- Joel Carter: A wife's place is with her husband. When he's in Paris.
- Lieutenant Bill Gordon: Ah, but I'll be up at the front.
- Joel Carter: But you could come back over weekends.
- Lieutenant Bill Gordon: Or we could get the Germans to come right down to Paris, then I wouldn't have to leave you at all. No, darling, you can do just as much harm here as you could in Paris.
- Code Room Clerk: [to Lieutenant Gordon, who has just arrived for duty at the decoding room] When the enemy has something on the fire they fill the air with phony messages to cover up the real ones, so then we know that something *hot* is happening. But, we don't know what, so, the Army heckles the Intelligence Department. The Intelligence Department heckles us. We haven't got anybody to heckle. So, we heckle ourselves.
- de Segroff: [after Lieutenant Gordon has been shocked to see Joel bound and gagged and being used as a hostage] As a soldier you realize that an emergency requires emergency methods.
- Lieutenant Bill Gordon: I don't know any emergency that requires warring on women. I thought there was a code of decency even in war.
- de Segroff: Unfortunately, Lieutenant, the situation is too acute for the usual amenities.