- Christine: [singing] This day and age we're living in, Gives cause for apprehension, Like speed and new invention, And things like third dimension, I get a trifle weary, Of Mr. Einstein's theory, So we must get out and live a bit, Relax relieve the tension...
- The Duchess Caroline: You must realize we can't do anything foolish now.
- Geoffrey - Duke of Lanbourne: I detest you.
- 1st Hooker: Hi. You boys waitin' for us?
- Dixon: Yeah. Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah. Come on. Come on. Come in. Come in.
- Peter McDermott: How do you feel?
- Warren Trent: LIke a man trying to hold up his britches with one hand and climb a tree with the other.
- Curtis O'Keefe: I've got a couple of more calls to make. I won't be long. Will you be awake?
- Jeanne Rochefort: Of course.
- [Curtis kisses her ear, gets out of bed, pats her behind]
- Christine: [singing] This year, I can hear, Guitar Johnny playing, Strange they should be saying, What your heart, Forgot to say, And this year, Everywhere I go, There is you, In the misty morning meadows, You reached out to me, Warm and sweet and tender, Then I remember more, Than anyone, Anything, Any love before...
- Detective Dupere: I got lots of friends.
- The Duchess Caroline: Do you really?
- Detective Dupere: Yeah. I got one at a place across the river, your husband's been visiting quite often - on the quiet. I was talking to my friend last night. It seems your husband was there like you might say - stoned, smashed.
- The Duchess Caroline: Yes, yes. I understand.
- Curtis O'Keefe: Old style hospitality doesn't count any more. Oh, a few of the smaller houses might hand on to that, but, a big house like yours has to compete. And you can't compete, unless you think the way I do.
- Warren Trent: I'll continue to think for myself for awhile. There's still plenty of people who like to travel first class.
- Curtis O'Keefe: First class is dead, Warren. Finished! First class means traveling for the pleasure of traveling. The jet plane killed all that. The great luxury trains are gone. The big ships are designed for tourist class. The highways are jammed. There is no pleasure in the act of traveling any more.
- Curtis O'Keefe: I have a blue print for the future. A completely automated hotel. Your baggage will arrive by high-speed conveyor. Everything will be done by conveyor. Room service, laundry, valet, even the bill, will be presented by conveyor.
- Warren Trent: You're talking about a hotel for automatons with punch card brains and lubricants for blood. No, no. There'll still be people Curtis. And there'll still be innkeepers with pride in their houses and a personal interest in their guests. The Saint Gregory will still be here.
- Curtis O'Keefe: If it's still here, it won't be the same.
- Warren Trent: The same.
- Detective Dupere: I'd like to help you out.
- The Duchess Caroline: How very generous of you.
- Detective Dupere: I thought you might be the generous one.
- Detective Dupere: What does a smart man like me call a Duchess?
- The Duchess Caroline: What do you call any woman?
- Detective Dupere: I'll think of something.
- Geoffrey - Duke of Lanbourne: Are you sure he's only doing it for the money?
- The Duchess Caroline: Well, certainly. What other possible reason...
- Geoffrey - Duke of Lanbourne: Come off it Caroline. I know how you operate. A smile that means so much more. A sultry glance over your shoulder. A turn of the hips. You do it all so well.
- Jeanne Rochefort: I once had a place in Paris almost like this. It was the first place of my own I'd ever had. It was warm and pretty and bright. I was in love. It was a long time ago.
- Peter McDermott: It couldn't have been that long ago.
- Jeanne Rochefort: Oh yes, it was. I was 17 and I'm 22 now.
- Peter McDermott: In New Orleans there's a racket called a B girl routine. A B girl takes a key from a man and promises to come to his room later and then she gives the key to a professional hotel thief. I was just wondering if you happened to be in the Quarter last night, maybe you dropped your...
- Kilbrick: Now, wait a minute, wait a minute. I got a plane to catch. I can't get mixed up in any police investigation. I don't know anything about any B girls! I got a wife. Let's just forget it.
- Jeanne Rochefort: I am sorry. I cry very easily - at nothing at all. Its a trick to make men sympathetic, you see. You are sympathetic now and before you were afraid of me.
- Bailey: [on the phone] Sir, I've got a bit of a problem down here.
- Warren Trent: I'm busy. Get Pete.
- Bailey: Pete isn't here right now. There's a colored couple here with a confirmed reservation.
- Warren Trent: Bailey, I don't have to tell you the policy of this Hotel. You've known it for 20 years.
- Jeanne Rochefort: You are only here for curiosity and I'm only here as a spy. Now, what shall we do?
- Christine: Something for you Pete?
- Peter McDermott: Well, how's about a little something for a troubled spirit?
- Christine: Your's?
- [singing]
- Christine: Alone together, Beyond the crowd, Above the world, And not too proud...
- Peter McDermott: Bailey just told me about the negro couple you turned away. Now, I want to... find them and give them a room.
- Warren Trent: What?
- Peter McDermott: We've been over this a dozen times. You knew it was going to happen sooner or later. You promised me you'd roll with this.
- Warren Trent: Well, I'm not gonna roll with it until they make me. Why, I'd lose all my own standbys if I started lettin' colored people in the Hotel.
- Peter McDermott: We've got statistics on all of these segged hotels. Their clientele hasn't changed one half of one percent!
- Warren Trent: Now, look, Pete...
- Peter McDermott: Now, Warren! If this is a civil rights action it'll be all over the newspapers tomorrow. Laswell's union has a large membership of negroes. He can't put money into a business were they turn negroes away! He's gonna blow the whistle on our deal.
- Warren Trent: Well, why weren't you here to handle it for me? You know I don't understand things like unions, civil rights, indoor ballgames, I don't understand the whole damn world anymore. That's what I don't understand.
- Peter McDermott: I do not want any trouble for the hotel.
- Tousaint: Does that mean that the bars against negroes are down here?
- Peter McDermott: It does.
- Tousaint: How about Mr. Trent?
- Peter McDermott: He's been, what you might call, Overcome.