- Bishop: Good day, Arturo. I do not see how we can keep our eyes closed to the situation any longer, Father. There comes a time when we must take a stand. Read this. Read it out loud. I want to hear how it sounds.
- Arturo Carrera: "Entrance to this House of God is forbidden to immodestly dressed women who's frocks do not cover their elbows and their knees."
- Arturo Carrera: They haven't lost their faith in God. They've lost it in us - the Church. We failed them! They look to us for protection against cruelty and injustice and this is the kind of answer we give them? A preposterous reminder that there are certain parts of a woman's body that Bishops disapprove of.
- Bishop: For every failure, there is a martyred priest whose blood is the very seed of the Church.
- Arturo Carrera: How do I know they were martyrs?
- Bishop: Arturo, please.
- Arturo Carrera: Why weren't they simply just fools?
- Bishop: I have been very patient with you, Father.
- Arturo Carrera: How do I know they didn't die for a myth? Or, for a ghost?
- Capt. Botargus: The Continental Broadcasting Company won't have a correspondent here very long, if he continues to listen to the enemy wireless.
- Hawthorne: The Continental is trying to be a fair and impartial observer, Captain. It hates both sides.
- Gen. Clave: It's a dirty trick, sticking civilians into the trenches. But, that seems to be the whole art of winning wars these days: successful dirty tricks!
- Canon Rota: You never believed in it anyway, did you?
- Arturo Carrera: No.
- Canon Rota: Neither did I. I was either too stupid or not stupid enough. I don't know which.
- Hawthorne: No, nothing new. Oh sure, there're disturbances. A few guys getting killed, here and there. Well, that doesn't add up to a revolution!
- Arturo Carrera: A cause isn't necessarily true because a man dies for it. His dying merely proves that he believed in it. Not that he wasn't a fool to do so!
- Soledad: Do you need four eyeballs?
- Hawthorne: Every one-eyed gentlemen needs at least four - for routine social demands. This one has a rather wicked glint in it - for leering at you girls after midnight. This one - has a good clean honest look - for dealing with mothers. This one - this one's simply bloodshot.
- Soledad: What is that?
- Hawthorne: Aw, this one's for patriotic occasions. That's a small American flag painted across the pupil. A tribute to God's Country, impossible for the old-fashioned two-eyed man.
- Soledad: Don't you like me?
- Arturo Carrera: Yes, very much.
- Soledad: Is it because I'm a cabaret girl?
- Arturo Carrera: I'll come back.
- Soledad: No you won't.
- Arturo Carrera: I promise you. I promise you, I will.
- Soledad: No you won't.
- Capt. Botargus: What did the Reverend Arturo tell you to say to him?
- Soledad: Who is the Reverend Arturo?
- Capt. Botargus: How would you like to be questioned with instruments?