- Title Card: Winter. Paris, magic city of pleasure, yet beneath its tinseled gaiety throbbing with life's grim note of passion and tragedy.
- Title Card: "The Lady with the Camellias." She was a useless ornament - a plaything - a bird of passage - a momentary aurora.
- Gaston Rieux: There is 'the Lady with the Camellias' with the Count de Varville. She is evidently playing for higher stakes. The old Duke is getting his congé.
- Armand Duval: You really know her, Gaston?
- Gaston Rieux: Would you like to meet her?
- Gaston Rieux: Permit me to introduce a fellow law student.
- Marguerite Gautier: A law student? He'd do better to study love!
- Marguerite Gautier: Let us drink to the Count whose wine we spill - Who never objects to footing the bill - Who is very persistent in his attentions - Yet never conceals his - intentions!
- Marguerite Gautier: [singing] A simple little girl from Bordeaux; Hair, eyes and feet - just so! Modest little ways - dear little Closet! The simple little girl from Bordeaux. Here just a year - everyone's dear! Motors, jewels, clothes - oh! oh! Are her eyes and feet - just so? Naughty little Clo - Clo from Bordeaux!
- Armand Duval: You are different! This life is unworthy of you - it is killing you!
- Marguerite Gautier: You know who - what I am? Go home - forget that we have ever met.
- Armand Duval: I wish I were a relative - your servant - a dog - that I might care for you - nurse you - make you well!
- Marguerite Gautier: My symbol, Armand - a camellia. Cherished, its beauty will excel the loveliest flower, but wound it with the slightest touch and it will die.
- Marguerite Gautier: Do not remind me of my past! I want to forget it!
- Armand Duval's Father: You cannot - you are chained to your past!
- Prudence: And Marguerite! Suppers - parties- she is drugging herself with excitement! She will kill herself!
- Armand Duval: If chance could be bought with *gold* - like a woman - you might be the winner, my dear Count!