- Miss Evans: How awful that Manuela was so drunk.
- Mademoiselle Qeuillet: Mon Dieu, sometimes you just have to drink. If you're angry or worried. I understand.
- Fraulein von Bernburg: You must come to your senses. You must recover, whatever it takes.
- Manuela: Recover? From what?
- Fraulein von Bernburg: You're not allowed to love me... so much.
- Frau Oberin: You must reduce expenses, they are too high.
- Fraulein von Kesten: We do our best, Frau Oberin. The children complain they are hungry.
- Frau Oberin: Hungry? We Prussians have always been hungry. They are the daughters of soldiers and, God willing, mothers of soldiers too. What they need is discipline, not a life of luxury.
- Manuela von Meinhardis: When you say goodnight and shut the door to your room I stare at the door in the darkness. I want to get up and come to you but I know that I can't. I think about when I leave the school and you'll still be here. And every night you kiss new girls...
- Fraulein von Bernburg: What a silly idea!
- Manuela von Meinhardis: I love you so, but you're always so distant. I can't ever go to your room, or talk to you, or...
- Fraulein von Bernburg: Pull yourself together child. Forget you're a young girl and be a good friend. You know I can't make exceptions or the other girls will be jealous. But I think of you often, Manuela.
- Manuela von Meinhardis: Girls! I want to give a speech. I love you all. Shall I tell you a secret?
- Ilse von Westhagen, Marga von Rasso, Ilse von Treischke, Edelgard Komtesse von Mengsberg, Mia von Wollin: Yes!
- Manuela von Meinhardis: She gave me a present. An undergarment. And I'm wearing it.
- Ilse von Westhagen, Marga von Rasso, Ilse von Treischke, Edelgard Komtesse von Mengsberg, Mia von Wollin: An undergarment?
- Manuela von Meinhardis: She opened her closet and gave me one of her undergarments. I'm supposed to wear it and think of her. No, she didn't say that, but she didn't have to, I just know. I'm so happy because I know for sure, she - she loves me.
- Frl. von Bernburg: You must be brought to your senses. You must be cured, whatever it takes.
- Manuela von Meinhardis: Cured? Of what?
- Frl. von Bernburg: You're not allowed to - love me in that way.
- Manuela von Meinhardis: Why?
- Ilse von Treischke: Do you know what dorm you're in?
- Manuela von Meinhardis: Marga says I'm in Miss von Bernburg's.
- Ilse von Treischke, Ilse von Westhagen: Wow!
- Ilse von Westhagen: Me too. Well, don't fall in love.
- Manuela von Meinhardis: But why?
- Ilse von Westhagen: Almost all the girls here have a crush on Miss von Bernburg. Oh, God! When I finally don't have to listen to that anymore. "Ilse! I envy you! You're in her dormitory! Oh, gosh, gosh, gosh! Tell me, is it true that she kisses you at night?"
- Edelgard Komtesse von Mengsberg: I mustn't give up, says my mom. "The Fatherland needs people of steel."
- Friend: My mom was here too for four years. Did she forget how awful it is?
- Frau Oberin: You're responsible for this uproar, I won't allow revolutionary ideas. As long as I am in charge, it won't happen here.
- Fraulein von Bernburg: I won't cling to my post. I know I can't stay here. I can't stand by and watch children made into scared, helpless creatures.
- Ilse von Westhagen: You know what the headmistress said? "She has nice legs, nice legs."
- Manuela von Meinhardis: What did Miss von Bernburg say?
- Ilse von Westhagen: It was strange. Bernburg didn't say a single thing the whole time. But the way she looked at you, you can't even imagine.
- Exzellenz von Ehrenhardt - Manuelas Tante: Manuela, pull yourself together. A soldiers' daughter crying!
- Fraulein von Bernburg: I try to be a friend to the children.
- Frau Oberin: On equal terms?
- Fraulein von Bernburg: Why not?
- Frau Oberin: How can you maintain your authority?
- Fraulein von Attems: We must stimulate their competitive spirit.
- Frau Oberin: Precisely, Fraulein von Attems.
- Ilse von Westhagen: Mia put up pictures of Henny Porten. But I've got Hans Albers. He has such - what do you call that again? What do you call what all movie stars have?
- Mia von Wollin: Sex appeal!
- Frl. von Bernburg: You got yourself into a fine mess.
- Ilse von Westhagen: Yes.
- Frl. von Bernburg: Well, it's not that bad. I don't get to be in the play either, right? Now wash up and come downstairs.
- [Spanks Ilse's behind and leaves]
- Ilse von Westhagen: My, she's so lovely.
- [smiling]
- Manuela von Meinhardis: I fear nothing. Yes! Everybody should know! Long live our beloved Miss von Bernburg!
- Exzellenz von Ehrenhardt - Manuelas Tante: She's a half-orphan. My brother-in-law is certainly a good man. But you know what those army officers are like. They have no idea how to educate a young girl.
- Frl. von Bernburg: So you're the new one? Let me take a look. It suits you. Turn around. Your hair needs to be neater. Everything pinned in. There you go. Why are you shaking? Are you nervous?
- Manuela von Meinhardis: No.
- Frl. von Bernburg: Good. Manuela, I require total discipline.
- Frl. von Kesten: Meinhardis, come here. This is where I enter my good and bad marks. If I ever find something forbidden in your closet, then you get a bad mark. And if you have more than five bad marks in four weeks, you won't get your day out. So, watch out!
- Frl. von Bernburg: Come here. Don't tell yourself that it's awful here. You haven't gotten used to it yet. You don't know the other girls. But you can't tell yourself that you'll be unhappy here. Listen. You have to tell yourself that you'll be very happy here. And you have to pray to God every night to ask him for His help.
- Frl. von Kesten: Line up for prayers! Forward! Closer! Closer! Forward! Forward! Closer! Line up on the left.
- Oberin des Stifts: Poverty is not sin, poverty ennobles. This is the true meaning of Prussianism as it once was. Let the others splurge. They'll regret it.
- Frl. von Bernburg: We must be a home for the children. Their mothers.
- Oberin des Stifts: We are a facility. There is no room for affinities. That only leads to infatuation.
- Frl. von Kesten: Always love. Discipline is our focus.
- Oberin des Stifts: It's inconceivable. You were acting like some urchin from the street. You're bringing shame to the entire school!
- Oberin des Stifts: People like you are banned from society. You'll find out about your punishment later. I'm sure you know that you sinned against Miss von Bernburg. She'll never forgive you.
- Manuela von Meinhardis: But what did I do?
- Oberin des Stifts: Aren't you ashamed of yourself? An embarrassment! Since this school opened there hasn't been such a scandal. You're the worst child that has ever been accepted. If you were younger, you'd be spanked.