- Papa Vittorio Martelli: Mr Hunter what kind of joke are you joking - you went out for dinner with Maria and come back with Nina.
- Countess Alzani: Don't you find her attractive?
- Ray Hunter: Very attractive.
- Countess Alzani: Single too.
- Ray Hunter: Now there's a combination you don't run into very often.
- Maria Martelli: I hope I didn't offend you.
- Ray Hunter: Not at all, you're just one of those people who speak their mind - an over-rated virtue!
- Nina Martelli: A man can't be a friend, he can be a brother, a father or a husband but not a friend.
- Ray Hunter: Enjoying yourself Tom?
- Tom Crandall: Nicest birthday present I ever had.
- Ray Hunter: This isn't your birthday.
- Tom Crandall: It is from now on. Today I'm beginning to live!
- Papa Vittorio Martelli: Nina doesn't know what love is. Four weeks ago she was in love with the delivery boy. Two weeks ago with a Swiss engineer. Last week with a man who come to fix the ice-box - and the ice-box still doesn't work! No, Nina is in love with the idea of being in love. That's all.
- Mike Clark: Why don't you stay and have a drink with me?
- Nina Martelli: I don't drink.
- Mike Clark: You don't know what you're missing. Another double martini, bartender.
- Diana Martelli: [as they observe Ray dancing with their older sister, Maria] Do you think he will marry her?
- Ana Martelli: They only met this afternoon.
- Diana Martelli: But I understand that in America, that is a *long* engagement!
- Nina Martelli: [Nina is aboard Ray's private plane - her first time ever flying] Nobody will believe me, this wonderful plane, and only you and me.
- Ray Hunter: Well, don't, uh, any of your boyfriends have, uh, private planes?
- Nina Martelli: Ha! They're lucky to have "Lambrettas." You know - motor scooters. You ever been on the back seat of a motor scooter?
- Ray Hunter: No, not lately.
- Nina Martelli: [Indicating his private plane] *This* is better.
- Arthur: Is there something going on, Mr. Hunter? Is anything wrong?
- Ray Hunter: Arthur, I'm in love.
- Arthur: That's very nice, sir.
- Ray Hunter: I have to marry four girls.
- [turns and exits]
- Arthur: [looks a bit baffled] That's not a marriage. That's a merger.
- Ray Hunter: Why can't we have coffee like this in America?
- Maria Martelli: Americans haven't time to wait for espresso, they want instant coffee. I meant no offense Mr. Hunter.
- Ray Hunter: Oh, no offense. I'll admit the Americans are very impatient; but, isn't there any impatience in Italy?
- Maria Martelli: Perhaps, but not for the same things.
- Countess Alzani: A bachelor with ten thousand bedrooms, I think it is Medieval. Only the Medicis had such a luxury.
- Ray Hunter: Well, unlike the Medicis, I can only use one bedroom at a time.
- Maria Martelli: She has lost and you have won.
- Ray Hunter: This isn't a sporting event. Nobody wins or loses. It's business!
- Nina Martelli: Oh, I love the Countessa; but, unfortunately she's ieri - that means yesterday. You're domani - that means tomorrow.
- Ray Hunter: That leaves oggi - that means today, right?
- Nina Martelli: Oh, you know molto Italiano! I could kiss you!
- Ray Hunter: Well, now, aren't you overreacting?
- Nina Martelli: It's the climate, we're near Africa.
- Ray Hunter: It is a little warm here.
- Papa Vittorio Martelli: Now that you know that my little song is in American jazz, perhaps you'll practice the piano.
- Nina Martelli: Oh, I make more money playing a typewriter anyway. And if Mr. Hunter gives me a raise, which I...
- Maria Martelli: Nina! How can you?
- Ray Hunter: Oh, I don't mind. I like aggressiveness. You know, Nina, you're going to go a long way. How old are you?
- Nina Martelli: Nineteen.
- Maria Martelli, Papa Vittorio Martelli: Eighteen!
- Ray Hunter: I'll see that you get that raise.
- Maria Martelli: I am enjoying myself.
- Ray Hunter: So am I. Even enough to dance. I'm not good at it.
- Maria Martelli: Whenever a man says that, he dances like Nijinsky.
- Ray Hunter: [singing] The kind of passion you fashion, cannot be explained. You, I love. You're so appealing, the feeling, cannot be contained. And when I touch you, there's no denying, the flying, I do into space...
- Ray Hunter: What do you do besides being a Count?
- Vittorio Cisini: I deal in the humanities, chiefly in the representation of the human figure. There have been those kind enough to call me an artist.
- Mike Clark: If you aren't busy, I'd like to dictate a letter.
- Nina Martelli: In English?
- Mike Clark: Ah-huh.
- Nina Martelli: In English, I am slow.
- Mike Clark: I dictate slow.
- Nina Martelli: Texas? That is with cowboys, yes?
- Mike Clark: Yeah. You like cowboys?
- Nina Martelli: Oh, I'm crazy for them!
- Mike Clark: Oh, I used to be a cowboy.
- Nina Martelli: Let's dictate, please.
- Mike Clark: Dear Pop, Well, here I am in Rome. It has wonderful old ruins like the Coliseum, Hadrian's Palace. It also has the most beautiful women in the world. Italian girls have a special quality. There's a glow that comes from inside. An effervescence that...
- Nina Martelli: Stop! I cannot write that.
- Mike Clark: Well, why not? It's true.
- Nina Martelli: Yes, it's true. But, I can't spell it.
- Mike Clark: Oh, you don't have to spell it - you got it!
- Nina Martelli: Have I?
- Mike Clark: Oh, yes! Oh my, yes!
- Mike Clark: How much do I owe you?
- Nina Martelli: I never charge cowboys and pilots.
- Mike Clark: You're a doll!
- Nina Martelli: I know exactly what I'm doing!
- Papa Vittorio Martelli: Yes. And exactly what you're doing now is going to bed! Avanti su!
- [spanks Nina on her behind]
- Papa Vittorio Martelli: There's nothing wrong with a custom, even an old custom, that the youngest should wait her turn. Nina will not get married. This is final. If you really mean what you say, you can afford to wait. Nina will be tender for a long time.
- Ray Hunter: Yeah, but I won't.
- Mike Clark: Why don't we join forces?
- Nina Martelli: If this is still a pitch, you're wasting your time.
- Mike Clark: Maybe. But, I always keep pitching until the game is absolutely and finally lost. A lot can happen in the last half of a ninth inning.
- Maria Martelli: I'll make him stop this nonsense.
- Ray Hunter: Well, you're a livin', breathin' doll and I love you.
- Maria Martelli: Ray Hunter is a wealthy and aggressive man. And if he wants to get something, he's going to get it, whether he has to buy it or bribe it or walk on top of people or overpower them.
- Maria Martelli: Why can't you remember that I am human too? Stop pressing buttons to change my life. Don't tell me whom to love and whom to marry and when and where and if. I don't work for you and I do not belong to you, Mr. Hunter. And I don't care for your money or your position or your hotels or - or the ease with which you fall in love.
- Papa Vittorio Martelli: She's only a child.
- Countess Alzani: Did you ever hear of Romeo and Juliet?
- Papa Vittorio Martelli: Yes, I have. And what happened to them? Both dead.
- Ray Hunter: You know, everybody thinks a millionaire can do what he wants to do when he wants to do it. They couldn't be more wrong. Believe me, Arthur, money's a problem.
- Ray Hunter: Get going before you make me...
- Nina Martelli: Make you what Mr Hunter?
- Ray Hunter: Make me forget my business.
- Ana Martelli, Diana Martelli: [singing] One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock! Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock rock! Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock rock! We're gonna rock around de clock tonight, When de clock strikes two, three and four, If de band slows down we'll yell for more! We're gonna rock around the clock tonight, We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'till broad daylight, We're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight...