- Augustin Haussy: Madame...
- Clio Dulaine: Yes?
- Augustin Haussy: You're very beautiful.
- [Nervously]
- Augustin Haussy: I mean... beautiful.
- Clio Dulaine: Yes, isn't it lucky?
- Clio Dulaine: Won't you come in?
- Colonel Clint Maroon: [Thinking he's been propositioned] Hey, uh, what kind of game is this anyway?
- [She seems bewildered]
- Colonel Clint Maroon: Now, look, Honey. I was born in Texas, but it wasn't yesterday.
- McIntyre: Ah, but Colonel Maroon, this isn't the Wild West.
- Colonel Clint Maroon: Worse! It's the Wild East!
- Clio Dulaine: If you mean to harm me, she'd be likely to kill you. She'd make a little figure like you out of soap, but she'd stick little pins into it, and you'd sicken and die.
- Sophie Bellop: Not I. I've had pins stuck in me all my life and - knives and everything up to pickaxes.
- Sophie Bellop: [to Clio] I know my way around this world. I know what it is to be very rich. I know what it is to be very poor. I've lived on nothing for years... in luxury.
- Colonel Clint Maroon: I love to hear your voice. It goes over me like oil over a blister. Womenfolks back home are mighty fine - they don't come any finer - but they kind of got screechy voices. Your voice kind of puts me in mind of a Texas sky at night - soft and perfect.
- Clio Dulaine: When I fix this house and live in it, I'll show these pasty-faced aristocrats, I am not my mother, to be sent away and turned into an ugly, broken-hearted woman and made an exile even after she was dead. Let them find out there's someone in Rampart Street now who's not afraid of them. Clio Dulaine, that's me! I'm as good as they are. I'm *better* than they are. I'll be richer than they. I'll be grander than they. I shall marry and be very rich and respectable, not like mama.
- Clio Dulaine: Men will be fools about me.
- Angelique Buiton: Your mama was a plaise. All she knew was to please a man.
- Clio Dulaine: Remember, no matter what i say I am, that I am. I don't want to hear any more of this telling me who I am and what I am to do. Do as i say, and we'll be rich.
- Clio Dulaine: Oh, what a heavenly smell!
- Angelique Buiton: Jambalaya.
- Clio Dulaine: Jambalaya - that mama wished for in Paris and couldn't get? Oh, I want some.
- Angelique Buiton: Oh, heavy stuff, you'll ruin your breakfast at Begue's.
- Clio Dulaine: You know i have the appetite of a dock worker. Quick cupid, tell the man a heaping plate for Madame la Comtesse.
- Colonel Clint Maroon: Ma'am. I hate to see anybody as plum beautiful as you riding in a moth-eaten old basket like this, let alone those two nags a- pullin' it.
- Clio Dulaine: I'm not nearly finished. I'm going to have an omelet souffle, and after that some strawberries with thick cream.
- Angelique Buiton: Yeah, burst your corset. Stuff yourself. With a figure like a cow, you'll get yourself a fine husband. Oh, yes.
- Colonel Clint Maroon: Where i come from, women are two kinds. They're good or they're bad. What kind of a woman are you?
- Clio Dulaine: Well, on my Father's side, I'm very, very good - prim, you might say, and very respectable. On my Mother's side, I'm - how shall i say that for your tender ears? Sometimes I'm Mama, who gave everything for love. Sometimes I'm my Grandmama Vaudray, who gave everything, too; but, not for love. And sometimes I'm my Great-Grandmama Bonavie, who was an actress.
- Colonel Clint Maroon: Shucks, that's it. I keep forgetting you're just a little girl dressed up in your Ma's long skirts.
- Clio Dulaine: No. No, I'm not. I'm very grown-up, and I'm going to fool the world.
- Colonel Clint Maroon: What am I doing getting hooked up with you? That's what I can't figure out. What am I doing in a house like this, la-de-daing around? Funny, the trouble you can get into just by talking to somebody on the street.
- Colonel Clint Maroon: I've seen lots of women, but i've never seen a woman like you before.
- Clio Dulaine: There isn't anyone like me, Clint.
- Clio Dulaine: Very, very rich and very respectable men are so rarely handsome. Then, one can't have everything.
- Angelique Buiton: How'd you like me to make you one big pie for dinner tonight?
- Colonel Clint Maroon: First rate, Mammy.
- Angelique Buiton: One thing I ask - you do not call me that.
- Colonel Clint Maroon: What?
- Angelique Buiton: That - Mammy. It's one thing i hate - out of the slave days. Me, I'm Angelique Buiton!
- Clio Dulaine: How good of you, Colonel, uh...
- Colonel Clint Maroon: Maroon. Clint Maroon.
- Clio Dulaine: What a delightful name! So, American.
- Colonel Clint Maroon: Texas, ma'am.
- Clio Dulaine: Texas? I should love to see Texas.
- Colonel Clint Maroon: Play your cards right, ma'am, and maybe you can.
- Roscoe Bean: Tomorrow i can let you have a suite in one of the cottages in the rear.
- Clio Dulaine: I? At the rear?
- Colonel Clint Maroon: Listen, he ain't as loco as he looks. And don't raise your eyebrows when i say "ain't."
- Clio Dulaine: Are you jealous?
- Colonel Clint Maroon: You're durn tooting, i'm jealous.
- Clio Dulaine: Just have to get used to it, my darling.
- Sophie Bellop: i say and i do as i please because i'm not afraid of anybody. It's a grand feeling.
- Clio Dulaine: In a way, you're just like i am.
- Bartholomew Van Steed: i've never seen a lady smoke a cigarette before.
- Clio Dulaine: It's a continental custom, i suppose. I've smoked since I was a baby.
- Bartholomew Van Steed: Yes, but - people will - well, in a hotel, people talk.
- Clio Dulaine: How kind of you to protect me like that. I'm not used to american ways, but a cigarette - a cigarette is sometimes cozy when one is lonely. Don't you find it so, Mr. Van Steed?
- Bartholomew Van Steed: I'm a cigar smoker myself.
- Clio Dulaine: Oh, but of course. So masculine.
- Sophie Bellop: I've got nothing to lose because i live by my wits. They can't take those away from me.
- Sophie Bellop: Your name was Clio Dulaine, and now you want it to be Mrs. Bartholomew Van Steed. I think you can get him with my help, though why you want him with that texan around. Me, I'd marry him though he hadn't a penny. Those shoulders and small through the hips, and the way he looks at you - oh, me! Always was a fool.
- Colonel Clint Maroon: Sure is comical how a woman likes to put her mark on a man with a needle. You couldn't rest nor wait till you had me crawling with all those fancy initials on my shirts and handkerchiefs. I look to wake up some day and find a big "c" branded on my rump.
- Colonel Clint Maroon: You set out to catch yourself a millionaire. You got him roped and tied. Now all you got to do is cinch the saddle down on him.
- Colonel Clint Maroon: Sure was different in New Orleans. Why can't it be like that here? You were mighty sweet those days. Ornery, but mighty sweet.
- Clio Dulaine: Fasten my dress! Why aren't you here when i need you?
- Angelique Buiton: Something frets me.
- Clio Dulaine: I wish we'd never come to this place. I hate it. I wish we'd stayed in Paris. I wish we'd stayed in New Orleans.
- Clio Dulaine: Angelique, bring a cocktail for Monsieur Van Steed.
- Bartholomew Van Steed: No, thank you. I never drink. My digestion.
- Clio Dulaine: Of course. I've noticed that strong men so often have weak digestions.
- Sophie Bellop: Just deny everything. That's a trick i learned from my husband. Caught him cold once with a chorus girl. He kept on denying it, looking me right in the eye until in the end, darned if i didn't believe the little liar.
- Sophie Bellop: What a to-do. I could hear you way down the hall, screeching like a of couple fishwives.
- Clio Dulaine: My father's blood, my blood. They are the same. I love it- this spot. I'll sleep here tonight.
- Clio Dulaine: Who shall i be?
- Angelique Buiton: You're acting just like your grandma.
- Clio Dulaine: I'll be a Comtesse. Oh, very good! I'm La Comtesse de Trignonai du Chenfrais.
- Angelique Buiton: And I'm the Queen of Spain.
- Cupidon: And I'm the Emperor Napoleon.