Lieutenant Ware Quotes in The Enemy Below (1957)

Lt. Mackeson: [Discussing the new captain] I still don't see why they didn't move Ware up. He's been exec long enough.

Lieutenant Ware: [Joking] My dear Mackenson, the only craft I've ever commanded was a yawl in the Miami yacht races. And the nearest I ever came to winning that was twenty-ninth. The Navy may have been desperate enough to put me in uniform, but not foolish enough to let me sail away by myself.

[the ship has just avoided two torpedoes]

Lieutenant Ware: The Miami yacht races were never like this.

Doctor: Captain Murrell oughtn't to be here at all. He's as weak as a kitten. A man that gets his ship torpedoed and spends 25 days on a raft in the North Atlantic oughtn't to have to hit the ball again with only a few days in the hospital. I guess there aren't enough commanding officers to go around. Well, at least they gave him an easy ship.

Lt. Bonelli: Huh! Boy, easy's no word for it. Listen, he'd get more rest on this boat...

Lieutenant Ware: Ship!

Lt. Bonelli: Ship, boat, what's the difference? He'd still get more rest here than he would if he were in a feather bed. Me, I'd like something to happen once in a while.

Lieutenant Ware: If the Navy ever gets a load of this salty crew in battle, they'll send us all back to boot camp. I'll look so ridiculous with my head shaved.