- Pierre: Don't look so unhappy, little girl. Things could be worse.
- Polly Bradford: [Peeling potatoes in the ship's galley] How?
- Pierre: Those might be onions.
- Pierre: [When the captain enters the kitchen and breaks up the staff singing] We were just singing for fun.
- Captain Jeremy Bradford: And the passengers are just waiting for food.
- Pierre: [to the staff] Don't stand there! Get wiggles on, all of you! Go on! Go on! Go on!
- Polly Bradford: I guess you might be quite provoked with me.
- Captain Jeremy Bradford: That's a pretty good guess. Why did you do it?
- Themselves: [singing] We have an old fashioned to-mah-to, A Long Island po-tah-to, But yes, we have no bananas, We have no bananas today...
- Olaf Eriksen: The Captain's daughter? Puts things in my potatoes, scrubs the floors, sings opera - this is the funniest boat I was ever on in my life. Beer, more beer.
- Polly Bradford: You don't know it but I'm possibly your greatest admirer. I think you're the most wonderful man in the world - as a singer, that is. I have all your records and I play them over and over and over again. Oh, Mr. Erikson, you *send* me. In fact, you're my Sinatra.
- Captain Jeremy Bradford: I know from experience that half the women on this ship are running away from men and the other half are running after them.
- Polly Bradford: He wants to make up. She's not ready to yet. She won't answer the phone or talk to him or anything. But, he still keeps trying. Isn't it romantic?
- Captain Jeremy Bradford: Or, annoying.
- Zita Romanka: [singing] Repeats and repeats and repeats and repeats and repeats and I repeat in my ear, Don't you know, little fool, You never can win, Use your mentality, Wake up to reality, But each time I do just the thought of yoooooooooou, Makes me stop - oh, Captain - before I begin, 'Cause I've got you under my skin!
- Denis Mulvy: Please don't be mad at me any more.
- Polly Bradford: I'm too sad to be mad at anybody. Even you.
- Denis Mulvy: What are you sad about?
- Polly Bradford: Life.
- Denis Mulvy: Yes, I know. It makes me sad sometimes, too.
- Suzy: Oh, I don't know. I wouldn't want him as a *father*. Say, when is leap year?
- Polly Bradford: Suzy, I'm not going to have you for a step-mother.
- Captain Jeremy Bradford: You've disobeyed me. And not for the first time, either. Young lady, you need discipline!
- Denis Mulvy: I'm sorry I was rough with you. I'm really not a brute.
- Polly Bradford: No?
- Denis Mulvy: Oh, no. But, when you kicked me, I - well, I guess I lost my head.
- Polly Bradford: Oh, you lost your head? Then, go look for it!
- Captain Jeremy Bradford: She needs discipline. Very badly - for her own good. I know what I'm talking about.
- Zita Romanka: Oh, Captain, you're charming - and so handsome. Turn to profile. No! Turn it back. Oh yes, you're one of the most handsomest men I have met in some time. And I know my handsome men. Oh, you blush so pretty. I think I'm going to like you very much. I like shy men! Of course, they mustn't be too shy.
- Zita Romanka: You are in loves with her, yes?
- Captain Jeremy Bradford: Oh, no, I've only known her a few hours.
- Zita Romanka: With love you know in a few minutes.
- [moves closer]
- Zita Romanka: I do.
- Zita Romanka: 'Tis bad of you, Jeremy, to make a date with me and then to play hide and seek. For that you will buy me much champagne.
- Polly Bradford: [singing] Peanuts, If you haven't got bananas don't be blue, Peanuts in a little bag are calling you...
- Zita Romanka: Jeremy. Jeremy. You give a party. You do not ask me. So, I come. You're a bad man. But, we will dance and I will forgive you. Come. Excuse.
- Captain Jeremy Bradford: Excuse me.
- Olaf Eriksen: Such a busy Captain. Always going some place else.
- Zita Romanka: I would enjoy myself telling *you* where to go.
- Olaf Eriksen: I have been there.
- Polly Bradford: [singing] In her heart was Spring, The merriness of May, Was in her voice, And she was gay...