- Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne: I feel so alone! You know what I say, each night in my room? "She doesn't love me. She'll never love me. I try to escape yet I always return. I wish I could die, yet each morning, I beg for one day to see her again."
- Madame Mathilde: What hussy makes you suffer like that?
- Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne: I don't know her yet!
- Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne: Madame! Madame! Just one thing, your last phrase intrigues me. Why must you be seen to leave alone?
- Marie-Louise Rivière: I thought you understood. I'm a stranger here, a Parisian, and even worse, I'm divorced.
- Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne: Now I get it! You worry what people might say. You protect your reputation.
- Marie-Louise Rivière: I'm exhausted.
- Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne: Women say that to get rid of someone!
- Marie-Louise Rivière: Exactly.
- Le lieutenant Félix Leroy: To sum up: Your name is Lucie, you live with your father and it's your first ball.
- Lucie: Yes, sir.
- Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne: I left in a fit of anger. That's very good. It impresses them. First be firm, then be kind. If kindness doesn't work, use the whip!
- Lucie: This is our portrait studio.
- Le lieutenant Félix Leroy: Let's pose! Do you take photographs?
- Lucie: No. Father does. I'm not allowed to touch the camera.
- Le lieutenant Félix Leroy: Pose with me!
- Lucie: Let go! What if someone came in?
- Le lieutenant Félix Leroy: Hold that pose! You moved! We'll have to redo it!
- Lucie: Stand back or I'll leave!
- Thérèse, la chanteuse: [singing] There's nothing left for us to say, Our sweet idyll was just for play, A last kiss good-bye and we are done, Our words for love were just for fun, Just for fun, We say, "Always", We say, "Never", We say, "I swear" or "Forever", Empty words! Such sweet words are idle chatter in love affairs that don't matter, I once smiled at your vows to me, But now, I see, I'd rather remain, Silent forever, If you said "Always" "Never", If you loved me!
- Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne: [Last line] Tomorrow, when the regiment passes, open your window, so I can leave knowing you forgive me, that I haven't lost you.