Dr. Cukrowicz: Insane is such a meaningless term.
Catherine Holly: But lobotomy has only one meaning to it, doesn't it?


--Elizabeth Taylor (as Catherine Holly) in Suddenly, Last Summer

John Wickliff Shawnessy: [On the riverboat with Susanna, visiting the South for the first time] You were right, Mrs. Shawnessy, I like your river. I really do. It even smells good.
Susanna Drake: I knew that you'd understand it. Which is more than most Yankees do. Now, that's something I don't understand. 'Cause all you have to do is go South once and you LOVE it!
John Wickliff Shawnessy: Well, to us Yankees, the South is not too easy to understand... You ever read "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Susanna Drake: [Shocked] "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? Phoo... I haven't married an abolitionist, have I?
John Wickliff Shawnessy: That is the skeleton in my closet.
Susanna Drake: Now, you mustn't joke about it.
Susanna Drake: [Arranging a vast collection of dolls on her bed] Anyway, there's worse things than being an abolitionist.
John Wickliff Shawnessy: Like what?
Susanna Drake: Like having Negro blood in you. Isn't it funny? Just one little teeny drop and a person's all Negro. A person can't always tell, either.


--Elizabeth Taylor (as Susanna Drake Shawnessy) in Raintree County

Mrs. Venable: Doctor, you must cut that lie out of her brain.
Catherine Holly: How MUCH are you willing to pay for that, Aunt Vi?


--Elizabeth Taylor (as Catherine Holly) in Suddenly, Last Summer

Marc Champselle: "No" is not a word that I recognise.
Frances Andros: You've recognised it for the past three months.


--Elizabeth Taylor (as Frances Andros) in The V.I.P.s

Marc Champselle: You? Why should you be scared of him?
Frances Andros: As a child I was scared of the dark.


--Elizabeth Taylor (as Frances Andros) in The V.I.P.s

Paul Lane: Of course I love you.
Helen Ellswirth: Love is never of course.


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

Honey: Oh, I don't know, a little brandy maybe. "Never mix, never worry!"
George: Martha? Rubbing alcohol for you?
Martha: Sure! "Never mix, never worry!"


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

Nick: To you, everybody's a flop. Your husband's a flop, I'm a flop.
Martha: You're all flops. I am the Earth Mother, and you are all flops.


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

Cenci: You missed a fabulous dinner, mummy!
Leonora: You bet your sweet ass.


--Elizabeth Taylor (as ) in Secret Ceremony

[George takes a corner far too fast, tossing everyone in the car from side to side. Pause]
Martha: Aren't you going to apologize?
George: Not my fault, the road should've been straight.
Martha: No, aren't you going to apologize for making Honey throw up?
George: I didn't make her throw up.
Martha: What, you think it was sexy back there? You think he made his own wife sick?
George: Well, you make me sick.
Martha: That's different.


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