- Jean: [dressing for a date] Zip me up will you, Carl?
- Carl Buckley: [impatiently] You dames, you spend more time gettin' dressed...
- Jean: Have to! It's much better to have good looks than brains because most of the men I know can see much better than they can think.
- Vicki Buckley: You've killed before!
- Jeff Warren: Before? Oh, the war, huh. I'd almost forgot. You thought I could do it because of that, huh? Well, there's a difference. In the war you fire into the darkness... something moving on a ridge, a position, a uniform, an enemy. But a man coming home helpless, drunk... that takes a different kind of killing.
- Vicki Buckley: Yes, and a different kind of a man.
- Carl Buckley: It's six-thirty already.
- Jean: If you're married, that's late, and if you're single, it's early.
- Vera Simmons: What would you men do if there were no women around to sew buttons on?
- Alec Simmons: If there were no women around, we wouldn't need any buttons.
- Jeff Warren: How do you tell the right girl for you from the wrong one?
- Ellen Simmons: By the way you love her.
- Ellen Simmons: Were the girls pretty in Tokyo?
- Jeff Warren: Yup.
- Ellen Simmons: Did you date any, uh, beautiful Japanese girls?
- Jeff Warren: Well, the officers got a hold of most of the beautiful ones before I got there.
- Ellen Simmons: [in mock sympathy] Poor Jeff.
- Jeff Warren: It's all wrong, Vicki. The whole thing's been wrong from the beginning... and I feel dirty.
- [first lines]
- Yard Worker: Good to see you back, Jeff.
- Jeff Warren: Town looks great.
- Yard Worker: Eighty percent better than Korea, I'll bet.
- Jeff Warren: One hundred percent.
- Yard Worker: No medals?
- Jeff Warren: They ran out of 'em.