- Adam Belinski: In Hyde Park, for instance, some people like to feed nuts to the squirrels. But if it makes you happy to feed squirrels to the nuts, who am I to say, "nuts to the squirrels?"
- Adam Belinski: No, Sir Henry. I know Hitler.
- Sir Henry Carmel: Oh, yes, he's written a book, hasn't he?
- Adam Belinski: Yes.
- Sir Henry Carmel: Big success, isn't it?
- Adam Belinski: Very big.
- Sir Henry Carmel: Well, what more does he want? Why doesn't he lie down and keep quiet?
- Adam Belinski: Well, if you really want to know, Sir Henry, read the book.
- Sir Henry Carmel: Sort of an outdoor book, isn't it? What's it called? Oh yes, "My Camp".
- Sir Henry Carmel: Well, she needn't have dropped the platter and insulted my friend. What was it she said to you?
- Syrette: I remember very well, sir. It was, if I may take the liberty of repeating it, 'Nuts to the squirrels.'
- Sir Henry Carmel: Doesn't make sense!
- Adam Belinski: No, it doesn't. It should be 'Squirrels to the nuts.' But I have an open mind, and if someone says to me 'Nuts to the squirrels,' I accept it. You may be inclined to say that to me yourself some day, when you know me better - and I'm not so sure that you will include the 'squirrels.'
- Sir Henry Carmel: [shaking his head] That's much too deep for me.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: Why do people go to cocktail parties?
- Andrew Carmel: Because people give cocktail parties.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: Why do people give them?
- John Frewen: Because people go to them.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: It's a vicious circle... a perpetual motion.
- Andrew Carmel: It's depressing. Parties and people laughing with Europe on the brink.
- John Frewen: Yes, Hitler in Vienna and Prague and people go around having fun.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: Oh, I'm so tired of hearing about Hitler and Mussolini and...
- Andrew Carmel: Betty, I'm surprised! You talk like a superficial girl who thinks of nothing but her pink and white complexion.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: You seemed to like it until Hitler came between us.
- Andrew Carmel: I... I still do.
- John Frewen: Oh, intensely, Betty.
- Andrew Carmel: But you must realize we're on the verge of a war.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: Well then, stop talking and do something about it.
- Andrew Carmel: I have. I've written a letter to the Times.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: Then there's nothing to worry about.
- Andrew Carmel: [hearing news of the war] I intend to write another letter to the Times.
- Adam Belinski: Good.
- Andrew Carmel: [uncertainly] No... No, I'll join the R.A.F.
- Adam Belinski: Better... join the R.A.F, and rise above the Times.
- Adam Belinski: You couldn't have prescribed a better sedative than yourself!
- Jonathan Wilson: Thank you Sir.
- Adam Belinski: Not at all.
- Jonathan Wilson: It may interest you to know that after the use of my nasal bath the Marquis Rockamere, a distinguished speaker, was for the first time clearly understood when he addressed the House of Lords last week.
- Cluny Brown: You must never become a victim of my circumstances, and, if you should ever seem romantic to me - don't hesitate. Just kick me.
- Adam Belinski: Yes, let's kick each other.
- Adam Belinski: I would build you the most beautiful mansion, with the most exquisite and complicated plumbing, I would hand you a hammer, and say "Ladies and Gentlemen, Madame Cluny Belinski is about to put the pipes in their place".
- Jonathan Wilson: Mother's taken a great liking to you.
- Cluny Brown: How do you know? She didn't say anything.
- Jonathan Wilson: That's the point. Mother doesn't waste words on flattery. If she speaks it's to correct faults.
- Adam Belinski: Nobody can tell you where your place is. Where is my place? Where is everybody's place? I'll tell you where it is. Wherever you're happy - that's your place. And happiness is a matter of purely personal adjustment to your environment. You're the sole judge. In Hyde Park, for instance, some people like to feed nuts to the squirrels. But if it makes you happy to feed squirrels to the nuts, who am I to say, "nuts to the squirrels?"
- Cluny Brown: I can't quite describe it. I feel chirrupy.
- Hilary Ames: Chirrupy? I don't ever remember feeling chirrupy.
- Adam Belinski: I'm afraid you never will, my dear Ames. There is not a chirrup in you.
- Adam Belinski: When the lower classes start throwing away pound notes, the upper classes better look out.
- John Frewen: Well, I've made up my mind. I shall ask her once or twice more. Then I shall wash my hands of her.
- Cluny Brown: Uncle Arn, do you know why girls leave home? Girls leave home because they're thrown out.
- Cluny Brown: It's wonderful how a dog can bring people together isn't it?
- Col. Charles Duff Graham: Yes, yes, yes. So it 'tis. Uh, ha, ha, I never thought of that.
- Lady Alice Carmel: Now, don't go all to pieces Andrew. If England must produce Belinskis, why we will produce Belinskis. Britain has never failed. Now have your tea, dear.
- Sir Henry Carmel: You mean the beggar's broke?
- Andrew Carmel: Oh, you can't call a man broke just because he hasn't any money.
- Lady Alice Carmel: May I come in, my dear?
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: Of course, Lady Carmel.
- [they walk into Betty's bedroom]
- Lady Alice Carmel: Get back into bed, Elizabeth.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: Yes, Lady Carmel.
- [she gets into bed and Lady Alice sits beside her on the bed]
- Lady Alice Carmel: You know, my dear, you ought to get married.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: Do you think so, Lady Carmel?
- Lady Alice Carmel: Quite definitely, my dear.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: Yes, Lady Carmel.
- Lady Alice Carmel: Are you going to marry Andrew?
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: Yes, Lady Carmel.
- Lady Alice Carmel: Then I think you should tell him so, because he's getting quite nervous.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: I'll tell him tomorrow.
- Lady Alice Carmel: Thank you, Elizabeth.
- Cluny Brown: Mr. Wilson had a long talk with me afterwards. He told me what he thought of me. Some of it was in Latin.
- Adam Belinski: You will never have to serve three meals a day again. On the other hand, you might not have three meals a day.
- Hilary Ames: Hang it all. If plumbing's going to make a go of it in this country, the plumbers jolly well better get into the spirit of the thing.
- Hilary Ames: I'm expecting 50 guests, including such people as the honorable Betty Cream, and she doesn't go everywhere you know?
- Adam Belinski: You're the most selfish man I've ever seen.
- Hilary Ames: What?
- Adam Belinski: You don't even know me, and already you're not interested in me.
- Adam Belinski: All you think about is the honorable Betty Cream. Why don't you ask me about my landlady? Is she humane? Or does she want the rent? Do you know, or do you care? No!
- Hilary Ames: But look here, are you a plumber?
- Cluny Brown: Oh, no. But I've been around pipes and sewers and taps and things, ever since I came to live with Uncle Arn. And, of course, I've watched him work. He's a good plumber. But if you ask me, much too conservative.
- Adam Belinski: My dear Ames, where is the gypsy in you? Where is your sense of adventure? Are you the type of man who puts on his pants before he answers the telephone?
- Adam Belinski: What if the thing does go wrong. Let's assume the whole place gets flooded, and there is no party. You save your liquor. Is that bad? But if the girl succeeds...
- Cluny Brown: Please, sir, do let me.
- Hilary Ames: Why yes, I'll do it. Yes, I'll do it. Come on. Relieve the drain, relieve the strain, eh?
- Adam Belinski: That's very interesting. You don't seem to be inhibited. Tell to me more specific - what made you think you were out of place?
- Cluny Brown: Oh, I don't think I was. It's Uncle Arn. He's always telling me, "Cluny Brown, you don't know your place."
- Cluny Brown: Oh, but Uncle Arn, these gentlemen have been so nice to me.
- Uncle Arn Porritt: There ya go again. Takin' advantage of it. You don't know yer place...
- Cluny Brown: But Uncle Arn, what is my place? What's anybody's place? What's your place? If you wanna feed nuts to the squirrels, what have I to say to you? Do you?
- John Frewen: Everyone makes such an absurd fuss over her. She's simply intolerable.
- Andrew Carmel: She has the worst manners of any girl I know.
- John Frewen: She's cold, conceited and callous...
- Andrew Carmel: You, uh, ask her to marry you lately?
- John Frewen: Day before yesterday.
- Andrew Carmel: What'd she say?
- John Frewen: She said "No," as usual. She doesn't stop to think. She hasn't any brains.
- Andrew Carmel: If she turned me down once, I don't think I'd ever ask her again.
- Andrew Carmel: [recognizing Belinski asleep on the bed] Good heavens!
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: What's the matter?
- Andrew Carmel: It's Belinski.
- John Frewen: Not Adam Belinski?
- Andrew Carmel: Yes, Adam Belinski.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: Is he a gangster?
- Andrew Carmel: Don't be an idiot, Betty. He's a Czech.
- John Frewen: He's a great man. He's famous.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: Well, whatever for?
- Andrew Carmel: He's a writer. A professor at Prague. One of Hitler's worst enemies.
- John Frewen: That's why the Nazis - he's probably just a jump ahead of them now. I wonder how he got to London.
- Andrew Carmel: The underground, no doubt.
- John Frewen: What a man.
- Andrew Carmel: He looks everything like his pictures. Better in fact. Nobler. Much nobler.
- John Frewen: More serene.
- Elizabeth 'Betty' Cream: And he snores.
- Sir Henry Carmel: You mean to tell me young girls go in for plumbing nowadays?
- Cluny Brown: It's great fun, and it does everybody so much good.
- Sir Henry Carmel: By George, when I was a young man, we never even discussed plumbing. As a matter of fact, we didn't have any.
- Cluny Brown: [to Sir Henry and Lady Alice] You're so much nicer than I thought. In fact, I didn't think you'd be nice at all.
- Syrette: Shall I leave, Mrs. Maile?
- Mrs. Maile: Please don't, Mr. Syrette. I'd appreciate your opinion in the matter.
- Syrette: And may I say, I agree with you completely, Mrs. Maile?
- Mrs. Maile: I knew you would, Mr. Syrette.
- Mrs. Maile: But, before you go, if I haven't made myself quite clear.
- Cluny Brown: Oh, you've made yourself quite clear. I understand perfectly. For instance, if I feel like - what was it the gentleman said? Oh, yes, if I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this isn't the place for it.
- Andrew Carmel: Professor, we both feel that the 20 pounds you were gracious to accept is most inadequate.
- John Frewen: Most!
- Andrew Carmel: Would you reconsider and take 50? We'd feel much better about it.
- John Frewen: Oh, much better.
- Adam Belinski: However, should the occasion arise when I need 30 additional pounds, you will give it to me, and nobody else.
- Andrew Carmel: Is that a promise?
- Adam Belinski: My word of honor.
- John Frewen: Oh, we appreciate this.
- Andrew Carmel: He's fighting for a new and better world?
- Sir Henry Carmel: What for?
- Andrew Carmel: What for? Haven't you heard of the Nazis?
- Sir Henry Carmel: Oh yes, German chaps. Always wanted to see one. Send him down, by all means.
- Andrew Carmel: Father, he isn't a Nazi. He's fighting the Nazis. He's a Czech. The Nazis are after him.
- Andrew Carmel: Battleships and tanks won't help you. Believe me, England won't be safe until we produce our own Belinskis.
- Sir Henry Carmel: What the devil are Belinskis?
- Andrew Carmel: What the devil are Belinskis? Oh, I give up... what are Belinskis?
- Sir Henry Carmel: I say, Syrette, what's the fellow's name again?
- Lady Alice Carmel: It is hard to remember. So many foreigners do have foreign names, don't they?
- Adam Belinski: I have no dinner jacket, Sir Henry. I couldn't bear to face you in a lounge suit across the dinner table.
- Sir Henry Carmel: Well, uh, wore a lounge suit myself once at dinner - in Naples. Went slumming. Didn't want to shock the natives.