- Blanche Devereaux: Who is this secret man you're seein'?
- Rose Nylund: Oh, it's not a secret. His name is Ray. He's a friend of Miles.
- Blanche Devereaux: You are dating a friend of Miles? You scalywag.
- Sophia Petrillo: You skunkweed.
- Blanche Devereaux: What's that mean?
- Sophia Petrillo: I don't know. What does yours mean?
- Blanche Devereaux: Goin' out with your boyfriend's friend is very exciting. Take it from me. I wrote the book on dating.
- Rose Nylund: Really? What's it called?
- Blanche Devereaux: It doesn't have a title, you twit.
- Dorothy Zbornak: [Dorothy enters, wearing a bathrobe to keep Sophia from finding out she's dressed to go out with Stan] Hi. Ahh, sorry. Well, good night.
- Blanche Devereaux: Oh, you going to bed already?
- Dorothy Zbornak: Well, what's so terrible about going right to bed?
- Rose Nylund: Hey, Blanche, that's a great title for your book!
- Sophia Petrillo: Where I come from, when someone wanted to make a point, they'd tie a string around your finger. Well, come to think of it, it wasn't a string, it was a piano wire. Actually, it wasn't your finger, it was your neck. Anyway, it was very popular. In fact, piano wire was our village's second biggest export. You know what our biggest export was?
- Everyone: No.
- Sophia Petrillo: Too bad, I don't remember either. My God, I've left brain cells all over the Eastern seaboard.
- Blanche Devereaux: Well, did you have a good time tonight?
- Dorothy Zbornak: Oh, it was wonderful. Oh, girls, I cannot tell you how nice it is to be with Stan lately. He's fun, and attentive, and sweet, oh, even in the bedroom he's just... well, he's really brought new meaning to the word 'solicitous'.
- Rose Nylund: [giggling, then looking confused] What was the old meaning again?
- Dorothy Zbornak: [Stanley has proposed over dinner in a restaurant] I don't know what to say.
- Stan Zbornak: [struggling for words] Don't you see? We belong together. We're an artful complement of individual tastes, enhanced instead of concealed by each other, and served in our natural juices.
- Dorothy Zbornak: You got that from the menu.
- Stan Zbornak: It was the special. Cajun prime rib. But I think it applies.