- Maria, la servetta: What's the matter, Mr. Umberto?
- Umberto Domenico Ferrari: I'm tired.
- Maria, la servetta: Of her?
- Umberto Domenico Ferrari: it's a little of everything.
- Umberto Domenico Ferrari: I have no one, no son or brother, to help me out. I'm just a good-for-nothing old man.
- Umberto Domenico Ferrari: Who can live on 18,000 lire these days? My landlady charges me 10,000. She even raised my rent, that old -...
- Orazio Valenti: Go ahead and say it. We're both men. If she's a bitch, she's a bitch.
- Umberto Domenico Ferrari: During the war she called me Grandpa. I gave her some meat from time to time. After the war she went crazy. She even hates my dog. If you saw my dog, you'd know it's impossible to hate him.
- Umberto Domenico Ferrari: Listen, you need to leave as well. There are lots of jobs in Rome. Don't stay here.
- Maria, la servetta: She'll kick me out the minute she finds out I'm pregnant.
- Umberto Domenico Ferrari: Can't you go back to your hometown?
- Maria, la servetta: My father would beat me.
- Maria, la servetta: Can you see anything, Mr. Umberto?
- Umberto Domenico Ferrari: No, nothing.
- Maria, la servetta: You can a little. Did you know I'm pregnant?
- Umberto Domenico Ferrari: My God. And you say it just like that?
- Maria, la servetta: How do you want me to say it?