- Miss Branding: Remember, the deed or the responsibility are mine.
- Nancy Perkins: Your responsibility? Like master and slave?
- Miss Branding: Like brain and arm. Put it out of your mind. Go on, Nancy. Go back to class.
- Stanley Mayther: In the meantime we must do everything possible to keep all the other parents at bay.
- Mrs. Thorndyke: You speak of parents as if they were enemies.
- Stanley Mayther: That's the only way to think of them.
- Miss Branding: Science constantly moves forwarrd. Every hour brings new discoveries.
- Myra: Your own?
- Miss Branding: My own! Otherwise what I have to give to the world would have no validity.
- Myra: [to Nancy as she tries to convince her to join their sorority] Just remember, there's no such thing as a lone wolf here at Sherwood. We can make life awfully miserable for oddballs.
- [last lines]
- Mrs. Thorndyke: [in a cautionary tone] There is a power greater than science that rules the earth, and those who twist and pervert knowledge for evil only work out their own destruction. I'll call the police.
- Myra: We divide him up like a jug of water on a lifeboat.
- Eddie: One swallow to each girl.
- Nancy Perkins: Oh, NOW I get it.