- Colonel Michael Otley: Lucille, everyone in the Army isn't a general.
- Lucille, Colonial Auto Court Porter: No, sir, but you'd be surprised how my tips increased after I started calling everyone general.
- Jean Howard: Love is a beautiful thing.
- Lieut. Don Mallory: I get two hours of it every Saturday night at a movie. That's enough for me.
- Lucille, Colonial Auto Court Porter: Uh, General, excuse me, sir... I know it ain't none of my business, but Lt. Mallory's right, sir. He DID sleep outside.
- Colonel Michael Otley: What's that?
- Lucille, Colonial Auto Court Porter: I got it right here in my diary.
- Colonel Michael Otley: You actually saw him?
- Lucille, Colonial Auto Court Porter: Not only saw him, I almost *sat* on him. Well, you see, me and my girlfriend was out there, lookin' at the moon...
- Colonel Michael Otley: [Interrupting] Are you SURE it was Lt. Mallory?
- Lucille, Colonial Auto Court Porter: Oh, yes, sir. I never forget a face - especially when I've sat on it!
- Lucille, Colonial Auto Court Porter: Like I always said, nothin' like a wedding to bring two married people together! Huh huh!
- Jean Howard: You don't have to know me. All you have to do is marry me. I mean, pretend to marry me, just for a little while.
- Jean Howard: It's so hard to tell if a man is married. Course, a girl always wears a ring on her finger.
- Lieut. Don Mallory: Mmm hmm, a man always wears one through his nose.
- Lieut. Don Mallory: [Seeing Jean in a skimpy nightgown] Holy mackerel!
- Jean Howard: What are you staring at?
- Lieut. Don Mallory: Is that a special outfit for brushing your teeth?
- Jean Howard: It happens to be the latest thing in night-ware.
- Lieut. Don Mallory: Oh... I suppose it gives you more freedom?
- Jean Howard: Well, that's what we're fighting for, isn't it?
- Earl 'Slim' Clark: You're going too fast for me. I have to have time to think things like this over.
- Jean Howard: Mr. Clark, you don't seem like the hesitating type to me.
- Earl 'Slim' Clark: I'm not exactly hesitating. I'm just kind of hard to get. Now, you got to work on me a little while. Now, last year, for instance, Foster took me for a week's fishing trip for an order. How badly do you want this one? Say, a dinner's worth?
- Jean Howard: Surely I don't need to bribe you, Mr. Clark.
- Earl 'Slim' Clark: You don't call my taking you out to dinner bribing me, do you?
- Clayfield Taxi Driver: Lady, if I was a curious man, I'd sure wonder what you was up to, I tell you that.
- J.R. Howard, Coast Oil Well Supply: This is a man's job.
- Jean Howard: Why?
- J.R. Howard, Coast Oil Well Supply: Well, well it is! That's all. Who ever heard of a female oil well supply salesman? Why, I'd be laughed right out of the business.
- Jean Howard: You see, I'm not married. But, I'm supposed to be. I don't mean that I'm going to be. I just mean that people think that I am. I'm not. Oh dear. I must sound confused.
- Jean Howard: I'm the guy from Howard's.
- Earl 'Slim' Clark: Well, *hello*. Brother!
- Jean Howard: Did you get our wire?
- Earl 'Slim' Clark: Yes.
- [looking Jean up-and-down]
- Earl 'Slim' Clark: Say, I've heard about things like this; but, I thought the only time you saw it was when you went without water for a week or two.
- Jean Howard: Well, won't you ask fellow to sit down?
- Jean Howard: I'm not going to be talked to that way by you or anybody else - in or out of uniform. Now, who's your commanding officer?
- Colonel Michael Otley: My commanding officer?
- Jean Howard: Yes! I'm going to report you.
- Colonel Michael Otley: Report? Well, oh, if you were only a WAC!
- Lieut. Don Mallory: Listen, lady, what would you think if you picked up a strange man and he wanted to do what you want to do?
- Jean Howard: All I want to do is sleep!
- Lieut. Don Mallory: If my commanding officer ever found it out, he'd...
- Jean Howard: Oh, but he doesn't have to find it out. This is just between you and me. And when it's all over, you can forget it.
- Captain Jack Ross: [racing past] I got it! I got it! I got it!
- Colonel Michael Otley: Got what?
- Lieut. Don Mallory: An avocado, sir.
- Colonel Michael Otley: What's so startling about that?
- Lucille, Colonial Auto Court Porter: You know, General, he's the one expecting to become a mother.
- Colonel Michael Otley: Oh. That is startling.
- Dorothy Dandridge - Vocalist: [singing] All I wanna know, Is do you, Don't you? Baby, will you, Won't you? Please make up your mind. Whatcha Say? Do I get that little kiss? Whatcha Say?
- Lieut. Don Mallory: A strange man is picking you up here?
- Jean Howard: Oh, there's nothing strange about him. He's a customer.
- Lieut. Don Mallory: What am I supposed to do? Stay home and knit?
- Colonel Michael Otley: And, of course, there may be a little Mallory. You must think of him.
- Lieut. Don Mallory: Oh, there won't be a little Mallory. Not for quite some time, sir.
- Colonel Michael Otley: I said that too and now our little Otley is piloting a Superfortress over Tokyo.
- Colonel Michael Otley: Attack your problem, my boy. Attack it. Mrs. Otley and I had the right idea 30 years ago. We made it a counter-order, no matter what rages in our hearts, to kiss each other. She'll find it pretty hard to shout at you after a kiss.
- Lieut. Don Mallory: But, you mean, I...
- Jean Howard: Are you suggesting that he kiss me?
- Colonel Michael Otley: As his commanding officer, it could be interpreted as an order!
- Jean Howard: A business engagement. I suppose I should have told you before. I sell oil well supplies.
- Lieut. Don Mallory: Oil well supplies?
- Dorothy Dandridge - Vocalist: [singing] Okay, here I come, From out of the blue, To make you happy, And what do you do?
- Orchestra Leader: Now, honey, you pitched the boogie-woogie, Shame on you
- Lucille, Colonial Auto Court Porter: Well, given somethin' you don't want to a fella that wants it, makes everybody happy.
- Jean Howard: You're not jealous, are you?
- Lieut. Don Mallory: Jealous? Of you and that long drink of oil? Heh.
- Captain Jack Ross: Now Millie doesn't want an avocado. What does that mean.
- Jean Howard: Try cantaloupe.
- Captain Jack Ross: Oh, thank you. This may be a night to remember.
- Jean Howard: It may be one to forget.
- Colonel Michael Otley: Young people have to realize that society has certain moral rules and regulations. If they're broken, well, they have to pay the penalty, that's all.
- Lieut. Don Mallory: You might have had more respect for me, you know. Look at your face. It's bad enough going out with a strange guy without coming back with your *lipstick* all smeared.
- Jean Howard: Oh, dear. I can't imagine how it happened.
- Lieut. Don Mallory: It usually comes from necking!
- Lieut. Don Mallory: In this war, women have proved they can do any job a man can do - that is, with certain exceptions.
- Mrs. Mallory - Don's Mother: Just a minute, boy. Where's that young lady that was here?
- Lucille, Colonial Auto Court Porter: You mean Mrs. Mallory, Mrs. Mallory?
- Mrs. Mallory - Don's Mother: Now, don't you start that!
- Earl 'Slim' Clark: I told you so.
- Lucille, Colonial Auto Court Porter: Well, she's down in cabin number 10 makin' time with her husband. I think he's your son.
- Mrs. Mallory - Don's Mother: My son?
- Lucille, Colonial Auto Court Porter: I told you you was gonna git the willies.