- Lori the piano player: Prostitute? I don't believe you. She has a job at the Club Florida. I work there too. Now, go on. Get out.
- Ulick, German Health Dept.: I didn't come here to make any fuss. As long as she stays here and doesn't leave town, she won't have any difficulties. Just tell her to come by once a month and report to the Health Department.
- Prof. Julius Angermann: I'm getting so I don't care who wins this war, if only it were over.
- Maj. Foster MacLain: Isn't that rather dangerous talk here in Germany?
- Prof. Julius Angermann: It's dangerous talk anywhere. My only hope now is that the world will be a better place when this is over.
- Maj. Foster MacLain: Let's say it can't be worse.
- Prof. Julius Angermann: It's a scientific fact, I believe, that the darkness is usually followed by the dawn.
- Maj. Foster MacLain: There's one thing about visitors everybody likes, not always their arriving, but, definitely their leaving.
- Karl Angermann: I'm glad you could sleep. Did you dream too?
- Erika Angermann: I only dream when I'm awake.
- Erika Angermann: What is your pleasure?
- Col. Dmitri Bucaron: Enemy with spirit. Beautiful enemy with spirit. I enjoy that.
- [tries to kiss Erika, but she resist]
- Col. Dmitri Bucaron: What? What? Would you rather be kissed by Sasha down there?
- Fritz Graubach: That flag of ours, up in the attic. If they see that, they'll kill us all. Give me your petticoat.
- Frau Berta Graubach: No.
- Fritz Graubach: Give me your petticoat!
- Frau Berta Graubach: No, I won't.
- Fritz Graubach: I want to make a flag out of it.
- Frau Berta Graubach: I'll freeze! I won't give you my petticoat. No!
- Fritz Graubach: [forcefully pulls off Berta's red petticoat] No time to lose!
- Frau Berta Graubach: [races after Fritz] You give it to me. You - you - give it back to me. Where are you going? Fritz! I want my petticoat. Now, give it back to me!
- Karl Angermann: From now on it will be safer for you not to be down here.
- Erika Angermann: What about you, Karl?
- Karl Angermann: At the moment, I'm more concerned about you. The soldiers will be here any minute. They've been in battle. The first place they look for whatever they need - or *want* - or things we try to hide from them will be down here. Come with me.
- Col. Dmitri Bucaron: You resent me. You have been taught to hate Russians.
- Erika Angermann: I don't resent you and I've never learned to hate.
- Col. Dmitri Bucaron: Don't talk to me about honor. What does a German know about honor? Germany has no honor left. I saved you from prison or *worse*. All I ask is that you return what I feel for you - and its not hate.
- [Erika walks away]
- Col. Dmitri Bucaron: Come here. You come here!
- Col. Dmitri Bucaron: I have shown you respect. In return, I demand respect.
- Erika Angermann: I do not give anything on demand.
- Col. Dmitri Bucaron: You're rich compared to millions of other fräuleins. You have good food, fine clothes, a fur, a man to protect you. What more do you want? You have everything to live for. Everything!
- Col. Dmitri Bucaron: I will marry you! For the first time I realize why you have been so distant, so far away. Because you are not like the other fräuleins. For you, love is not a business. For you love is sacred. It is forever. That is why we'll marry you. It is all clear to me now. I apologize for not having thought of it before. You will be my wife! The most beautiful wife of them all!
- Col. Dmitri Bucaron: Now we will drink. To the music, to the night, to all the nights before and to come. Huh? You not drinking.
- Erika Angermann: If you wish.
- Col. Dmitri Bucaron: Drink! When the arm bends, the mouth opens.
- Col. Dmitri Bucaron: You drink, but, you only get sober. You dance only with your feet. And you smile only with your lips.
- Erika Angermann: You are not pleased?
- Col. Dmitri Bucaron: We Russians, we drink with our hearts! We dance with our hearts and when we smile - we smile from inside. I shall now drink to us Russians.
- Lori the piano player: The Berlin merry-go-round. We run away from the Russians, we run after the Americans. I guess as long as we keep running, we stay alive.
- Maj. Foster MacLain: To list the dead is no problem. When it comes to the living in this country, they're the ones who are really buried.
- Lori the piano player: Look who's here, my trading partner.
- Erika Angermann: I'm afraid I haven't too much to trade this time.
- Lori the piano player: I have. Five or six pounds.
- [pats her bottom]
- Lori the piano player: I'd be glad to give you.
- Maj. Foster MacLain: We won the war with guns and planes. Now, we have to do it all over again with pencil and paper.
- Cpl. S. Hanks: Good night, fräulein. That is the way you pronounce it, isn't it?
- Erika Angermann: Yes.
- Cpl. S. Hanks: It's a nice word. I like it. Fräulein.
- Erika Angermann: It was a nice word. Lately its almost like being called a name.
- Lori the piano player: Illinois - Springfield. Minnesota - St. Paul. Wisconsin? Madison!
- Erika Angermann: Who is Madison?
- Lori the piano player: It's not a who, it's a capital. The capital of Wisconsin, if you must know.
- Erika Angermann: Do we have to know it?
- Lori the piano player: All these GIs, they like to talk about their home states. Knowing the capital is good for at least two drinks. New Jersey - Trenton. Why they have a Jersey City and make Trenton the capital of New Jersey, is beyond me.
- Lori the piano player: I decided I needed a change. So, I switched from vodka to bourbon. And its safer here. Americans don't smash glasses. They're always thirsty, mind you; but, they don't smash glasses.
- Cpl. S. Hanks: The city's full of entertainment like this. There're women wrestlers, women prizefighters.
- Maj. Foster MacLain: Well, I guess when you've gone through what they have, anything's good for a laugh.
- Lori the piano player: Oh, look at you. You're speechless. Who wouldn't be? Every night he sits at the club, the Major. Every day he sends flowers. You never even told me. Did you ever have a date with him? All right, don't answer. Listen, if he ever shows up again and you want to get rid of me, just give me the signal and the place is all yours.
- Maj. Foster MacLain: Next stop, Bingen. The famous Mäuseturm, Tower of the Mice. There it is. Bingen, just as the book said. The Tower of the Mice. Pretty romantic, isn't it? Can't you just see knights in shining armor with their maidens fair. The stuff operas made of. I'd like to know how many German girls have been here with their young Lieutenants.
- Erika Angermann: There it is: the rock of the Lorelei. There is a legend about that rock. About a maiden sitting there, smiling down to boatman who can't take their eyes off her.
- Maj. Foster MacLain: But, he better be careful or he'll crack his boat up on the rock.
- Erika Angermann: That's exactly what happened in the legend.
- Lt. Hugo Von Metzler: Yes, Erika, we survived, you and I both. But, the life we know's dead.
- Erika Angermann: But, just because our country is defeated, it doesn't mean that we have to accept defeat.
- Lt. Hugo Von Metzler: You're a woman. You can talk. But, I was an officer. Defeat is all I know. It's all around me. It's here.
- Erika Angermann: Of course, it's impossible for you to face it alone. It would be for me. But, together we can. I know it.
- Lt. Berdie Dubbin: I could be wrong in my judgement, Major. I'm sorry. The only time I ever saw - the young lady was in that place with all those other girls.
- Maj. Foster MacLain: Now, come now, girl. Don't you think this war of ours against the Germans should end, now that its over?
- Lt. Berdie Dubbin: As you say, Major.
- Lori the piano player: One thing for certain, your technique's better than mine. Full blast ahead's no good. Play hard to get, that's the passport to America.
- Erika Angermann: It must be Rheinfels coming up behind us. We mustn't miss it. They built it sometime during the 12th Century.
- Maj. Foster MacLain: I don't want to look at castles anymore and I've thrown away the guidebook. It's *you* I want to see.
- Erika Angermann: It seems as though everybody's packing me off to America. You want me to go. He wants me to go. Now, I want me to go.
- Maj. Foster MacLain: I'm trying to persuade her to come to America.
- Lt. Berdie Dubbin: America? Well, no Fräulein in Berlin expects anything like that these days. Why - why a half a dozen pair of nylons will do just as well.
- Maj. Foster MacLain: You should have heard the General when I told him. "Fräuleins. Fräuleins. Fräuleins. That's all I hear," he said. "Everybody wants to take fräuleins home."
- Erika Angermann: How did you manage to find me here?
- Maj. Foster MacLain: Well, frankly, I wasn't looking for you. Its was your father. The minute the shooting stopped I went back to the Rhine. The house was gone. Believe me, to find him again, I'd have gone to the ends of the earth.
- Erika Angermann: Where do you think you are now?