- Il maresciallo Polenza: [looks at a map of Italy, then covers Sicily with his hands] Better! Much better! Or maybe an atomic bomb.
- Francesca Ascalone: You have to make an effort. Look at your sisters. Look how nice and fat Matilde is. You're spindly as a spider.
- Agnese Ascalone: That's just how I am!
- Don Mariano - il prete: Wicked girl, you gave in!
- Agnese Ascalone: I'm ashamed and disgusted with myself.
- Don Mariano - il prete: You weren't disgusted in the throes of lust!
- Agnese Ascalone: I was right afterwards, Father.
- Don Mariano - il prete: To late, you shameless girl.
- Don Mariano - il prete: Shame on you! Shame on you! You must triumph over the devil. Pray. Mortify the flesh. Pray! Pray! Pray! Pray!
- Peppino Califano: I don't want Agnese.
- Orlando Califano: What?
- Amalia Califano: What's that?
- Peppino Califano: I want a virgin for a wife. Why should I give up that right?
- Orlando Califano: But you saw Don Vincenzo.
- Peppino Califano: Answer me this: In all honesty, would you have married Mama if she'd done what Agnese did with me?
- Orlando Califano: What's that got to do with it?
- Amalia Califano: You tried to get me to.
- Orlando Califano: So? It's a man's right to ask, a woman's duty to refuse.
- Peppino Califano: Exactly! Agnese didn't refuse, did she? I won't marry that whore!
- L'avvocato Ascalone: So what brings you here?
- [Vincenzo shows him a doctor's report]
- L'avvocato Ascalone: Something serious?
- Don Vincenzo Ascalone: Yes.
- L'avvocato Ascalone: Tumor?
- Don Vincenzo Ascalone: Honor.
- Agnese Ascalone: I'll become a nun!
- Don Vincenzo Ascalone: Enough blasphemy! You're a whore, not a nun!
- Zio Carmela: Eat and drink while you still can. I'm a miserable wreck. My gall bladder's swollen up and I can't sleep at night. You're lucky to be young and happy. Winter's returning and my rheumatism with it and my heart's in bad shape. The doctor says it's blood pressure. I'm constipated. I'm constipated! What can I do? A friend tells me to take India root. Vincenzo, you know a lot. Will India root help? Who knows?
- Il maresciallo Polenza: What are you doing? She says no and you put no? You think we're in Treviso? This is Sicily. "No" could mean "yes."
- L'avvocato Ciarpetta: The law is very clear. Article 544. All your offenses, listed in Article 530 - rape, corruption of a minor, et cetera - are nullified by marriage of the offended party. In short: He has to marry her.
- Peppino Califano: I won't do it! Better jail than marrying that tramp!
- L'avvocato Ciarpetta: Don't try the same story on us that you gave the judge. Even he didn't fall for it. You seduced her!
- Peppino Califano: Ah, so if I marry her, she's suddenly pure again?
- L'avvocato Ciarpetta: Certainly.
- Peppino Califano: Nice logic!
- Il brigadiere Bisigato: With all due respect, sir, I don't understand.
- Il maresciallo Polenza: You can't Bisigato. It's a question of honor. It's always a question of honor.
- Antonio Ascalone: You don't want me to kill a man you loved, do you? Agnese?
- Agnese Ascalone: Tear the dirty coward's eyes out!
- Antonio Ascalone: What was that? Agnese?
- Il maresciallo Polenza: How old are you?
- Agnese Ascalone: Almost 16.
- Il maresciallo Polenza: Ah, a minor.
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