- Miguel: [on assurance that a smuggling job's been completed] A friend left this, uh, note for you.
- Felix Bowers: [flipping through the money in the envelope] Our friend didn't have very much to say, did he?
- Miguel: What do you mean by that?
- Felix Bowers: I mean he wasn't very generous, was he?
- Miguel: There are many expenses; you know that as well as I do. Palms to be greased and people paid to turn the other way. It's getting harder every day.
- Felix Bowers: Well, you tell that friend if he can't be a little more communicative, that this is the last trip.
- Irena: Are you wanted by the police?
- Felix Bowers: Oh, I wouldn't go so far as to say that. Let's put it this way: if I *presented* myself to them, they would not *reject* me.
- Felix Bowers: I sowed my wild oats a long time ago. Been living off the crop ever since. Not very nutritious.
- Miguel: [to Felix] I'll talk to you. You're a reasonable man: your friend is a barbarian.
- Felix Bowers: Tony, you gonna sit here and hear your friend called a barbarian?
- Tony: Miguel, I forbid you to call this barbarian a barbarian.
- Felix Bowers: [nods] You're a true friend.
- Irena: I'm no good. I'm all worn out. I've been passed from hand to hand. I've had to submit to things that nice young American boys couldn't conceive of in their wildest nightmares. I've lived among the ruins. Armies have marched over me. Armies. I've been debased. I look in the mirror and I say, "What a lie." At first glance, a face looks like a face of a human being.
- Harbor Master: [watching sailors fight a fire] The American navy is at work.
- Dr. Sam Blake: What do they say?
- Harbor Master: They don't say anything. They just whistle through their teeth and call for Coca-Colas.
- Tony: If you were so anxious, why didn't you do something about it yourself?
- Felix Bowers: Don't think I wouldn't if I thought it would work, man. The lady just ain't interested. What's she gonna do with a beat up old bum like me? She's blonde, she's pretty, comes from a good family, and she's got a rich husband. She wants only the best. Tall, blue eyed, straight limbed, boys with curly hair and burly teeth.
- Jimmy Jean: That lady sure was icy.
- Felix Bowers: Yeah, but just not icy enough, Jimmy Jean. Not icy enough.
- Tony: Five hundred has a nice, wholesome ring to it. Doesn't it? Five Hundred?
- Felix Bowers: Yeah, seven hundred rings even better. It's too risky. a couple of cases of brandy or cigarettes is one thing; but, an illegal dame!
- Felix Bowers: If they ever catch us, they'll take the boat and lock us up and throw the key away.
- Tony: All right, they won't catch us.
- Felix Bowers: I've got a hunch, I don't feel so lucky.
- Tony: I feel lucky. We'll use my luck.
- Felix Bowers: Let's get out of here, Tony. I don't like the smell of this.
- Miguel: Money doesn't smell!
- Irena: I'll tell you all that's necessary. I'm coming from nowhere, illegally, I'm on my way to nowhere, equally illegally. Are you satisfied?
- Irena: I do not make immigration officers very happy. An immigration officer presumes that a woman who looks like me should be kept. And they prefer citizens of other countries to do the keeping.
- Tony: [to a bottle of rum] Oh, you're beautiful. Marry me. And we'll sail the seven seas and we'll see the tombs of the Pharaohs and we'll pull in at Hong Kong and Bangkok and Indianapolis, Indiana. And I'll be faithful to you from here to the last history. And I'll cover you with jewels and I'll drown you with champagne.
- Irena: You're stuck with me for a little while and I'm stuck with you. But, we don't have to make it any worse than it already is. Just tell me what you want me to do and I'll do it.
- Felix Bowers: Keep away from Tony, that's all. He's not for the likes of you.
- Irena: Why not?
- Felix Bowers: I've known women like you. You've had a little bad luck and you're beautiful enough to make everybody you touch pay for it.
- Irena: What makes you think he'd be interested?
- Felix Bowers: I saw that gay frolic on the beach today. The sirens should have gone off for Tony right then. Enemy approaching. Take cover.
- Irena: He's a big boy. He can take care of himself.
- Felix Bowers: Nobody can take care of himself; so, stay away from him. Stop probing him with those sad, pitiful, calculating, dark eyes. Keep those sweet poisonous hands off of him. You've got nothing for him.
- Tony: You defeat me! I don't know what you're aiming at. Are you trying to get chosen for the brute of the month club or something?
- Tony: I got something for ya.
- Irena: Thank you. Well, Tony...
- Tony: Well, open it up. Open it. A native blouse. I thought with your color hair it might - It's very gay.
- Irena: Very gay.
- Tony: Yeah, try it on. I wasn't too sure about the - measurements. Go ahead! Try it on. The lady in the shop says it's bound to have a startling affect on a redhead.
- Felix Bowers: [sitting in a barber shop] Welcome. Hang around. The next number on the program is the Beethoven Ninth.
- Tony: Yeah, I want to talk to you.
- Felix Bowers: Well, I've got a date to go to a cock fight in ten minutes. If you leave your name with the secretary, she might be able to arrange something for later on in the week.
- Felix Bowers: Have a drink.
- Tony: I don't want anything to drink.
- Felix Bowers: You want to listen to a medical fact? In this climate, sobriety kills more people per year than heart trouble, motor accidents or crimes of passion combined.
- Tony: Stop being so gay, I'm serious.
- Felix Bowers: Gay? Me? I'm so sad the little dogs howl in despair when they see me.
- Dr. Sam Blake: Have you seen this picture before?
- Tony: Yeah, the lady is my Aunt Clara and the man is my Sunday school teacher and the colored gentleman played second base for me when I managed the New York Giants.
- Felix Bowers: I never wanted anything so bad in my whole life, Tony. Maybe it was because we were so much alike. She got her's in Berlin. My whole life has been Berlin.
- Tony: I'm gonna' marry her, Felix.
- Felix Bowers: Of course. She's no good. She'll cheat ya', she'll pull ya' down... Everywhere you go you'll find men who'll look at you and laugh and say, "Hey, look at what our old friend Irena's gotten hold of now." She'll ruin ya'. Once she gets a better offer she'll leave ya'. So, naturally, you're gonna' marry her.
- Dr. Sam Blake: What about the fire? Are they putting it out?
- Captain of Ulysses: It is a fire of raw rubber, monsieur. One does not "put out" a fire of raw rubber! Sometimes with luck - with a great deal of luck - one puts such a fire under control... infrequently.
- [walks away]
- Dr. Sam Blake: What's the matter with him?
- Harbor Master: He's an important man, and an unpleasant decision faces him. Therefore he must try and make everyone else feel as unpleasant as he does.
- Irena: What have women done to you?
- Felix Bowers: I don't regard women in the plural. I'm old-fashioned. I regard women one by one.
- Felix Bowers: You understand, Irena, that this is not the Queen Mary. There'll be no steward aboard to bring you your morning tea.
- Irena: I've put up with worse.
- Felix Bowers: You'll be alone on a not very large boat with three men with low, brutish manners.