From Here to Eternity

Angelo Maggio:
Only my friends can call me a little wop!

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
A man don't go his own way, he's nothing.

Sergeant Milton Warden:
Maybe back in the days of the pioneers a man could go his own way, but today you got to play ball.

Karen Holmes:
Come back here, Sergeant. I'll tell you the story; you can take it back to the barracks with you. I'd only been married to Dana two years when I found out he was cheating. And by that time I was pregnant. I thought I had something to hope for. I was almost happy the night the pains began. I remember Dana was going to an officers' conference. I told him to get home early, to bring the doctor with him. And maybe he would have... if his "conference" hadn't been with a hat-check girl! He was drunk when he came in at 5 AM. I was lying on the floor. I begged him to go for the doctor, but he fell on the couch and passed out. The baby was born about an hour later. Of course it was dead. It was a boy. But they worked over me at the hospital, they fixed me up fine, they even took my appendix out -- they threw that in free.

Sergeant Milton Warden:
Karen...

Karen Holmes:
And one more thing: no more children. Sure I went out with men after that. And if I'd ever found one that...

Sergeant Milton Warden:
Karen, listen to me, listen.

Karen Holmes:
I know. Until I met you I didn't think it was possible either.

Alma:
Sit down and -- and get comfortable. I'll make you a martini and see what's to cook for dinner.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
Hey, this is like being married, ain't it?

Alma:
It's better.

Karen Holmes:
Are these really important?

Sergeant Milton Warden:
Yes, but not important they get signed today. Tomorrow's okay.

Sergeant Milton Warden:
I have copies at the office, so it won't be much work to fix 'em up.

Karen Holmes:
That's what I like about you, Sergeant: you have confidence. It's also what I dislike about you.

Sergeant Milton Warden:
It's not confidence, ma'am; it's honesty. I just hate to see a beautiful woman going all to waste.

Karen Holmes:
Waste, did you say? There's a subject I might tell you something about. I know several kinds of waste, Sergeant. You're probably not even remotely aware of some of them. Would you like to hear? For instance, what about the house without a child? There's one sort for you. Then there's another... You're doing fine, Sergeant. My husband's off somewhere, and it's raining outside, and we're both drinking now. You've probably only got one thing wrong. The lady herself. The lady's not what she seems. She's a... washout, if you know what I mean... and I'm sure you know what I mean!

Sergeant Milton Warden:
You going to cry?

Karen Holmes:
Not if I can help it. What are you doing?

Sergeant Milton Warden:
I'm leaving. Isn't that what you want?

Karen Holmes:
I don't know, Sergeant. I don't know.

Karen Holmes:
Don't try to be gallant, Sergeant. If you think this is a mistake, come right out and say so. ...Well, I guess it's about time for me to be heading home, isn't it? ...Well, isn't it?

Sergeant Milton Warden:
What's the matter? What started all this, anyway? You think I'd be here if I thought it was a mistake? Taking a chance on 20 years in Leavenworth for making dates with the company commander's wife? And her acting like-- like Lady Astor's horse, and all because I got here on time!

Karen Holmes:
Well, on the other hand, I've got a bathing suit under my dress...

Sergeant Milton Warden:
Me too!

Karen Holmes:
You certainly chose a lovely spot for our meeting. I've had three chances to be picked up in the last five minutes.

Captain Dana Holmes:
You know why you were assigned to G Company?

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
No, sir.

Captain Dana Holmes:
I pulled a few strings. I'm the regimental boxing coach, you know.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
Yes, sir.

Captain Dana Holmes:
I saw your fight with Connors in the Bowl, year before last. You should've won it.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
Thank you, sir.

Captain Dana Holmes:
Our regiment got beaten in the finals last December, but I mean to win this year. All I've needed is a top middleweight.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
I'm sorry, sir. I quit fighting.

Captain Dana Holmes:
Quit fighting? When? What for?

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
Well, over a year ago. Maybe you heard about what happened with Dixie Wells?

Captain Dana Holmes:
You mean that fellow that got hurt?

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
Yes sir.

Captain Dana Holmes:
Yes, I heard about that. It's too bad. I can understand how you feel, but those things happen.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
That's WHY I decided I would quit, sir.

Captain Dana Holmes:
You might as well say stop war because one man got killed!

Alma:
Prew, it's true we love each other now, we need each other, but back in the States it might be different.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
That ain't the real reason.

Alma:
You're right, it's not.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
What is the real reason?

Alma:
I -- I won't marry you because I don't want to be the wife of a soldier.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
Well, that... would be about the best I could ever do for you.

Alma:
Because nobody's going to stop me from my plan. Nobody, nothing. Because I want to be proper!

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
Proper.

Alma:
Yes, proper! In another year I'll have enough money saved. Then I'm going to go back to my home town in Oregon, and I'm going to build a house for my mother and myself, and join the country club and take up golf. Then I'll meet the proper man with the proper position, to make a proper wife, and can run a proper home and raise proper children. And I'll be HAPPY because when you're PROPER you're SAFE!

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
You've got guts, honey. I hope you can pull that off.

Alma:
I do mean it when I say I need you. 'Cause I'm lonely. You think I'm lying, don't you?

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

Sergeant Maylon Stark:
Leva tells me you've been eyeing the Captain's wife like a hound dog at hunting time.

Angelo Maggio:
Let's go to a phone booth or something, huh? Where I will unveil a fifth of whiskey, I have hidden here under my loose, flowing sports shirt.

Annette:
That'll be four bucks, babyface. Two for initiation fee, two for this month's dues.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
What do I get for it?

Annette:
Members are entitled to all privileges of the club, which includes dancing, snack bar, soft drink bar, and gentlemanly relaxation with the opposite gender -- so long as they ARE gentlemen, and no liquor is permitted, got it?

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
Well, what am I? I'm a private no-class dogface. The way most civilians look at that, that's two steps up from nothin'.

Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt:
A man should be what he can do.