Anne Vincent Ives:
Go on, Don Juan, tell me about yourself.
Richard 'Dick' Ives II: Well, there have been women who wanted to park their heads on this manly bosom.
Anne Vincent Ives: At how much an hour?
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Anne Vincent Ives) in Illicit
Richard 'Dick' Ives II: Well, there have been women who wanted to park their heads on this manly bosom.
Anne Vincent Ives: At how much an hour?
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Anne Vincent Ives) in Illicit
Anne Vincent Ives:
Nearly every girl I know, Mr. Ives, is either unhappily married or unhappily divorced, and I've simply come to the conclusion that marriage is disastrous to love. There's so much about it that's all wrong - the awful possession that people exert over each other, the intamicy, and the duties. I don't know... but love can't stand the strain, that's all.
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Anne Vincent Ives) in Illicit
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Anne Vincent Ives) in Illicit
Elizabeth Lane:
[Dudley has told her she has to go to see Yardley to arrange her Christmas with the sailor] Arrange it, are you crazy? Where am I gonna get a farm? I haven't even got a window box!
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Elizabeth Lane) in Christmas in Connecticut
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Elizabeth Lane) in Christmas in Connecticut
Elizabeth Lane:
[Jefferson Jones arrives in the middle of Liz and John's wedding] Oh no, John! It's the sailor! He's two hours early! What'll I do!
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Elizabeth Lane) in Christmas in Connecticut
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Elizabeth Lane) in Christmas in Connecticut
Elizabeth Lane:
Don't you come near me, you seawolf, after the way you deceived me...
Jefferson Jones: I deceived you?
Elizabeth Lane: Yes! You're engaged!
Jefferson Jones: You're married!
Elizabeth Lane: That has nothing to do with it!
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Elizabeth Lane) in Christmas in Connecticut
Jefferson Jones: I deceived you?
Elizabeth Lane: Yes! You're engaged!
Jefferson Jones: You're married!
Elizabeth Lane: That has nothing to do with it!
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Elizabeth Lane) in Christmas in Connecticut
Elizabeth Lane:
Everytime I'd opened my mouth he talked. I felt like Charlie McCarthy.
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Elizabeth Lane) in Christmas in Connecticut
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Elizabeth Lane) in Christmas in Connecticut
Elizabeth Lane:
John, when you're kissing me, don't talk about plumbing.
John Sloan: What? Oh, I'm sorry, what should I talk about?
Elizabeth Lane: Well, do you have to talk?
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Elizabeth Lane) in Christmas in Connecticut
John Sloan: What? Oh, I'm sorry, what should I talk about?
Elizabeth Lane: Well, do you have to talk?
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Elizabeth Lane) in Christmas in Connecticut
Elizabeth Lane:
Maybe scarlet fever. It's a better color for Christmas.
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Elizabeth Lane) in Christmas in Connecticut
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Elizabeth Lane) in Christmas in Connecticut
Elizabeth Lane:
The things a girl will do for a mink coat.
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Elizabeth Lane) in Christmas in Connecticut
--Barbara Stanwyck (as Elizabeth Lane) in Christmas in Connecticut
Gwen Moore:
[to Brecan and Cardigan] The more I see of you two, the more I like elephants.
--Barbara Stanwyck (as ) in Escape to Burma
--Barbara Stanwyck (as ) in Escape to Burma
