Jessica Drummond: I'm not interested in *you*, Mr. Bonnell. It's your trademark.
[gestures at his gun, purring]
Jessica Drummond: May I feel it?
Griff Bonnell: Uh-uh.
Jessica Drummond: Just curious.
Griff Bonnell: It might go off in your face.
Jessica Drummond: I'll take a chance.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Jessica Drummond) in Forty Guns

Jessica Drummond: There are two sides to everything - even gossip.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Jessica Drummond) in My Reputation

Joan Gordon, aka Francine La Rue: I've been up and down Broadway since I was fifteen years old. I'm fed up with hoofing in shows. I'm sick of night clubs, hustlers, bootleggers, chislers, and smart guys. I've heard all the questions and I know all the answers. And I've kept myself... fairly respectable through it all. The whole atmosphere of this street gives me a high-powered headache. I've got a chance to breathe something else, and boy, I'm grabbing it.
Eddie 'Ed' Fields: Pick up the marbles, hon, you win.
Joan Gordon, aka Francine La Rue: [Hands him some jewelry] By the way, here's a couplea trinkets I want to return to you. Might as well do it now.
Eddie 'Ed' Fields: Sure you don't want to keep this hardware?
Joan Gordon, aka Francine La Rue: Positive.
[Reaches into a drawer, takes out a key, and hands it to him]
Eddie 'Ed' Fields: All through playing house?
Joan Gordon, aka Francine La Rue: All through, Eddie. Thanks.
Eddie 'Ed' Fields: Well, so long kid. It was swell while it lasted.
Joan Gordon, aka Francine La Rue: [Almost smiling, softly] Yeah.
[Eddie turns and leaves]


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Joan Gordon) in The Purchase Price

Julia Sturges: [after losing the argument with Richard, when their daughter decides not to stay with her mother in Michigan but to return to Europe with her father on the next boat] Thank you, Richard. You were most helpful. Now you see why I wanted to steal a little more time.
Richard Sturges: Please, Julia. Let's not bicker, since there's no love lost between us.
Julia Sturges: That's the tragic part, Richard. There's been so much love lost between us.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Julia Sturges) in Titanic

Kathy Ferguson Doyle: I hope all your socks have holes in them and I can sit for hours and hours darning them.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Kathy Ferguson Doyle) in Crime of Passion

Kay Arnold: I feel like getting into trouble!


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

Kay Arnold: When a dress costs over a hundred bucks, it's a frock!


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

Kay Arnold: You know the old bromide: when in Greece, open a restaurant.


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

Kitty Lane: [to her Uncle Fred, who runs a greasy spoon] Your thoughts are just like your kitchen ... dirty.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Kitty Lane) in Shopworn

Kitty Lane: [waiting on David at the diner] ... How come *you* never annoyed me?
David Livingston: Well, I don't like to compete with the whole college.
Kitty Lane: If I owned this joint I'd bust ya in the nose for that.
David Livingston: [looking up from the book he has been studying] Yes, and if I were your brother instead of a customer here, I'd spank you. I'd like to finish this chapter.
Kitty Lane: Well, go ahead, finish it someplace else where they burn incense or something.
David Livingston: Alright, I will. I don't like this place anyhow. You may be hot, but the coffee's cold.
[gets up to leave]
David Livingston: Keep the change.
Kitty Lane: [throws David's coin on the floor; then, under her breath:] Pinhead .... Nitwit ....
Kitty Lane: [finds his hat on the chair] Hey, you forgot your hat.
[runs after him]
Kitty Lane: Hey stupid, you forgot your hat!


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Kitty Lane) in Shopworn