- Col. Homer W. Gooch: You look peaked, what's wrong with you?
- Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin: A little off my feet, I guess.
- Col. Homer W. Gooch: What have you been eating?
- Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin: Gnawing at myself, mostly.
- Col. Homer W. Gooch: Well I should think that old tough battle-scarred carcass of yours would be highly indigestible, ha ha ha ha ha ha!
- Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin: Certainly is, I can't keep it down.
- General Daniel A. Grimshaw: I did all I could. I'm just repeating what the Joint Chiefs yelled at me.
- Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin: What a bunch of -...
- General Daniel A. Grimshaw: I agree! I stood up for you. I argued till I was blue in the face. I said you were a tactical genius and a perfect officer... but I also had to admit you didn't know as much about women as you thought you did.
- Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale: [In front of the courthouse] You stay away from me or I'll kill you!
- Maj. Gen. Melville A. Goodwin: Not here, Miss Peale. Don't you know the old saying, "generals die in bed"?
- Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale: Phil, stick around, huh?
- Phil Bentley: Uh-uh, it's against my religion. I'm a devout coward.