- Amy Jolly: Every time a man has helped me, there has been a price. What's yours?
- La Bessiere: My price? A smile.
- Amy Jolly: I haven't got much more.
- Tom Brown: I've told women about everything a man can say. I'm going to tell you something I've never told a woman before: I wish I'd met you ten years ago.
- Tom Brown: [Noticing an old photo on Amy's wall, in which she is elegantly attired] How long ago was that picture taken?
- Amy Jolly: Why?
- Tom Brown: That looks like Russian sable. That coat's worth a loada' shekels. Ya' still got it?
- Amy Jolly: Don't be absurd. If I still had that coat, I wouldn't be here.
- La Bessiere: Good evening, officer.
- Ship's Deck Officer: Good evening.
- La Bessiere: [Referring to Amy Jolly] Do you know who that woman is?
- Ship's Deck Officer: [Indifferently] A vaudeville actress, probably.
- La Bessiere: Uh, just, uh, how do you know that?
- Ship's Deck Officer: Oh, we carry them every day. We call them 'suicide passengers.' One way ticket. They never return.
- Amy Jolly: [singing, at the nightclub] What am I bid for my apple, the fruit that made Adam so wise? On the historic night, when he took a bite, they discovered a new paradise. An apple, they say, keeps the doctor away, while his pretty young wife has the time of her life, with the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker... Oh, what am I bid for my apple?
- La Bessiere: Sometimes they catch up with them, and sometimes they don't. And very often when they do, they find their men dead...
- Madame Caesar: Tom, I must see you tonight.
- Tom Brown: See me tonight? What if your husband sees you tonight?
- Madame Caesar: He isn't going to see me...
- Tom Brown: Isn't he? What if he does?
- Madame Caesar: [Coyly, quoting a classic line from the time of Julius Caesar] Caesar's wife is above suspicion.
- Tom Brown: Yeah? You may know something about ancient history, but I know something about husbands.
- [Gives her a little salute and walks off]
- Amy Jolly: [Bessiere has presented her with a very expensive-looking piece of jewelry] I can't accept this. It's worth a fortune.
- La Bessiere: Anything of less value would be unworthy of you.
- Tom Brown: What in the name of 10,000 purples did you come to a country like this for anyway?
- Amy Jolly: I understand that men are never asked why they enter the Foreign Legion.
- Tom Brown: That's right! They never asked me and if they had I wouldn't have told. When I crashed the Legion, I ditched the past.
- Amy Jolly: There's a Foreign Legion of women, too. But we have no uniforms, no flags, and no medals - when *we* are brave. No wound stripes - when *we* are hurt.
- Tom Brown: Look here, is there anything I can do to help you?
- Amy Jolly: No. I've thought that before. Or, do you think you can restore my faith in men?
- Tom Brown: Not me. You got the wrong man for that! Anybody who has faith in me is a sucker.
- Amy Jolly: You better go now. I'm - beginning to like you.
- Tom Brown: I've told women about everything a man can say. I'm going to tell you something I've never told a woman before: I wish I'd met you ten years ago.
- Amy Jolly: [a group of women with bundles over their shoulders are following the company of Legionnaires going on a mission] What are those women?
- La Bessiere: I'd call them the rear guard.
- [first lines]
- Sergeant Tatoche: Now listen here, fat-heads. We're back home again and that's because we did a little fighting. And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking: Well, here comes us, The Foreign Legion. Each man a hero, all the booze in the world made for us, and the women thrown in. But, you're wrong. This time, you're gonna behave yourselves like gentlemen even if it'll kills you. Yes, I'm talking to you, you heard what I said!
- Miss Marten: Aren't you the painter La Bessire?...
- La Bessiere: I paint when I find the time.
- Anna Dolores: He has all the time that he needs. He would be a great painter if he were not so rich.
- Anna Dolores: Perhaps you can give me the history of his wife?
- Col. Buchard: The less said about that, the better.
- Lo Tinto, Nightclub Owner: Sing your number once and then sell the apples. That's the most important thing. Sell the apples! 10 % is yours, 90 % is mine. You'll make a fortune!
- Lo Tinto, Nightclub Owner: Don't waste your time down there. There's no money in the pit!
- Amy Jolly: Isn't there?
- [proceeds to the pit]
- La Bessiere: Possibly I can help you.
- Amy Jolly: Every time a man has helped me there's been a price. What's yours?
- La Bessiere: My price? A smile?
- Amy Jolly: I haven't got much more.
- Tom Brown: I've been looking for the right kind of woman all my life and I think I've found her. So I quit! Take this dame and spend a few weeks somewhere along the blue Mediterranean.
- Tom Brown: [gun fire and the Legionnaires hit the turf] I don't see why we have to keep getting down all day? We only have to get up again. Anyhow, those walking bed sheets can't shoot straight.
- La Bessiere: What's wrong, Lo Tinto?
- Lo Tinto, Nightclub Owner: What's wrong? She's been drinking like a fish. And don't send her anymore flowers in pots! She threw the last one at me an hour ago!
- Amy Jolly: Where is Tom Brown? Was he killed?
- Sergeant Tatoche: Not so rough, Mademoiselle. I'm liable to fall apart. We left him in at Amalfa. You can't kill that long drink of water.
- Lo Tinto, Nightclub Owner: [At the nightclub, to the newly arrived Amy Jolly] Now, you may have heard of me, or not. My house is patronized by the finest society in Morocco... Now, what was I going to say?... Oh, yes: Pick yourself a protector. It will give you prestige. An officer in the Legion. They will tell you that the officers in the Legion are unimportant, that the common Legionnaire is the thing. They will tell you that Private so-and-so is a Russian prince or an ex-general, that he joined the Legion to forget his past. Don't believe it! The Private is a 'nobody' at 75 centimes per day... Pick the officers - THEY have the money!
- La Bessiere: Mademoiselle, may I have the honor of your company after the performance?
- Amy Jolly: I am sorry, I have disposed of the balance of the evening.
- La Bessiere: Some other time, perhaps?
- Amy Jolly: [Coyly] Of course.
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