- Sadie Thompson: [screaming at Alfred Davidson] Was I doing you any harm? You bloodthirsty buzzard! Was I? Who gave you the right to pass judgement on me? You psalm-singing louse! You'd tear out your own mother's heart, if she didn't agree with you, and call it saving her soul!
- Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara: Where do you hail from Sadie?
- Sadie Thompson: San Francisco.
- Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara: That's funny - - my best pal married a girl from San Francisco.
- Sadie Thompson: What part of San Francisco?
- Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara: Where they hang out the red lanterns.
- Sadie Thompson: [thoughtfully] Are they happy?
- Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara: Sure! 'Sfunny but them that kicks the highest often settles down the hardest.
- Sadie Thompson: Where is your mercy? You don't know what I've suffered - you don't care - and you call yourself a Christian!
- Title Card: Pago Pago - in the sultry South Seas - where there is no need for bed clothes - yet the rain comes down in sheets... and a detachment of U.S. Marines spend weary months of exile from white men - and white women.
- Sadie Thompson: Smile, Bozo, smile, for no matter how tough it is today it's bound to be worse tomorrow.
- Title Card: Ameena, a typical South Sea beauty - not lazy - just born tired.
- Alfred Davidson: The morals of the island are pretty bad, but I've made the governor understand that things have got to be cleaned up.
- Alfred Davidson: I have it - that girl is from the disreputable district of San Francisco!
- Dr. Angus McPhail: That's very unfair - the girl has a job in Apia - you're jumping at conclusions!
- Alfred Davidson: I'm never mistaken - I know what she is and why she is here - to carry on her shameful trade!
- Sadie Thompson: Mind your own business! And don't you know better than to bust into a lady's boodwar!
- Alfred Davidson: I refuse to have this house turned into a brothel!
- Sadie Thompson: Get outta here you big bully, or I'll sic my army on you!
- Alfred Davidson: I know why you are here, Sadie Thompson, and I won't have it!
- Joe Horn, the trader: I can see you're no reformer - you ain't afraid to smile.
- Dr. Angus McPhail: No - just a tourist...
- Alfred Davidson: I've been talking to the natives - they're so depraved I actually have to teach them what sin is.
- Alfred Davidson: I understand you're from San Francisco - what did you do there?
- Sadie Thompson: I had a singing job. My voice ain't so bad if you don't listen too hard.
- Alfred Davidson: Why did you leave?
- Sadie Thompson: My pipes got a little rusty.
- Sadie Thompson: Davidson can't send me back to 'Frisco can he?
- Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara: Don't let him buffalo you, Sadie - that heel couldn't even send regrets.
- Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara: Where's Davidson?
- Joe Horn, the trader: He went down to the beach to make the natives quit dancing.
- Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara: Where's Sadie?
- Joe Horn, the trader: Davidson's got her cuckoo - she's been praying steady for three days.
- Mrs. Alfred Davidson: Mr. Davidson hasn't slept well for three nights, on account of those terrible dreams he has about Miss Thompson.
- Sadie Thompson: [to Mr. Davidson] You've got the power to hang me but I've got the power to tell you - HANG ME AND BE DAMNED!
- Alfred Davidson: [to his wife, wiping his forehead] That girl is possessed of devils!
- Sadie Thompson: That guy Davidson ain't human - he's deep and he's creepy - I'm going to need friends soon, Handsome.
- Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara: Forget the past, Sadie, and think of the future - us two, shoulder to shoulder - facing life together!
- Sadie Thompson: It's the only way, Handsome. I'm - I'm different, now...
- Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara: No, Sadie! This old hyena's got you so hypnotized it's like you're doped!
- Alfred Davidson: Sadie, what are you doing here?
- Sadie Thompson: I was afraid to stay in my room - I got to seeing things in the dark.
- Alfred Davidson: I, too, have been seeing things in the dark - flaming-hot eyes - Aphrodite - Judas!
- Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara: Turn off that phonograph, Sadie - something's happened.
- Sadie Thompson: Darned right something's happened - you men are all alike - pigs - PIGS! Nothing personal in that last remark, old pardner.
- Sadie Thompson: I guess I'm sorry for everybody in the world - Life is a quaint present from somebody.
- Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara: Where you going now?
- Sadie Thompson: I'm on my way - don't know where but I guess I'll get there.
- Sadie Thompson: Got a room where I can park the body till that boat leaves for Apia?
- Joe Horn, the trader: [after thinking it over a moment] I've got a large store-room in back.
- Sadie Thompson: [jovially noting his enormous stomach] A nice one in front, too.
- Joe Horn, the trader: I can see you're no reformer - you ain't afraid to smile.
- Dr. Angus McPhail: [laughing] No - just a tourist - we met the Davidsons aboard ship, but I don't quite understand his position out here.
- Joe Horn, the trader: Professional reformer - makes a living at it - - politicians all scared of him - - bosses these islands like he owned them.
- Sadie Thompson: Mr. Davidson, the governor said I could go to Sydney, instead of San Francisco, if it's all right with you.
- Sadie Thompson: [Davidson remains silent] Please, Mr. Davidson, don't send me back to San Francisco.
- Sadie Thompson: [Davidson asks her why] There's a man there won't let me go straight.
- Alfred Davidson: Would he need to know you had returned?
- Sadie Thompson: He'd know all right! They're watching all the boats.
- Alfred Davidson: [suddenly getting a diabolically gleeful look on his face] The man you fear wears a uniform and a badge! You're afraid of the penitentiary!
- Sadie Thompson: But I was framed - - I'm innocent - please - please - - give me another chance!
- Alfred Davidson: Yes, Sadie. I will give you a chance - when you are ready to atone.
- Sadie Thompson: I'll do *anything* if you'll just let me go to Sydney.
- Alfred Davidson: No, Sadie - you've got to go back - - to prison.
- Sadie Thompson: Even if I'm innocent?
- Alfred Davidson: Yes.
- Sadie Thompson: [looking utterly defeated] This is my finish.
- Alfred Davidson: No, Sadie - - this is your beginning!
- Alfred Davidson: Sadie Thompson has been reborn - - her soul is cleansed, glorified!
- Dr. Angus McPhail: [laughing] Is that why you're sending her to prison?
- Alfred Davidson: Every moment she's in prison I will suffer all the pain she suffers.
- Mrs. Alfred Davidson: Mr. Davidson hasn't slept well for three nights, on account of those terrible dreams he has about Miss Thompson.
- Dr. Angus McPhail: [mischievously, to Joe Horn, after Mrs. Davidson has left the room] I'm beginning to suspect that our friend's dreams about Miss Thompson are not altogether unpleasant!
- Sadie Thompson: I was hoping to see you before I leave for 'Frisco tomorrow - I want to thank you for your kindness.
- Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara: You ain't going to 'Frisco! You're riding a fishboat to Samarkind where you can catch the ship for Sydney.
- Sadie Thompson: Did Mr. Davidson say so?
- Sergeant Timothy 'Tim' O'Hara: I said so! I ain't letting that faker send you anywhere you don't want to go!
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