Velvet Brown: I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.


--Elizabeth Taylor (as Velvet Brown) in National Velvet

Charles Wills: What kind of wife are you, dancing with other men?
Helen Ellswirth: The average kind.


--Elizabeth Taylor (as ) in The Last Time I Saw Paris

Charles Wills: You're a girl after my own heart.
Helen Ellswirth: Make no mistake, I'm after it.


--Elizabeth Taylor (as ) in The Last Time I Saw Paris

Chris Flanders: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, a stately pleasure-dome decree. Where Alph, the sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man down to a sunless sea.
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth: WhaaAAAT?


--Elizabeth Taylor (as ) in Boom!

George: Did you really think I was going to kill you, Martha?
Martha: You, kill me? That's a laugh.
George: Well now, I might some day.
Martha: Fat chance.


--Elizabeth Taylor (as Martha) in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

George: I used to drink brandy.
Martha: You used to drink bergen, too.


--Elizabeth Taylor (as Martha) in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

George: You can sit around with the gin running out of your mouth; you can humiliate me; you can tear me to pieces all night, that's perfectly okay, that's all right.
Martha: You can stand it!
George: I cannot stand it!
Martha: You can stand it, you married me for it!


--Elizabeth Taylor (as Martha) in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

George: You're a monster - You are.
Martha: I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not.
George: You're a spoiled, self-indulgent, willful, dirty-minded, liquor-ridden...
Martha: SNAP! It went SNAP! I'm not gonna try to get through to you any more. There was a second back there, yeah, there was a second, just a second when I could have gotten through to you, when maybe we could have cut through all this, this CRAP. But it's past, and I'm not gonna try.


--Elizabeth Taylor (as Martha) in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Julius Caesar: Ah, yes. I seem to recall some mention of an obsession you have about your divinity... Isis, isn't it?
Cleopatra: I shall have to insist that you mind what you say. I AM Isis. I am worshipped by millions who believe it. You are not to confuse what I am with the so-called divine origin which every Roman general seems to acquire together with his shield. It was, uh, Venus you chose to be descended from, wasn't it?


--Elizabeth Taylor (as Cleopatra) in Cleopatra

Julius Caesar: Germanicus! A guard to escort Queen Cleopatra to her apartments.
Germanicus: Guard!
Cleopatra: The corridors are dark gentlemen, but you mustn't be afraid. I am with you.


--Elizabeth Taylor (as Cleopatra) in Cleopatra