Makesh: There is a small trouble, but it is a small trouble several times. Thus it becomes a large touble.
Gwen Moore: If we face it together, it will only be half as large.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as ) in Escape to Burma

Joe Doyle: Why didn't you come home before?
Mae Doyle D'Amato: Why didn't I go to China? Some things you do, some things you don't.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Mae Doyle D'Amato) in Clash by Night

Mark Caldwell: You know, if I was to bring this battle of the wits down to direct insults, I'd say you were one of the most cold-blooded, scheming women I've ever met in my life!
Sandra Marshall: You've already said that.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Sandra Marshall) in Cry Wolf

Bill Standish: Ever done any posing before?
Kay Arnold: I'm always posing.
Bill Standish: How do you spend your nights?
Kay Arnold: Re-posing.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Kay Arnold) in Ladies of Leisure

Judge Forbes: [trying to bribe Kitty to give David up] I thought you'd prefer cash. Five thousand dollars. Merely for leaving town, immediately.
Kitty Lane: [She looks down at the bills in his hand, and slowly raises her head with a look of anger and contempt in her eyes.] What are you trying to make of me--what you wish I was? Something cheap and common, something that money can buy?
[her anger rising]
Kitty Lane: Well, you can't. Nobody can! You and the nice, decent people who sent you here are the real cheap ones ... trying to put a price on something there isn't any price for.
[almost hysterical now]
Kitty Lane: If that's being decent, I'm glad I'm common!
[crying and screaming]
Kitty Lane: If that's being rich, I'm glad I'm cheap, and I'm gonna stay cheap! Because no matter how cheap I am, I'm not for sale!
[She throws the money in his face and runs out.]


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Kitty Lane) in Shopworn

John Sargent: You threw a lighted match into the wastebasket?
Lee Leander: Well I wasn't aiming for the spittoon.
John Sargent: You know that's called arson?
Lee Leander: No! I thought that was when you bit somebody!


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Lee Leander) in Remember the Night

Richard Sturges: [after Richard and Julia have been quarreling over who will have custody of their son] May dear Julia, I've been around enough bridge tables to recognize someone who's holding a high trump - play it now if you will.
Julia Sturges: We'll discuss it later.
Richard Sturges: Now!
Julia Sturges: All right, Richard. One question first?
Richard Sturges: If it's about Norman, you know the answer. No court in the world, no power in the heavens can force me to give up my son.
Julia Sturges: He is not your son.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Julia Sturges) in Titanic

Richard Sturges: You crazy woman. You're talking about the most important thing in my life. I have plans for Norman.
Julia Sturges: What plans? That he should grow up to be you?
Richard Sturges: Possibly. I'm satisfied. Is it so extraordinary that I should want to have some hint, some portion of myself survive?
Julia Sturges: Some portion of... Oh yes, I forgot, the best dressed man of his day. That's what they're going to put on your tombstone. Well, that may be all right for you, but I won't have it for Norman. He stays with me!


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Julia Sturges) in Titanic

Sam Masterson: [seeing she's married Walter] Aren't you glad now you missed that circus train?
Martha Ivers: ...I'm not sure.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Martha Ivers) in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Sam Masterson: How did it feel to become a woman, officially?
Martha Ivers: I felt like I'd been there before, too.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Martha Ivers) in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers