- Amalia Brentani: Is she beautiful?
- Emilio Brentani: Yes, beautiful. Very beautiful, refined. A girl of the people, but without any vulgarity. She has a healthy, spontaneous joy. She could be more astute, but she's like a child. With a huge desire to live.
- Amalia Brentani: Is she honest?
- Emilio Brentani: Yes, very honest. Too much so.
- Amalia Brentani: Be careful, Emilio. Don't do anything stupid, please.
- Emilio Brentani: Come on, Amalia. Can't I flirt with a girl? She's a pretty girl. I like her.
- Emilio Brentani: You seem quite free.
- Angiolina Zarri: In what way?
- Emilio Brentani: Your parents aren't always with you, watching you. You can go out when you want, right?
- [first lines]
- Emilio Brentani: I really like you. But I don't want you to compromise yourself for me.
- Emilio Brentani: At almost 40 years old, I found myself with a desire for pleasure and love, and the bitterness of not having enjoyed either. This encounter promised to be a short and easy adventure. Like those I had heard and read about, but never experienced myself.
- Angiolina Zarri: This is the first time you've walked with me in the street.
- Emilio Brentani: Why do you look at everybody so?
- Angiolina Zarri: Eyes are meant for seeing, eh?
- Emilio Brentani: Poor Angiolina! You're truly honest. You have so little cunning. It'd be better to be less honest and more cunning. In exchange for the love I received, I decided to educate her, to teach her to know life and the art of taking advantage of it.
- Stefano Balli: Big Angie, are you coming to pose for me?
- Angiolina Zarri: Me? Pose?
- Stefano Balli: Dressed, dressed. I think you might be the right type.
- Angiolina Zarri: Oh, my teacher, so serious! What a sourpuss!
- Emilio Brentani: I'm not a sourpuss. I'm sad. I know I have no right. Make fun of me, too! You're absolutely correct. It's not like we're sleeping together.
- Angiolina Zarri: Keep your voice down! Do you have to say that? It's not an easy thing. If I do it once, it's for always.
- Amalia Brentani: Maybe it's love.
- Stefano Balli: Love? It's not love, Amalia. It's sex. You don't know that sex is a fleeting thing. He possesses a woman, then it's done. Am I shocking you?
- Amalia Brentani: No! It's just that you lose the habit of speaking about certain things. Even thinking about them - as if they were sins.
- Stefano Balli: Love was never a sin, Amalia. Love everyone and everything. Have energy, vitality, and life will be on your side.
- Angiolina Zarri: I promise I'll do it. But first, I want to be sure. When you find me a boyfriend, one who'll marry me - and assume the responsibility you won't take. I have to think about my family. I have to put myself - first. You're selfish. You want everything, but give nothing.
- Stefano Balli: Listen, what you call love crazy is just a sickness. A product of our decadent civilization. A real man can love two or three women at once, in the same way. Yes and with the heart and mind free! Totally free!
- Stefano Balli: What can't I do?
- Amalia Brentani: I bet every woman falls in love with him!
- Emilio Brentani: Amalia, please.
- Amalia Brentani: Just think how many things they must have done!
- Emilio Brentani: Amalia, please.
- Stefano Balli: Orgies! Every night!
- Angiolina Zarri: He's a good man.
- Stefano Balli: When it comes to goodness, he's more useful than I am.