- Madam Europe: By the way, what play do you aim to do?
- Jim: Max, that's your department.
- Prof. Max: A pantomime. Why not... why not "The Sleeping Beauty"?
- Madam Europe: Uh-uh, not here. They don't like 'em sleeping.
- Jim: I know something that'll wake 'em up - "Salome."
- Madam Europe: "Salome"? Does she dance that good?
- Prof. Max: "That good"? Drinkman Wells will remember it forever.
- Salome: I'm so excited and nervous. It feels just like an opening night! I hope I don't forget my lines.
- Madam Europe: Well, I never forgot my lines, but I do remember a most embarrassing moment when I did forget my...
- Prof. Max: Uh-uh, Madam Europe.
- Madam Europe: "Tiara," I was about to say.
- Gen. Lee: What's your name, Lieutenant?
- Cleve: Cleve Blunt, Sir
- Gen. Lee: Where's your home?
- Cleve: Hopewell, Sir, in the Bull Run Mountain country.
- Gen. Lee: Then you must be Miss Patty Blunt's boy.
- Cleve: Yes, Sir.
- Gen. Lee: Well, you go home, Lieutenant. And tell your mother you must lay down your arms now and return to your books.
- Cleve: But I want to go on fighting, General - until we beat 'em.
- Gen. Lee: Peace hath her victories no less than war. There's an old hymn which says: "Chance and change are busy ever. Man decays but ages move". We must move with the ages, Cleve. There can be no standing still.