Jerry Warriner: [to Barbara Vance on the phone] Naturally she's anxious to meet you, too, but...
Lucy Warriner: Yes, tell her I'd love to meet her. Tell her to wear boxing gloves.


--Irene Dunne (as Lucy Warriner) in The Awful Truth

Jerry Warriner: In a half an hour, we'll no longer be Mr. and Mrs. Funny, isn't it.
Lucy Warriner: Yes, it's funny that everything's the way it is on account of the way you feel.
Jerry Warriner: Huh?
Lucy Warriner: Well, I mean, if you didn't feel that way you do, things wouldn't be the way they are, would they? I mean, things could be the same if things were different.
Jerry Warriner: But things are the way you made them.
Lucy Warriner: Oh, no. No, things are the way you think I made them. I didn't make them that way at all. Things are just the same as they always were, only, you're the same as you were, too, so I guess things will never be the same again.


--Irene Dunne (as Lucy Warriner) in The Awful Truth

Jerry Warriner: What did you tell him?
Lucy Warriner: I told him the truth, and strange enough, he believed me.


--Irene Dunne (as Lucy Warriner) in The Awful Truth

Nick Arden: [discussing how to tell Tim and Chinch that Ellen is their mother] Would it help if I wrote them a letter?
Ellen Wagstaff Arden aka Eve: Oh, that would be nice, yes. 'Enclosed, please find your mother.'


--Irene Dunne (as Ellen Arden) in My Favorite Wife

Nick Arden: The moment I saw you I knew...
Ellen Wagstaff Arden aka Eve: I bet you say that to all your wives.


--Irene Dunne (as Ellen Arden) in My Favorite Wife

Maid: There's only three things can start a woman talkin' to herself: her bank account, her man, and her reputation, aand they all three the same things, ain't they?
Anne Crandall: My my, it certainly is philosophical out tonight.


--Irene Dunne (as ) in Together Again

Clarence Day: Jiminy, another wreck on the New Haven. That always disturbs the stock market. Father won't like that.
Vinnie: I do wish the New Haven would stop having wrecks. If they knew how much it upsets your father.


--Irene Dunne (as Vinnie Day) in Life with father

[Of Susan.]
Susan Dunn's landlady: Such a nice young thing. Not a bit like an American.


--Irene Dunne (as ) in The White Cliffs of Dover

Ellen Wagstaff Arden aka Eve: Oh, by the way, how was my funeral?
Ma: Lovely. Doctor Blake preached a wonderful service.
Ellen Wagstaff Arden aka Eve: Oh, I wish I had been there.


--Irene Dunne (as Ellen Arden) in My Favorite Wife

Ellen Wagstaff Arden aka Eve: Oh, you Casanova, you.


--Irene Dunne (as Ellen Arden) in My Favorite Wife