- Mrs. Hadfield: You must be dying for a cup of tea, you poor things.
- Freda Thompson: You've got some tea?
- Mrs. Hadfield: I exchanged a pair of corsets for a quarter of a pound, last week.
- Maud Wright: [singing] Too many women and not enough love to go around, Too many women and never a man to be found, Oh, isn't it a shame to wait, All my days and nights...
- Bridie Johnson: For six months I've put up with that. Listening to her talk like the muck she used to write.
- Freda Thompson: Her smack at my career.
- Bridie Johnson: Career? Sob sister on the yellow rag of a paper. Some career.
- Freda Thompson: I place that slightly above a twice-night strip teaser in a third rate music hall.
- Teresa King: She's a perfect beast of a woman! I told her before about calling me "Group Leader." It's so German! I like to describe myself as: Sector Warden. We have one on every floor, you know, elected by the women themselves.
- Teresa King: Freda Thompson, Rosemary Brown, this is your room. I'll be back in a jiffy for a chin wag.
- Freda Thompson: You know, there's something very odd about you.
- Rosemary Brown: In what way?
- Freda Thompson: For a girl whose been in a prison cell for six months, passing a mirror without looking in it.
- Rosemary Brown: I didn't dare.
- Freda Thompson: Perhaps you're right!
- Maud Wright: You mind if I sit down? The old varicose veins, you know. You think you're gonna like it here?
- Freda Thompson: I think we might.
- Maud Wright: Yeah, that's what they all say the first day. Here, have a fag.
- Freda Thompson: What's bothering you? Never undressed in front of others before?
- Rosemary Brown: No, it's - it's just that I'd rather bath on my own.
- Freda Thompson: Wouldn't we all. You know, you'll offend them if you'll back out now, with all the trouble they've taken. Snap out of it kid. Strip and become a popular figure!
- Teresa King: Tea - that's all they ever think about in this place.
- Maud Wright: Tea - and men.
- Margaret Long: I've almost forgotten what they look like.
- Bridie Johnson: They wear trousers. I remember that.
- Maud Wright: That's trouble number two in this place. If you can imagine a very large harem with the Sultan away for his annual holiday, well, that's us.
- Miss Manningford: They're bathing practically in public, my dear.
- Miss Meredith: I hope they won't ask us to do the same.
- Miss Manningford: I should most certainly refuse. I mean, if we can't bath alone, what is there left?
- Freda Thompson: I've never heard anything so stinkingly disgusting and stinkingly fantastic and just plain stinking in all my life!
- Alec Harvey: Would you mind telling me where this is?
- Miss Manningford: It's the Marneville Internment Camp for British Women.
- Alec Harvey: Eh? You, come on now, knock it.
- Miss Manningford: We're not in the habit of telling lies, young man!
- Miss Manningford: Everything's all right, then. I'm afraid your friend will have to take care of himself. But, you'll be quite safe here.
- Miss Meredith: Muriel, you're not suggesting we should have a man in our room all night?
- Miss Manningford: My dear, Claire, it's our duty! The young man shall sleep in your bed - and you shall share mine.
- Alec Harvey: You know, I know what my wife's gonna say if ever this leaks out. She'll say I bailed out here on purpose.
- Miss Meredith: Well, we shan't tell anybody. You can be sure of that.
- Miss Manningford: Now, let's see. If we turn out the lights, we can all undress in the dark and everything will be perfectly proper.
- Miss Meredith: Oh dear, I do hope we're doing the right thing.
- Miss Manningford: Young man, if you've a torch or matches in your pockets, will you kindly place them on the mantle shelf.
- Freda Thompson: I think he's rather good looking. Or, isn't he? Maybe it comes with being cooped up here for a year.
- Rosemary Brown: He's got rather a nice forehead.
- Freda Thompson: Well, maybe we better leave him there and get to bed.
- Rosemary Brown: Do you think if I undid his collar it would help him breathe more freely?
- Freda Thompson: I shouldn't think so. But, you can try if you like. - - Does he got any hair on his chest?
- Rosemary Brown: Oh, for goodness sake, Freda.
- Miss Manningford: If you're trying to intimidate us, I would remind you that we are all of us British!
- Alec Harvey: I could be happy here.
- Rosemary Brown: You'll be safe here.
- Alec Harvey: For how long? I never knew one woman who could keep her mouth shut, let alone 2,000.
- Rosemary Brown: You may be surprised.
- Alec Harvey: You know, that girl's face gets on my nerves. What was she before she was interned?
- Jimmy Moore: How do I know?
- Alec Harvey: Well, I've seen her before somewhere. Everything about her. Her eyes. Her face. Her neck. Shape.
- Jimmy Moore: Must you?
- Alec Harvey: Well, I'm trying to concentrate on the parts I'm most likely to remember.
- Jimmy Moore: Well, don't!
- Freda Thompson: Then it's up to us!
- Maud Wright: All we need is the act to finish the concert.
- Freda Thompson: It's got to be something sensational. If one of those officers leaves the hall before the show's finished, our plan won't work.
- Mrs. Hadfield: I - I don't know if its proper to suggest this, but supposing we could persuade Bridie to - to divest herself of her clothes, as I believe she did on the Paris stage.
- Mrs. Hope Latimer: Mrs. Hadfield!
- Nellie Skinner: Well, I don't know.
- Maud Wright: She's got it. Striptease! No man ever leaves before the last veil drops.
- Mrs. Hope Latimer: I refuse to be a party to it!
- Mrs. Hadfield: She'd be exposing herself for patriotic reasons, you know.
- Freda Thompson: What can that fellow mean to you anyway?
- Bridie Johnson: How can you know what he means to me?
- Freda Thompson: I've a rough idea: three hectic nights, a half a dozen aspirin and here's to the next time.
- Dave Kennedy: As far as I'm concerned, baby, I wouldn't be seen dead in Hell with you now. I know you for what you are. Rotten! Right down to the bottom of your cheap, dirty little soul!
- Freda Thompson: Write her a note and I'll take it up to her. Tell her you just heard what she's doing to help you and you didn't realize what a sacrifice she was making.
- Jimmy Moore: Do you think she'll believe that?
- Freda Thompson: A woman in love will believe anything.
- Freda Thompson, Rosemary Brown, Maud Wright, Mrs. Tatmarsh, Margaret Long, Mrs. Hope Latimer, Nellie Skinner, Mrs. Burtshaw, Annette, Girl in the Show: [singing] There'll always be an England, While there's a country lane, Wherever there's a cottage small, Beside a field of grain, There'll always be an England, And England shall be free, If England means as much to you, As England means to me.
- Bridie Johnson: What did you do before the war?
- Rosemary Brown: Nothing really.
- Bridie Johnson: You must've done something - everybody does something.
- Freda Thompson: If she doesn't want to tell us, that's her affair. If you ask me the sooner we forget the past the better.
- Dave Kennedy: [of the dead German guard] Why do we have to have that swine up here?
- Jimmy Moore: Can't leave him lying around in the grounds, old boy. That would really start something.
- Monsieur Boper: Several women 'ave escaped from this camp. Someone must 'ave 'elped them. Someone also left you a radio. Think it over.
- Bridie Johnson: Do I exist?
- Freda Thompson: You do but I feel it's a mistake. This is Bridie Johnson, known to half Paris, the male half, as Bubbles Kelly.