- Lily Czepanek: I can't take my clothes off!
- Richard Waldow: Why? Why can't you?
- Lily Czepanek: Why, I'd, I'd be undressed!
- Lily Czepanek: My father was a good man. Every night - I read to him - from this Bible.
- Mrs. Rasmussen: The Lamentations of Job, no doubt.
- Lily Czepanek: No. The Song of Solomon. He loved it best.
- Mrs. Rasmussen: I don't remember the Song of Solomon. But, knowing your father I imagine there was something dirty in it.
- Lily Czepanek: A Song of Songs is beautiful.
- Mrs. Rasmussen: A figure like that will get you into trouble, if you're not careful. You'll bear watching.
- Mrs. Rasmussen: My precious brother, I didn't even like him, dies. And leaves me his daughter - with nine petticoats and a Bible. Does he leave any money? Huh! Not a pfennig!
- Lily Czepanek: "By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth. I will seek him - whom my soul loveth."
- Richard Waldow: Stand up, again. Stand up. I want to see you.
- Lily Czepanek: No! I will not.
- Richard Waldow: Oh, I see. You think I'm interested in your legs. Well, I'm not. At least not just as legs. My dear child, if you've seen as many legs as I have, you'd get more excited about a pair of crutches! I'm a sculptor, my dear. A sculptor. Oh, that is, I'm supposed to be. And there was something about you, as you stood there, that was almost - an idea.
- Richard Waldow: I tell you what, you come over and pose for me. Perhaps you'll bring me inspiration.
- Lily Czepanek: No, thank you.
- Richard Waldow: How about eight o'clock?
- Lily Czepanek: I wouldn't wait if I were you.
- Richard Waldow: Oh, no, no, no. You must come. You know, I believe I could get something really interesting. Oh, please come, please come.
- Richard Waldow: I've been making a sketch of you. You want to see yourself?
- Lily Czepanek: Oh, yes!
- [Richard shows her the sketch]
- Lily Czepanek: Oh! I haven't any clothes on.
- Richard Waldow: Clothes? Do you think I model people with their clothes on?
- Lily Czepanek: But, how did you know I was like that?
- Richard Waldow: And just what does that mean?
- Lily Czepanek: I mean, it is me and it isn't me.
- Lily Czepanek: [looking at a sketch of herself] It's wonderful! I mean, it's the way I want to be. It's me as I dream of me. It's the girl in the Song of Songs.
- Richard Waldow: Who?
- Lily Czepanek: The girl in the Song of Songs. She's in the Bible.
- Richard Waldow: The Bible?
- Lily Czepanek: She's the girl who feels in her heart that somewhere the perfect love is waiting for her. She says, "I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved saying, Open to me, my love, my undefiled."
- Richard Waldow: Mercy! Honest.
- Lily Czepanek: Oh, I know what she means. I know it! Because I feel it inside. I mean, "It is the voice of my beloved." That's what I mean.
- Richard Waldow: You mustn't think of me as a man! Don't you realize that? Why, a model means no more to me than a tree. All I see is the - the thing she creates.
- Richard Waldow: Oh, there you are. That's right. That's right. Come on. Step up there. You can drop the smock.
- Lily Czepanek: It's cold.
- Lily Czepanek: I don't understand how I ever got into this.
- Richard Waldow: Now, look here. Wait a minute. Wait a minute and take it easy. You don't have to do this, you know, if you don't want to. Well, all right. You put your clothes on and go home.
- Lily Czepanek: No. I said I'd do it - and I will do it.
- [drops the smock]
- Richard Waldow: That's the way to talk. Good! Good!
- Mrs. Rasmussen: I says, she sometimes takes a little rum with her tea. And I said I see no harm if you care to send her some. And, it's the very best kind. It comes from Jamaica! I suppose you never heard of Jamaica.
- Lily Czepanek: No, Tante Rasmussen.
- Mrs. Rasmussen: It's a place in Asia Minor.
- Lily Czepanek: Oh, smell that.
- Richard Waldow: What?
- Lily Czepanek: The grass and the earth. Oh, smell the grass.
- Richard Waldow: I don't smell anything.
- Lily Czepanek: Oh, you're so funny darling. Look what he called grass. Now, you've got to bury your nose in it! You've got to get into the ground. You've just got to be grass.
- Richard Waldow: You've got Spring Fever.
- Lily Czepanek: When I put my hands on the earth, it's you I'm touching. The wind on my face, is your kisses. You are in everything I think and feel and do - and will be, until I die.
- Lily Czepanek: "Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm, for love - is strong as death."
- Baron von Merzbach: It would amuse me to devote the rest of my days to - to her. To mold the real Lily, just as you have this statue. To make her my masterpiece - just as I think you've made this yours.
- Richard Waldow: How could I give her to you even if I wanted to? And I don't.
- Baron von Merzbach: All I ask is that you step aside and give me a chance with Lily.
- Richard Waldow: Oh, this is obscene.
- Baron von Merzbach: Obscene? Because I'm not as young as you? Obscene? Because I consider her welfare and you don't? Obscene? Because I'm willing to marry her - and you are not? Yes - stare. That's how I want her! Enough to make her the Baroness von Merzbach. Now, tell me again what I'm asking - is obscene.
- Mrs. Rasmussen: I warned you. I've appealed to your better nature. I've scolded you. I've - I've even beaten you. And all to no avail. Now there's nothing left, but to put you out.
- Lily Czepanek: Please, maybe I was wrong. But, if you let me explain...
- Mrs. Rasmussen: I'm not interested in the details of your sin.
- Lily Czepanek: Sin? Oh, it wasn't sin.
- Mrs. Rasmussen: Get out! Get out.
- Baron von Merzbach: He's an agriculturalist. Good blood though. His father carried a sword. But, he choose the plow.
- Baron von Merzbach: No supper. No supper. But, a glass of champagne might be acceptable.
- [toast]
- Baron von Merzbach: To our wedding night. Come, come. Drink up, drink up.
- Lily Czepanek: I'm not used to champagne. It will make me dizzy.
- Baron von Merzbach: All the better. All the better.
- Baron von Merzbach: You've done very well, Lily. I'm very, very proud of you. Next month, I'm going to give you a Grand Ball!
- Baron von Merzbach: Look, here! Why do you follow us about all the time, sticking your nose in at unexpected moments? Are you jealous of my wife?
- Fräulein Von Schwertfeger: I might have been - once.
- Walter Von Prell: There's nothing in this world I wouldn't do for you.
- Lily Czepanek: Is this part of my riding lesson?
- Baron von Merzbach: I've done something of a job, if I may say so. Yes. You modeled her in marble, I modeled her in the flesh, so to speak. I'm a bit of an artist myself.
- Baron von Merzbach: You'll play for Waldow after dinner, won't you, my dear?
- Lily Czepanek: If you like it.
- Baron von Merzbach: Ah! There's a wife for me!
- Richard Waldow: I don't know where else to look.
- Mrs. Rasmussen: Have you tried the gutter? That's where girls like her - end up.
- Call Girl: Don't tell me men are human, are they, Lily?
- Lily Czepanek: They're the only animals that have money and buy champagne.
- Lily Czepanek: [singing] Johnny, when will your birthday be, Reserve that night for me, Just me and you. Johnny, we'll disconnect the phone, And when we're all alone, We'll have a lot - to do. Oh, Johnny, I've got to celebrate, And I can hardly wait, Until we do. Johnny, I hope you realize, That there's a big surprise, In store for you. Johnny, I need your sympathy, There's something wrong with me, I can't say no...
- Richard Waldow: One makes mistakes. One does things. Heaven knows why. I was wrong. But, need one suffer forever for one mistake?
- Richard Waldow: A Song of Songs. Don't you remember? "I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved."
- Lily Czepanek: No. "I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I called him, but he made no answer. The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me." They took away my veil from me.
- [cries]
- [last lines]
- Richard Waldow: That's all right, my dear. That's all right. Let it go. We'll begin again. Do you remember long ago, when we climbed a hill - into the sky? Well, we'll climb again, now. We'll find the sky, perhaps.