- Gus Smith: My name is Schmidt, but I changed it to Smith. That's what I got against these guys more than anything else. They make me ashamed of the name I was born with. I got a lot of relatives in Germany. For all I know this guy may be one of them. I say throw him to the sharks!
- Connie Porter: [last lines, translating the German soldier's words] He said "Aren't you going to kill me?"
- Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett: "Aren't you going to kill me?" What are you gonna do with people like that?
- John Kovac: I dunno. I was thinking of Mrs Higley and her baby. And Gus.
- Connie Porter: Well, maybe they can answer that.
- Connie Porter: [On the tattoos on Kovac's chest, especially the heart with the letters B.M] Her initials are larger than the others. Was she the last or the first? What was her name?
- Gus Smith: A guy can't help being a German if he's born a German, can he?
- John Kovac: [referring to Willie] Neither can a snake help being a rattlesnake if he's born a rattlesnake! That don't make him a nightingale! Get him out of here!
- Willy: [fixing her diamond bracelet] Looks like bits of ice.
- Connie Porter: I wish they were.
- Willy: They're really nothing but a few pieces of carbon crystallized under high pressure at great heat.
- Connie Porter: Quite so, if you want to be scientific about it.
- Willy: I'm a great believer in science.
- Connie Porter: Like tears, for instance. They're nothing but H2O with a trace of sodium chloride.
- Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: [seeing a bejewelled Connie in a fur coat as he enters the lifeboat] Connie! Did you come from the freighter or the Stork Club?
- John Kovac: [to Ritt] What do you know about a ship?
- Connie Porter: Among other things, he just happens to own a shipyard, that's all.
- John Kovac: Has he ever been in it?
- Connie Porter: [Referring to using her bejeweled bracelet as fish bait] I can reccomend the bait. I know... I bit on it myself.
- [first lines]
- [indistinct shouting]
- John Kovac: Ahoy there!
- [climbs into boat]
- John Kovac: Lady, you certainly don't look like somebody that's just been shipwrecked.
- Connie Porter: Man, I certainly feel like it.
- Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: Now, now, now, we're all sort of fellow travelers in a mighty small boat, in a mighty big ocean. And the more we quarrel, criticize and misunderstand each other, the bigger the ocean gets and the smaller the boat.
- Connie Porter: [about Willy] He's not like us! He's made of iron, we're just flesh and blood! Hungry and thirsty flesh and blood!
- [doubles over sobbing in hunger]
- [while Kovac and Ritt are playing poker, Connie inspects the numerous tattoos on Kovac's chest and arms]
- Connie Porter: What are those letters on your diaphragm?
- John Kovac: Love letters.
- Connie Porter: Oh, you believe in advertising.
- John Kovac: Open.
- Connie Porter: Never could understand this quaint habit of making a billboard out of one's torso.
- Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: Stay.
- John Kovac: Three cards.
- Connie Porter: I must say you've shown the most commendable delicacy in just tattooing the initial... not printing the names, addresses and telephone numbers.
- John Kovac: Open.
- Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: Nines?
- John Kovac: Queens.
- Connie Porter: See, how many are there? One, two, three, four, five.
- John Kovac: Remind me to show you the rest of them sometime.
- Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: I thought everybody was killed. I never expected to see you alive.
- Connie Porter: You know I'm practically immortal, Ritt.
- Alice MacKenzie: Lie down please.
- Gus Smith: What for?
- Alice MacKenzie: You'll be more comfortable. I want to take a look at your leg.
- Gus Smith: Oh, well, okay babe. Maybe you'll let me return the compliment someday.
- John Kovac: As of now I'm skipper, and anybody who don't like it can get out and swim to Bermuda. What about that?
- Gus Smith: I'll buy it.
- Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett: Suits me. What about you, Miss?
- Alice MacKenzie: I'm for it.
- George 'Joe' Spencer: Yes, sir!
- Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: Well, if the rest agree.
- Connie Porter: All right, Commissar, what's the course?
- Connie Porter: [speaking of the disaster] Reminds me of an air raid once that hit me in Chunking.
- John Kovac: Reminds me of a slaughterhouse I once worked in in Chicago. Those Nazi buzzards - a tin fish ain't enough. They've got to shell us too!
- Connie Porter: What part of the ship are you from, darling?
- John Kovac: Engine Room. I was off duty in the Wash Room, thanks, caught with my - I was washing my hands when the torpedo snagged us.
- Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett: He's the champion hoofer of the Merchant Marines.
- Gus Smith: Tell her what I done in Jersey City. Listen, I copped two prizes at Roseland one year and all the time I'm sufferin' something terrible from double-pneumonia. I can out-jive the rest of those hep-cats even with a bum gam.
- Gus Smith: [sees someone in the water with the hands on the side of the lifeboat] Hey, look. Another customer.
- [lifeboat passengers pull him aboard]
- Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: Where did he come from?
- Connie Porter: Is he a crew member?
- John Kovac: I never saw him before.
- George 'Joe' Spencer: Not off our boat.
- Willy: [he speaks] Danke schoen.
- John Kovac: What do you say Joe?
- George 'Joe' Spencer: [black steward speaks] Do I get to vote too?
- Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: Why, why certainly.
- George 'Joe' Spencer: Guess I'd rather stay out of this.
- Mrs. Higley: Where's Johnny? Where's my baby? What have you done with him? What did you do with my baby?
- Connie Porter: You're baby's dead. Don't you remember?
- Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: Sparks?
- Stanley 'Sparks' Garrett: Yes, Mr. Rittenhouse.
- Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: Call me: Ritt. We're all in the same boat.
- Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: Connie, will you keep the ship's log?
- Connie Porter: Righto, Ritto. Providing I control the copyrighting and all publication rights - including the Scandinavian.
- Connie Porter: Kovac, you know something about machinery, don't you?
- John Kovac: I little.
- Connie Porter: [shows him her bracelet] See if you can fix this clasp.
- Charles D. 'Ritt' Rittenhouse: Now children, let's keep our shirts on.
- John Kovac: I haven't got a shirt. Or, a mink coat either.
- Connie Porter: Oh, I get it. A fellow traveler. I thought the Comintern was dissolved.
- Connie Porter: Darling, you want to live, don't you?
- Gus Smith: Not with one leg.
- John Kovac: Don't be a sap, Gus.
- Gus Smith: You don't understand.
- John Kovac: Sure I do: Rosie.
- Connie Porter: What's Rosie got to do with it?
- Gus Smith: Everything. If I lose my leg, I lose Rosie.
- Connie Porter: Of course, I don't know Rosie.
- Gus Smith: She loves to dance. It's her hobby. It's her whole life. Put yourself in her place. Do you like to dance?
- Connie Porter: Mad about it.
- Gus Smith: Well, then, what's good a hep-cat with one gam missin'?
- Connie Porter: Now, you listen to me. I don't know Rosie. But, I know women. Some of my best friends are women. And one of them's - that kind of a...
- Gus Smith: What kind of a?
- Connie Porter: Well, a independent creature who lives her own life.
- Gus Smith: That's Rosie all over.
- Connie Porter: With a heart of gold! And she gives it away.
- Alice MacKenzie: I wasn't particularly anxious to get to London.
- Connie Porter: What are you afraid of in London?
- Alice MacKenzie: Myself. I mean, it's a personal problem. In other words, I...
- Connie Porter: I know, darling. I know. Genus Homo. Male.
- Alice MacKenzie: And married. But, not to me.
- Connie Porter: You call that a problem?
- Alice MacKenzie: It is to me.
- Connie Porter: Fiddlesticks.
- Connie Porter: I don't want to pry into your personal affairs, darling. But, do you know what's the matter with you? You've been reading Kipling: "The sins ye do by two and two, we must pay for one by one."
- Connie Porter: You may call me Connie. You did once, during the storm, remember? You said, "We might as well go down together, eh, Connie." I liked the way you said Connie. Was like a sock in the jaw.
- Connie Porter: That was a dead give away, you know, darling. Wanting us to - die together like that. Dying together's even more personal than living together.
- Connie Porter: You're a low person, darling. Obviously, out of the gutter. Maybe that's why I'm attracted to you. Maybe that's why you're attracted to me.
- John Kovac: Quit slumming.
- Connie Porter: The funny part of it is, I'm from the same gutter.
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