- Toni: Every morning you come in here and tidy up his room.
- Professor Anna Mathe: Well, it needs a woman's touch.
- Toni: Yes, but who gets the credit for it? Me! He thinks I bring him spring flowers. Flowers, huh! I wonder what kind of man he thinks I am!
- Dr. Hoffenreich: I've observed that teachers whho are browbeaten at home are inclined to take their revenge in school.
- Dr. Wilfinger: Anybody who pokes around in the garbage can shouldn't be surprised when he finds garbage.
- Count Vallais: [to Marie] What will it take to cheer you up? A diamond bracelet, a million francs, or a dance with me?
- [last lines]
- Dr. Stephen Dominick: Isn't it strange how professors can be so pitifully stupid? It's taken me all these weeks to find out that the only answer to the problem...is you.
- Marie Claudel: I could have told you that.
- [they kiss]
- Dr. Spindler: [upon being slapped by Anna] You will apologize for that!
- Professor Anna Mathe: I will not! You're a cruel, vindictive beast, and you deserve much more.
- Dr. Stephen Dominick: Sit down. I'm going to dictate something to you. 'My one and only love,'
- Marie Claudel: Oh, please.
- Dr. Stephen Dominick: Write. 'I can think of nothing but that beautiful moment when you held me in your arms.' I order you to write, Marie.
- Marie Claudel: [on the verge of tears] Oh, I can't! Oh, please don't make me.
- Dr. Stephen Dominick: Then you did write this.
- Marie Claudel: Yes. Oh, I'm so ashamed.
- Dr. Stephen Dominick: How could it have happened?
- Marie Claudel: Surely you don't believe that anything like that really happened!
- Dr. Stephen Dominick: Then why did you write this?
- Marie Claudel: Well, it isn't a real letter.
- Dr. Stephen Dominick: What is it, then?
- Marie Claudel: Oh, how can I explain it to you... Well, here, inside these walls, I'm still a schoolgirl, but the moment I step outside, I feel life around me, I'm with the world. I feel like other people, dream like other people. Then I am not a schoolgirl, I'm a human being.
- Dr. Stephen Dominick: But this-this isn't something out of your imagination, it's-its real.
- Marie Claudel: Well, the letter is real, but what it says is not. The only true thing about it is that I am in love.
- Dr. Stephen Dominick: Yes?
- Marie Claudel: Well, in my dreams, I have been in the embrace of the man I love, yes, that is truth, but what you accuse me of, I'm not guilty.