Hilma Arnesen: A dry punch bowl is against nature.

- Rosemary DeCamp (as Hilma Arnesen) in Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)

Mrs. Korstad: [advising her daughter-in-law at her wedding reception] Do not permit yourself to get fat. Fat has ruined more marriages than actresses and pretty widows.

- Lillian Gish (as Mrs. Bergesen) in Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)

Schoolteacher: [watching a Nazi bookburning] I'm writing a novel myself. I'd be very disappointed if you gentlemen don't burn it.

- George Macready (as Schoolteacher) in Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)

Johan Garme: The herring will run, Germans or no Germans.

- Ray Collins (as Johan Bergesen) in Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)