- Coco: But idiots are hard to find, I should think.
- Baron Philippe de La Tour-La Tour: Oh no, not in the scientific world.
- Dr. Bomb: You're the most impudent scoundrel I've ever known.
- Baron Philippe de La Tour-La Tour: Sir, I am impervious to flattery.
- Professor Auguste A. Topaze: But my dear children, I have something rather sad to tell you. It will surprise you to know that unlike the lessons you have learned here, in the outside world, honesty is not always rewarded.
- [turning to protesting faculty]
- Professor Auguste A. Topaze: -Very true sirs, very true. I can even say Dr. Stegg that villainy often receives more applause than virtue. Gentlemen, the world that lies outside that door is a most upside down place. You will be shocked someday, when full of maxims, mottoes, and education, you behold injustice triumphant, and wrongdoing receiving the rewards which should be given only to the virtuous... Dr Stegg thinks I am forgetting myself. Alas, I remember myself too well.