- Maud St. James: I'm 37, Henry, and I think it's time I started to live. I realize that I've missed a great many things, and I want to get them before it's too late. I want to stay up late before it's too late for me to stay up late.
- Prof. Killick: [With Capt. St. James and others at table in the ship's dining room] Captain, the trouble with the human race is, that it's entirely sub-human.
- Capt. Henry St. James: There, Professor, I must raise a small cry of protest.
- Prof. Killick: I ignore it. Mankind has consistently misused science, ever since Prometheus brought down fire from Heaven.
- Capt. Henry St. James: In my opinion... I was just going to say, that the only hope for civilization...
- Prof. Killick: [Interrupting] There isn't any!
- Capt. Henry St. James: ...is that every device of science - radio, television, all of them - shall be used to show one half of the world how the other lives.
- Mr. Wheeler: Well put, Captain.
- Capt. Henry St. James: Within reason, of course...
- Chief Officer Ricco: Mrs. 'Gibraltar' St. James: she's in there.
- Capt. Henry St. James: I know.
- Chief Officer Ricco: Madame 'Kalik' St. James: she's also in there.
- Capt. Henry St. James: I'm quite aware of the fact.
- Chief Officer Ricco: Then what do we do?
- Capt. Henry St. James: In the words of a famous English statesman, "We cultivate the faculty of patient expectancy." We wait and see.
- Maud St. James: [delighted with her new vacuum cleaner] When you go off on your old ship tomorrow, I'm going to plug this in and give this house the biggest spring cleaning it's ever had.
- Capt. Henry St. James: That's the girl! Man toils and women spins.
- Capt. Henry St. James: [referring to his two wives] That, Rico, is my solution to man's happiness on Earth. Two happy women, each in their way perfect, and in between the company of men, the clash of intellects to stimulate the mind.
- Chief Officer Ricco: I'll introduce myself ladies... Chief Officer Ricco.
- Susan Dailey: I'm Miss Dailey... and this is Miss Bligh.
- Chief Officer Ricco: To you, Carlos.
- Daphne Bligh: [rudely] And To YOU, Miss Dailey. and Miss Bligh.
- Capt. Henry St. James: [On the bridge, musing out loud to no one in particular] 'He that would enter paradise must have a golden key.'
- Chief Officer Ricco: [Overhearing] You said something about a key, captain...
- Capt. Henry St. James: I was merely quoting, Ricco, an old proverb.
- Capt. Henry St. James: [Greeting Susan Dailey and Daphne Bligh at table in the ship's dining room] Good evening. I hope you're enjoying your trip... I can thoroughly recommend the Brown Windsor Soup.
- Chief Officer Ricco: A great man. A genius. One day the world will know of his great work.
- Lawrence St. James: His what?
- Chief Officer Ricco: His search for the secret of happiness.
- Lawrence St. James: Oh, don't tell me he was still after that?
- Chief Officer Ricco: Still?
- Lawrence St. James: Well, he was always after it - ever since he was a student. The perfect way of life. There was always a floor. He tried Persia, Tibet, even Australia.
