- Philip Sutherland: The only way to figure the Russians is to put 2 and 2 together, make 9, add 7, divide by 4... and give up.
- Philip Sutherland: [to Marya, about getting a visa] It just takes time, that's all. You know how it is with red tape. And naturally the Reds have more and redder tape than most... that's a joke, honey.
- Kuragin: [to Philip Sutherland, who's trying to get his wife Marya a visa] I realize it's hard for an American- even for one who has spent 4 years in Russia like you have- to understand our point of view, yet it's simple, it's logical, it's realistic. Suppose we permit our women to leave Russia, to intermarry with the West- America. They're good Communists, therefore, they'll become bad Americans. *Or*, they'll become good Americans, therefore
- [laughs]
- Kuragin: they are bad Communists. Either way, no one is satisfied. Face the issue squarely, Sutherland, and you will see at once there can be logically only one answer.
- Philip Sutherland: You're Joe Brooks, aren't you?
- Joe Brooks: Maybe I am, maybe I ain't.
- Philip Sutherland: The boot up the hill says you know everything there is to know about boats.
- Joe Brooks: That's young Willie. He talks out of his elbow at times. A man's not born yet as knows everything about boats- never will be, neither. Boats isn't like them motor cars they got where you come from, you know, all slicked up and shiny- you press a button and you gets the answer. Oh no, boats is a different story. Boats has got souls.
- Philip Sutherland: [on a boat, looking it over] What's it like sailing a boat like this alone?
- Joe Brooks: Well, that's all according to whether you knows what you're up to. If you do, you're fine and fair. If you don't, you'll drown.
- Philip Sutherland: Suppose you wanted to sail all the way to the Baltic.
- Joe Brooks: Baltic? Who'd want to sail to the Baltic?
- Philip Sutherland: *I* might.
- Joe Brooks: *You* might?
- Philip Sutherland: 'Course, I know it's a long way to the Baltic, but...
- Joe Brooks: It's a long way to the end of the pier in a rowboat, if you don't know how to row.
- Philip Sutherland: A man could learn, Joe.
- Philip Sutherland: So tell me, how come you two got married?
- Christopher Wellington St. John Denny: Hmm? Oh, heh... vodka.
- Philip Sutherland: Vodka?
- Christopher Wellington St. John Denny: That's right, that's what did it. Vodka.
- Philip Sutherland: [leans forward] You mean you were drunk?
- Christopher Wellington St. John Denny: Absolutely, old boy. Blotto. Pickled, tight as a tick.