Effie: Clem...
Clemson Reade: [softly] What?
Effie: I am afraid that we'll have to postpone the wedding till after the oil deal is signed.
Clemson Reade: [alarmed] What?
Effie: I don't see any other way. Truly I don't. There are so many things to get done. Meetings, conferences, reports, and all of them so urgent.
Clemson Reade: So is our wedding.
Effie: But I mean *really* urgent.


--Deborah Kerr (as Effie) in Dream Wife

Hannah Jelkes: Nothing human disgusts me, Mr. Shannon, unless it's unkind, violent.


--Deborah Kerr (as Hannah Jelkes) in The Night of the Iguana

Hannah Jelkes: Oh God, please can't we stop now?


--Deborah Kerr (as Hannah Jelkes) in The Night of the Iguana

Hannah Jelkes: Who wouldn't like to atone for the sins of themselves, and the world, if it could be done in a hammock with ropes, instead of on a Cross, with nails? On a green hilltop, instead of Golgotha, the Place of the Skulls? Isn't that a comparatively comfortable, almost voluptuous Crucifixion to suffer for the sins of the world, Mr. Shannon?


--Deborah Kerr (as Hannah Jelkes) in The Night of the Iguana

Laura Reynolds: Manliness is not all swagger and mountain climbing. It's also tenderness.


--Deborah Kerr (as Laura Reynolds) in Tea and Sympathy

Laura Reynolds: Years from now when you talk about this - and you will - be kind.


--Deborah Kerr (as Laura Reynolds) in Tea and Sympathy

Martha Radcliffe: Did you have any news from him ?


--Deborah Kerr (as ) in The Naked Edge

Miss Giddens: But above anything else, I love the children.


--Deborah Kerr (as Miss Giddens) in The Innocents

Sarah Miles: ...The time ahead is endless.
Father Crompton: Prayer could help to make it shorter.
Sarah Miles: I prayed once too often.
Father Crompton: When we seek God, it means we've already found Him.
Sarah Miles: But I don't want Him, and what does He want with me? What can I offer Him except a shabby second best?
Father Crompton: I'm afraid He's used to that.
Sarah Miles: How sad for Him.


--Deborah Kerr (as ) in The End of the Affair

Sarah Miles: [to Father Compton] ... I know that it sounds absurd now, but I thought I'd prayed him alive. That *is* absurd, isn't it?... But people don't come alive; when they're dead, they're dead as mutton. Well, at any rate, I prayed, I... I made that stupid promise, and then he... he walked into the room. So it was all a mistake...
Sarah Miles: If there is a god, then he put the thought of that prayer in my mind, and I hate him for it.


--Deborah Kerr (as ) in The End of the Affair