- Assistant Dean Emily Godsall: You have been sent here to be finished.
- [girls of Dimsdale Hall laugh]
- Assistant Dean Emily Godsall: I mean, to be polished, shall we say. And speaking of polish, we're all aware of an insidious menace that is invading the American scene. I am referring, of course, to what is vulgarly called: swing music. The uncouth and barbaric rhythm that is exercising a definite psychoneurotic affect on the youth of today. Therefore, girls, in order to protect you from this deleterious influence, we of the faculty must deliver this ultimatum: any girl caught listening to swing music or indulging in jitterbug gyrations will be subject to severe punishment.
- Alice, the Tattletale: [to another student] She's very strict. I guess that's because she's so old. She's twenty-six!
- Swingopater Violinist: Imagine. Barrelhouse Benny Barnes burying himself in a girls monastery.
- Swingopater Trombonist: Now, what chu wanna go and do that fer?
- Benjamin 'Barrelhouse Benny' Barnes: Now, you know why - after what happened that night in Scranton, PA.
- Swingopater Trombonist: You mean de night you popped that piccolo player over the head with a bottle at the Purple Dog?
- Benjamin 'Barrelhouse Benny' Barnes: Oh, she isn't a wet blanket, fellas. She just don't talk our language.
- Swingopater Trombonist: How'd you like Emily to know your past? That you used to be a jive man!
- Benjamin 'Barrelhouse Benny' Barnes: Oh, no, you wouldn't do that!
- Swingopater Trombonist: I wouldn't, eh?
- Dimsdale Dame: Hey, Gary, come on! Get in the groove!
- Jerry, Nick's Nook Soda Jerk: Oh, I can't.
- Dimsdale Dame: Oh, come on! Swing!
- Assistant Dean Emily Godsall: Did you see any girls go in here?
- Atlantic City Doorman: Lady, this place holds 6,000 people - 3,000 of 'em is dames. And you ask me if I seen any gals go in?
- Assistant Dean Emily Godsall: Jerry, give these jitterbugs, or whatever you call them, anything they want. This round's on Godsall!