- Rudolph 'Rudi' Pal: In my opinion, most people prefer sardines to caviar because most people haven't tried caviar.
- Anni Pavlovitch: I want you to marry her, and I want my love to haunt you...to make you lie awake at night, to burn your heart, to make you sick with pain! I want you to think of me and to ache for me. I want never to see you again!
- Alberto, the Waiter: ['Anne' can't decide which fork to use] Work it from the outside in, Signorina.
- Admiral Monti: Anne Vivaldi, that's it! It's been on the tip of my tongue all night.
- Contessa di Meina: How cozy.
- Rudolph 'Rudi' Pal: You don't dance like a debutante.
- Anni Pavlovitch: How do debutantes dance?
- Rudolph 'Rudi' Pal: With stiff knees.
- Contessa di Meina: What interesting knees you have, Admiral. Those are knees, aren't they?
- Admiral Monti: They were.
- Maddelena Monti: [to Rudi] I've known that look on your face ever since you drove my bike into a tree.
- Page Boy: [At the casino in Trieste: a young uniformed casino attendant carrying a platter brings Count Armalia his rather substantial roulette winnings in the form of large banknotes] Sir.
- Count Rudi Armalia: [the Count starts to count the bills] Do you save your money, young man?
- Page Boy: No sir.
- Count Rudi Armalia: Or support a sick mother?
- Page Boy: No sir.
- Count Rudi Armalia: Perhaps you're working your way through school?
- Page Boy: No sir.
- Count Rudi Armalia: You have no ambition of any kind?
- Page Boy: No sir.
- Count Rudi Armalia: Good. Here's an enormous tip for you. Squander it.
- [Hands the attendant a large banknote]
- Page Boy: Yes sir.
- Rudolph 'Rudi' Pal: It's fashionable I know, to think that the simple and humble things in life are best. They're nothing of the kind. In my opinion, most people prefer sardines to caviar simply because most people have never tased caviar.
- Count Rudi Armalia: Life is a great roulette wheel. And a human is a little ball, worthy of himself, bouncing helplessly from fluff to fluff. Where will he end, with wealth or poverty? As Rudi Pal, a desirable young aristocrat or... or as our friend, the waiter.
- Cordellera Bar Proprietor: We have the most beautiful girls - uh, that is the, lowest, most decrepit creatures...
- Anni Pavlovitch: Guilio, you're shown me how strong your love is, and how proud. You couldn't want me now?
- Count Rudi Armalia: Is this the lowest, most decrepit dump in all Trieste?
- Cordellera Bar Proprietor: It is, your excellency. You won't find a more decrepit bar in the waterfront.
- Giulio, the Postmaster: We had a sailboat here once on the lake. One day it turned upside down and sank.