John Cedar: Your Honor, this is absurd. The woman's obviously in love with him.
Babe Bennett: What's that got to do with it?
John Cedar: Well, you are in love with him, aren't you?
Babe Bennett: What's that got to do with it?
John Cedar: You ARE, aren't you?
Babe Bennett: Yes!


--Jean Arthur (as Babe Bennett) in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Jefferson Smith: Well, what do you expect me to do? An honorary stooge like me against the Taylors and Paines and machines and lies?
Clarissa Saunders: Your friend, Mr. Lincoln had his Taylors and Paines. So did every other man who ever tried to lift his thought up off the ground. Odds against them didn't stop those men. They were fools that way. All the good that ever came into this world came from fools with faith like that. You know that, Jeff. You can't quit now. Not you. They aren't all Taylors and Paines in Washington. That kind just throw big shadows, that's all. You didn't just have faith in Paine or any other living man. You had faith in something bigger than that. You had plain, decent, everyday, common rightness, and this country could use some of that. Yeah, so could the whole cockeyed world, a lot of it. Remember the first day you got here? Remember what you said about Mr. Lincoln? You said he was sitting up there, waiting for someone to come along. You were right. He was waiting for a man who could see his job and sail into it, that's what he was waiting for. A man who could tear into the Taylors and root them out into the open. I think he was waiting for you, Jeff. He knows you can do it, so do I.


--Jean Arthur (as Clarissa Saunders) in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Tony Kirby: I was just thinking about that family of yours. Living with them must be like living in a world of Walt Disney. Everybody does just as he pleases, doesn't he?
Alice Sycamore: Yes, Grandpa started it. He just suddenly left business one day. He started up in the elevator, turned around and came right down again -- and never went back. He could have been a rich man, but said he wasn't having any fun.


--Jean Arthur (as Alice Sycamore) in You Can't Take It With You

Tony Kirby: That family of yours, boy, they knock me for a loop. I don't know, it... it just seemed like, in their own way, they've found what everybody's looking for. I mean, people spend their whole lives building castles in the air and then nothing ever comes of it. I wonder why that is. Well it takes courage Everybody's afraid to live.
Alice Sycamore: You ought to hear Grandpa on that subject. You know he says most people nowadays are run by fear. Fear of what they eat, fear of what they drink, fear of their jobs, their future, fear of their health. They're scared to save money, and they're scared to spend it. You know what his pet aversion is? The people who commercialize on fear, you know they scare you to death so they can sell you something you don't need.


--Jean Arthur (as Alice Sycamore) in You Can't Take It With You

Benjamin Dingle: How do you do?
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: How do you do?
Benjamin Dingle: I'm Benjamin Dingle.
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: You certainly are.
Benjamin Dingle: Now about that apartment...
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: I'm sorry, I've already rented it.
Benjamin Dingle: Just a moment, young lady. Do you think you know me well enough to lie to me?
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: Yes.


--Jean Arthur (as Connie Milligan) in The More the Merrier

Joe Carter: Have you got an aspirin?
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: No, but I've got a headache!


--Jean Arthur (as Connie Milligan) in The More the Merrier

Joe Carter: I love you Connie. Did you hear what I said?
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: Yes.
Joe Carter: Well, if you feel the same way would you tell me?
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: Would you stay right where you are?
Joe Carter: Yes.
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: I love you more than anything in the world.


--Jean Arthur (as Connie Milligan) in The More the Merrier