchcock: It's Dr. Osterman, isn't it?
- Madeline Osterman: Naturally.
- Mrs. Hitchcock: It's always the quiet ones.
- Dr. Alec Considine: Honey, it was a bet. Besides, nothing happened!
- Nurse Laura Rogers: Because I interrupted you.
- Dr. Alec Considine: Are you calling me a liar?
- Nurse Laura Rogers: Let's not argue.
- Dr. Alec Considine: Alright, honey. Can I make a suggestion? A truce for the duration of the party?
- Nurse Laura Rogers: I'll give it to you straight. We are not at war. I don't fight with children. You are emotionally immature and sexually athletic.
- Dr. Alec Considine: What?
- Nurse Laura Rogers: And it's too bad you're not grown up because you are an attractive animal. But for this girl, that is simply not enough. E-N-U-F.