- Jay Williams: But you can't just go around alone.
- Nan Spencer: Why not? I can have as dull a time alone as I can with you.
- Jay Williams: Well, what would you like to do first - see the sights?
- Nan Spencer: All right, but you'll have to wait till I swim across that bathtub and back.
- Rosita Rivas: For me, you are chase with that little blondie floogie?
- Nan Spencer: Hey, you can't call me a floozy.
- Rosita Rivas: Oh, can't I? Floogie, floogie.
- [sic]
- Jay Williams: [Dictates a telegram response to Rafael] Walter McCracken, McCracken Building, New York City. Human element hard at work. Girl getting happier by the minute. Read that back to me.
- Rafael: Walt McCrack, Cincinnati. Humane elephant hardly works.
- Jay Williams: [Getting up from the table] Give me that! I'll write it myself.
- Rafael: Senor, it is not so easy to write standing up.
- Walter McCracken: You mean she could sue us?
- Jay Williams: Remember the Calypso.
- Walter McCracken: All right. All right. Give her anything she wants within reason. Or it might even be a little unreasonable, just so she signs that waiver.
- Terry McCracken: Have you forgotten we're being married Saturday?
- Walter McCracken: I have, but it doesn't make any difference.
- Terry McCracken: Oh, doesn't it?
- Walter McCracken: No. That ship's worth five million. Your wedding's only costing three thousand.
- Jay Williams: Now, what kind of a contract did you have with Monte?
- Rosita Rivas: It was a verbal contract, but I tear it up.
- Jay Williams: It's the, uh, presidential suite, you know.
- Nan Spencer: Well, the whole cabinet could use the bathtub. They ought a have lifeguards.
- Jay Williams: During the off-season, they indubitably use it as a dry dock.
- Walter McCracken: Look, you can get married any time. But there's only one time to get 480 passengers off a reef, and that's as soon as possible.
- Walter McCracken: But don't you leave her side until you get that signature.
- Jay Williams: But that'll take two weeks. Have you forgotten about my wedding?
- Walter McCracken: You can get married anytime. Now, keep in close touch with me.
- Boris: I won't haggle with you, Monte. You'll either get five percent of the young lady's losses or a hundred percent of what I planned for you before you came in.
- Monte Blanca: Uh, huh, huh. Well, five percent is perfectly satisfactory. Heh, heh, heh, I was just trying to get the best deal.
- Boris: You have.
- Nan Spencer: Well, how do I know I'll have a good time?
- Jay Williams: Well, that we can't guarantee. All we can do is expose you having a good time.
- Nan Spencer: Oh, I knew it would be romantic.
- Rafael: Romantic Senorita? There is no place on this earth, it is so romantic.
- Nan Spencer: It's a wonder the population isn't bigger.
- Rafael: Oh, they come and go, but the reaction is always the same. Here we have more alignments of the heart than any other place in the world. And there have been more marriages in this hotel than any other hotel in the world.
- Monte Blanca: Oh, I would have come up yesterday only I had not, uh, yet made my arrangements.
- Boris: Funeral?
- Monte Blanca: No, financial.
- Nan Spencer: [Rummaging through the wastebasket for the cashier's check Terry McCracken had given her] There's a thousand dollars in here.
- Monte Blanca: Oh, senorita, you are clever. What a place to hide money.
- Arbolado: This room down here is only for those who can't pay for anything better. Tight-skates and cheap-wads.
- Jay Williams: Look, Blanca, I'll make up the losses, but not all at once. Payments of $500 at a time.
- Monte Blanca: Senor, naturally, I am more than grateful, but, uh, I still do not understand why.
- Jay Williams: Well, not because of your character.
- Jay Williams: Miss Spencer seems to like you and to have a good time with you. For business reasons, I want her to continue to have a good time. The minute she stops having a good time, I stop paying Boris.
- Boris: And I wouldn't like that, Monte.
- Rosita Rivas: Kiss me.
- Jay Williams: What?
- Rosita Rivas, Jay Williams: Kiss me.
- Jay Williams: Well, I guess we might as well seal the bargain. I guess.
- Jay Williams: I'm looking for a young lady.
- Arbolado: I know a redhead. I could get her here in ten minutes.
- Jay Williams: No, no. I'm supposed to meet this young lady here - Senorita Rivas.
- Monte Blanca: Where would you find another manager like me huh?
- [They kiss]
- Rosita Rivas: Mmmm, that's right. No one can manage me like you do. But you are a thief and a no-good good-for-nothing.
- [They kiss]
- Rosita Rivas: Oh, but I like you.
- Monte Blanca: Oh, Rosita mia, never have you looked more lovely.
- Rosita Rivas: And never have you looked more guilty.
- Jay Williams: After Miss Spencer went out with you last night, I looked you up. As characters go, yours is not very good.
- Monte Blanca: Oh, there are a lot of rumors. They are not true.
- Nan Spencer: Oh, Monte, you were right about this table being lucky. Look, I won it all on 14. Fourteen again.
- Monte Blanca: No, no, no, you must not bet on that again. It could never repeat.
- Nan Spencer: Oh, that's what everybody's been telling me.
- Monte Blanca: No, a good roulette player is one who knows how to change. Now this time you should bet heavily on eight.
- Nan Spencer: Eight - why?
- Monte Blanca: Well, uh, eight and six make 14. Then ya bet on six. It's an infallible system.
- Monte Blanca: You, uh, are sure she is wealthy?
- Rafael: It's the surest thing in the whole world. She has the most expensive suite in the hotel. Her clothes - they are the most luxurious and the thinnest I have ever seen. And if this is not proof enough, she tipped me only 10 cents.
- Monte Blanca: She must be VERY wealthy.
- Arbolado: You know, senior, this house is very romantic. The very famous private, Morgan, used to come ashore here and make love to the wife of the governor-general.
- Monte Blanca: I, uh, suppose you have some way in mind I can repay you.
- Boris: That too has been arranged.
- Monte Blanca: Oh, fine, fine. But killing is out. I will not kill.
- Monte Blanca, Jay Williams: I will do my best to make Senorita Spencer ecstatic.
- Jay Williams: That ought a be good enough. You Cubans are supposed to be experts at romance.
- Monte Blanca: Ohhh, I am not a Cuban, sir. I was born in Brooklyn as a child. But I have a feel for romance.
- Jay Williams: Now, if I'm going to handle your affairs, there are a few things I'll have to know.
- Rosita Rivas: Oh, you will find out, little by little
- Rosita Rivas: And what did you think of your blonde?
- Monte Blanca: Uh, the blonde?
- Rosita Rivas: Yeah, yeah. I am told you are upstairs with a blonde.
- Monte Blanca: But there are many blondes upstairs. If you stand next to a women, it is 35 to one she is a blonde.
- Rosita Rivas: If was not 35 blondes, it was one blonde.
- Nan Spencer: I am with a man, but I'm going home alone.
- Monte Blanca: Oh, well, one of two things happened, senorita. You were insulted, or you were not insulted. And beyond that, you are not going home alone.
- Boris: So she was a wealthy girl?
- Monte Blanca: No, listen, Boris.
- Boris: She owns half of America?
- Monte Blanca: I can explain.
- Boris: She looses thousands every night.
- Monte Blanca: Boris, please. My information - there was a slip.
- Boris: Yessss! But luckily this time, Monte, you've landed on your feet instead of where you usually land.
- Rosita Rivas: You are big and strong.
- Jay Williams: Wellll, I've had the usual childhood diseases... but I think I'm well enough to handle any deals that come up.
- Rosita Rivas: Aha, so you are going upstairs
- [to the gambling room]
- Monte Blanca: Only to test myself.
- Rosita Rivas: You are through testing yourself. It is too expensive.
- Rosita Rivas: [to Monte Blanca] You stole. You lied. You gambled. And I'm stood for it. But not now. You are through. I have a new manager.
- Monte Blanca: Senor, $500 will save my life.
- Jay Williams: It isn't worth it.
- Monte Blanca: No? Well make me an offer.
- Jay Williams: I never had time to worry about having fun.
- Nan Spencer: Well, when you have to worry about having fun, you're hopeless.
- Monte Blanca: How can I gamble when I have no money?
- Rosita Rivas: When I have proved that with my own eyes, I still not believe it.
- Jay Williams: Why does everyone hate these glasses?
- Nan Spencer: Because when you get behind 'em, you're a cold fish. The rest of the time you're sort of nice.
- Arbolado: [after tripping Jay who is running after Nan] You were in such a hurry, I thought you might have overlooked your check. So I took the liberty of calling it to your attention.
- Jay Williams: [Getting up off the floor] Okay, okay. How much is it?
- Arbolado: Two bottles champagne, 9.90. Two suppers 10 dollars.
- Jay Williams: We didn't have any supper.
- Arbolado: Call it cover charge.
- Nan Spencer: I'm never gonna see Senor Williams again. Never.
- Monte Blanca: [Slaps his forehead] Then I die. When you leave, my body will be floating in the harbor.
- Monte Blanca: No no! Please, Rosita, listen to me. I have spent your money. I have lost at gambling. I have lied to you. But never have I been untrue to you.