Daphne: Dr. Crane, would you mind setting the table?
Niles: Oh, certainly. Just give a yell if there's anything else that you need to have grated.
Daphne: You've done enough grating for one night.

Martin: What'd you bring?
Niles: I have "The Way We Were" and a classic, "Casablanca."
Daphne: Oh, I just love that movie. Is there any more heartbreaking moment in all of film than when Humphrey Bogart tells Ingrid Bergman to get on that plane with Victor Laszlo even though Bogey loves her? What an ending.
Niles: Well, there goes my need to finally see that one.

Frasier: He cares deeply for her and yet he lets her go. Wonder why Bogey did that?
Niles: Well, why don't we put the movie in and find out?
Daphne: Because Laszlo needed her by his side to fight the Nazis.
Martin: Forget the Nazis. No man in his right mind would give up Ingrid Bergman.
Daphne: Oh, sure. Sacrifice the entire free world for a little Swedish meatball?
Martin: Look, I don't like Nazis any more than the next guy, but what's Ingrid going to do with Laszlo?
Daphne: You're missing the point. What makes the movie so romantic is seeing Bogey go from a cynical playboy to a noble self-sacrificing patriot.
Niles: Oh, why don't you just put on some trench-coats and act it out?

Martin: Well your date's gonna be here in a minute. What are we supposed to tell her?
Frasier: Oh, I don't know. Tell her I'm visiting a sick friend or something. Better yet, just tell her the truth. Sometimes two people just aren't meant to be together.
Daphne: Ooh. It's just like Redford and Streisand at the end of "The Way We Were."
Niles: [tossing away the video tape] And that's another one down.

Frasier: Kate, this afternoon I wanted to say something to you but when I found out you were leaving I held back. Well, I'm not holding back any more. I can't stop thinking about you. Not just about the times we
made love but about the possibility that we might have a future together. Now if there's any part of you that wonders the same thing about me, we owe it to ourselves to see it through. You see, if you get on that plane tonight you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of our lives.

Martin: Frasier, what are you doing here? Look, Donna stayed to watch "Casablanca" with us.
Frasier: Donna, hi.
Donna: Hello, Frasier. How's your friend?
Martin: In the hospital.
Frasier: Oh, he's doing much better actually. They're thinking of sending him home tomorrow.
Donna: After a heart transplant?
Frasier: Well, he's with an HMO.

[After Kate is whisked away on a buggy, Frasier notices the meowing cat]
Frasier: Well, Louie. This looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Niles: I notice you're grating that carrot at a 45-degree angle. Does that enhance the flavor?
Daphne: No, no. Just an old habit.
Niles: Ah! And why exactly did you choose to grate carrots?
Daphne: Because we have carrots.
Niles: I hope you don't mind all the questions. It's just now that I'm separated it's time that learned to cook for myself.
Daphne: It's quite alright. Tell you what. Why don't you grate while I put the chicken in?
Niles: Thousands of little metal teeth able to tear the flesh right off your...
[Niles tries to grate the carrot, but catches his finger instead. He jumps back in and knocks Daphne, who drops one of the chickens]
Niles: Yow! No, no, false alarm. Normally I bleed like the Russian royal Family, but not today.

Daphne: You can't let fear of rejection stop you Dr. Crane.
Frasier: Well, you know Daphne, it's just not that easy really. Maybe I'm letting this romantic fantasy run away with me. The truth is we don't really know each other very well and, if she did reject me, I'd end up going to work every day feeling like a fool.
Martin: Hey, am I getting a whiff of chicken here?
Frasier: Oh fine, Dad! Frankly, I've had enough of you and your adolescent wisecracks. I am not "chicken." I am just merely hesitant. All right, I will ask her out tomorrow. Fine. I hope that makes you happy! [Frasier storms out]
Martin: I just thought I smelled dinner.

Frasier: This is Dr. Frasier Crane. We'll be right back after this.
Roz: OK, after this spot we're gonna come back in 15 seconds, you do a station ID and then toss it to the news. I'll count you down.
Frasier: That won't be necessary. I have a built in mental stopwatch. As a child playing "Hide and Go Seek", I was the only one who didn't need to say, "One Hippopotamus Two Hippopotamus."
Roz: Frasier, I've heard you. You're always either talking into the news or running short.
Frasier: I am not.
Roz: I'll bet you 20 bucks you blow this one.
Frasier: All right, you're on.
Roz: No, you are. [Roz runs back to her booth.]
Frasier: Hello, we're back. This is Dr. Frasier Crane tuning in for our second hour on the "Dr. Frasier Crane Show." In our first hour we covered everything from anorexia to xenophobia. What will be next? As always of course that's entirely up to you. So stick around. The Doctor is in and he's listening.
[Frasier finishes, proud with himself until...] Ooh, this is KACL 780 AM!