- La Santona: [Addressing a young man seated before her, apparently seeking advice on his love life] You must plant your seeds in another field. Do you understand what I mean?
- Young man seeking advice: No, I don't understand.
- La Santona: It's simple, my boy. What good is planting seeds if the soil rejects them? You plant, but don't gather. Understand?
- Young man seeking advice: I haven't understood a word.
- La Santona: [Becoming impatient] She doesn't love you! Forget her!
- La Santona: [Pausing for effect] Dear boy, you're very ugly. Yes, ugly. There are so many other women... Go and plow another field!
- Antonio Ricci: [At a restaurant, he and his son notice a nearby table occupied by an apparently well-off family who are eating quite well] To eat like that, you'd have to earn at least a million a month.
- Amateur Actor: [singing] If you really, really loved me, You'd make sure I wasn't taken for a ride by other people.
- Baiocco: People.
- Amateur Actor: People.
- Baiocco: People.
- Amateur Actor: People.
- Baiocco: People.
- La Santona: What have they stolen?
- Antonio Ricci: My bike.
- La Santona: What can I say? I can only tell you what I see. Listen: you'll find it straight away or not at all. Understand? You'll find it straight away or not at all. Keep your eyes open.
- Antonio Ricci: Where, straight away?
- La Santona: How should I know? Go and try to understand what I said. You'll find it straight away or not at all.
- Employment Officer: Hey, Ricci, remember your bike! You have to have a bike.
- Antonio Ricci: A bike? I have and I haven't. I can't get my hands on it right now. Perhaps in a few days time.
- Employment Officer: You need one straight away or they won't take you on.
- Antonio Ricci: I can do it on foot for the first few days.
- Employment Officer: If you haven't got a bike, you'll have to let someone else take it.
- Employment Officer: Have you got a bike or haven't you?
- Antonio Ricci: I've got one. I've got one.
- Employment Officer: Remember if you haven't got a bike, there's nothing doing, right?
- Antonio Ricci: Think I'm going to wait another two years? I'll be there with a bike.
- Antonio Ricci: Baiocchi. You've got to help me. I've got to get my bike back.
- Baiocco: Easier said than done.
- Meniconi, the Street Sweeper: It always rains on Sunday. You finish at one and you have to stay shut up indoors... I can't stand what's on at the cinema, I really can't stand it.
- Antonio Ricci: [to Bruno] Do you fancy a pizza? Come on, then! Come on, let's go! What the hell. We might as well go out in style. What's the point in worrying about it all?
- Antonio Ricci: Don't you want anything to drink? If your mother were to see you! But we're going to do what we want!
- Bike Painter: We're all honest here in Piazza Vittorio!
- Bagonghi: Yeahhh!
- Bike Painter: What d'ya mean, "Yeaaah"?
- Bagonghi: Nyaaaah!