- Cecilia Talbot: [on being ordered to observe the blackout] Oh dear! It's just like the French Revolution!
- Elliott Fulton: You're a proud woman, Mrs Hadley. But I think you'll find that pride's not very good company, when you're lonely.
- Cecilia Talbot: [to Stella] I just wanted to know what stand I should take about cherry trees. They're so decorative - but they are Japanese.
- Stella Hadley: Can't you even be with us on Christmas Eve?
- Patricia Hadley: I wish I could. I'm sorry, Mother, but it's Christmas Eve for the soldiers too.
- Bennett: [conspiratorially] I just wanted to tell you. I didn't mention it to Mrs Hadley, because I thought it might unduly upset her. But, if I should be missing some evening, I want you to understand...
- Patricia Hadley: Why, Bennett, you sound like an international spy!
- Bennett: No, an air-raid warden!
- Michael Fitzpatrick: What's your name?
- Patricia Hadley: Pat.
- Michael Fitzpatrick: Mine's Mike. We ought to get together.
- Patricia Hadley: You could tell her that you're glad to be drafted, that you wanted to go?
- Theodore Hadley: [sarcastically] Now, you wouldn't want me to lie to Mother!
- Patricia Hadley: Why not? You've been doing it since you were old enough to talk. You've lied, and she's believed every lie you've ever told her.
- Theodore Hadley: Now, look, I don't have to take that from you!
- Patricia Hadley: No, you don't. It just so happens that I'm terribly fond of you. And I think if you ever stood on your own feet, you could probably go places.
- [He storms out]
- Patricia Hadley: Ted! Ted! Ted! Where are you going?
- Theodore Hadley: Places.
- Patricia Hadley: I didn't mean saloons!
- Theodore Hadley: Well I did!
- Theodore Hadley: He's a real gent.
- Stella Hadley: Gentleman, darling. You mustn't let the army vulgarise you.
- Theodore Hadley: You needn't worry about me. There's a special providence that watches over drunks.
- Patricia Hadley: What about ex-drunks?
- Theodore Hadley: I wouldn't know. I've never been one.
- Patricia Hadley: I wish I could say something.
- Theodore Hadley: You can say good night. I want to be alone with my new character. Between us I'm afraid he's going to bore the pants off me
- Michael Fitzpatrick: Pat, this war can't last forever. Will you wait for me.
- Patricia Hadley: Of course not.
- Michael Fitzpatrick: Oh, I'm sorry. I though maybe you cared enough.
- Patricia Hadley: I care too darned much. Mike, marry me before you leave, or take the consequences!
- Michael Fitzpatrick: Was that a proposal?
- Patricia Hadley: It sounded like one to me!
- Michael Fitzpatrick: Well, are you acquainted yet?
- Mrs. Michael Fitzpatrick: Acquainted? I'm almost like her own mother!
- Mrs. Michael Fitzpatrick: There's a war goin' on, Mrs Hadley, an' there's hundreds and thousands of wives and mothers needin' all the courage they can get. Their men can't all win the DFC, but they're fightin' just the same, and it's up to you to give them a message of hope and faith. You've got no private life any more - you belong to those wives and mothers.