- Capitan Porfirio Diaz: The older man will be a Senor Kelly.
- Estrelita: And the younger one?
- Capitan Porfirio Diaz: They call him "Flip". He is - how do you say - your pigeon. They will be at the hotel; you will meet him.
- Estrelita: But Porfirio, how does someone go about meeting someone in that manner? I don't think I will be able...
- Capitan Porfirio Diaz: You're a woman... a beautiful woman. It will not be difficult. Is it too much to ask for Mexico?
- Estrelita: For Mexico, no. Wish me luck!
- Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly: I don't know what it is, but you take almost any man with a voice that would frighten a timber wolf, put him in a bathtub and right away he thinks he's an opera singer.
- Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly: Well, of course I can't tell you what to do, Flip, but I think you should look your best we get to "The Home of Beautiful Women".
- Frank 'Flip' Flippen: So do I. That's why I'm going out tonight and do a little practicin'.
- [Flip has turned down Estrelita's bribe]
- Capitan Porfirio Diaz: Honor is a quality to be admired, senor, but it can sometimes prove embarrasing to its possessor... as well as others.
- Frank 'Flip' Flippen: Who are you?
- Capitan Porfirio Diaz: Porfirio Diaz at your service, senor
- Frank 'Flip' Flippen: If you're at my service, how come you got that gun pointed my way?
- Frank 'Flip' Flippen: Howdy, Estrelita. Been in any bathhouses lately?
- Estrelita: I am pleased you are not angry with me.
- Frank 'Flip' Flippen: Why should I be? Mr. Kelly always told me not to trust a pretty girl any father than I could throw a buffalo by its tail. Got nobody to blame but myself.
- Estrelita: It was a matter of necessity, you understand.
- Frank 'Flip' Flippen: Sure - but if I had to do it all over again... I guess I'd do it all over again.
- [Diaz's men have captured Flip, Kelly and the Princess]
- Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly: My guess is they're going to either hold you for ransom, or...
- Frank 'Flip' Flippen: Not ransom, Kelly. Diaz isn't out for money.
- Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly: Or it's a political thing. They don't want you to get to Washington.
- Princess Teresa: They want Maximillian to die. They resent being ruled by a foreigner.
- Frederick Thomas 'Fred' Kelly: That's been the history with quite a few countries.