Ginger Rogers
(as Jean Maitland)
Jean Maitland:
[crassly screaming from the bottom of the stairs] OH, LINDA!
Linda Shaw: [coming down the stairs] Maybe if you spoke a little LOUDER next time, everyone in the whole HOUSE could hear you.
Jean Maitland: [sarcastically] Oh, I'm sorry, I forget that you're old and deaf.
Linda Shaw: [coming down the stairs] Maybe if you spoke a little LOUDER next time, everyone in the whole HOUSE could hear you.
Jean Maitland: [sarcastically] Oh, I'm sorry, I forget that you're old and deaf.
Ginger Rogers
(as Jean Maitland)
Jean Maitland:
[to Linda Shaw as she is leaving for a dinner date] Don't chew the bones and give yourself away!
Katharine Hepburn
(as Terry Randall)
Jean Maitland:
Do you mind if I ask a personal question?
Terry Randall: Another one?
Jean Maitland: Are these trunks full of bodies?
Terry Randall: Just those, but I don't intend to unpack them.
Terry Randall: Another one?
Jean Maitland: Are these trunks full of bodies?
Terry Randall: Just those, but I don't intend to unpack them.
Ginger Rogers
(as Jean Maitland)
Jean Maitland:
Hey, that's a kind of good-lookin' piece of jackrabbit you got there.
Linda Shaw: Oh, it's just a little trinket my "Aunt Susan" sent over.
Jean Maitland: Say, I think it's very unselfish of those little animals to give up their lives to keep other animals warm.
Linda Shaw: You know, they're very smart little animals. They never give up their lives for the wrong people.
Jean Maitland: Well, you understand the rodent family much better than I do.
Linda Shaw: Oh, it's just a little trinket my "Aunt Susan" sent over.
Jean Maitland: Say, I think it's very unselfish of those little animals to give up their lives to keep other animals warm.
Linda Shaw: You know, they're very smart little animals. They never give up their lives for the wrong people.
Jean Maitland: Well, you understand the rodent family much better than I do.
Eve Arden
(as Eve)
Jean Maitland:
Hey, you're not gonna catch the opening tonight, huh?
Eve: No, I'm going tomorrow and catch the closing.
Eve: No, I'm going tomorrow and catch the closing.
Ginger Rogers
(as Jean Maitland)
Ginger Rogers
(as Jean Maitland)
Katharine Hepburn
(as Terry Randall)
Terry Randall:
[delivering her opening speech in the play within the movie] The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower, suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.
Ginger Rogers
(as Jean Maitland)
Terry Randall:
[entering the boarding house after trying the wrong door] How many doors are there to this place?
Jean Maitland: Well, there's the trap door, the humidor, and the cuspidor. How many doors would you like?
Jean Maitland: Well, there's the trap door, the humidor, and the cuspidor. How many doors would you like?
Katharine Hepburn
(as Terry Randall)
Terry Randall:
[giving her curtain speech at the end of a trimphant opening night performance of the play within the movie] The person you should be applauding died a few hours ago. I hope that wherever she is, she knows and understands and forgives.
