John Banner: You're not only pretty, but you're smart, too. Can you cook?
Amy Clarke: You've got petticoat fever, haven't you?


--Linda Darnell (as ) in Dakota Incident

King Charles II: [at a royal ball] Look at them. My loving subjects. You'd never know that half of them danced in Puritan garb while my father went to the chopping block.
Amber St. Clair: [moved] No wonder you seek solace in amusement, sire.
[slyly]
Amber St. Clair: Can a common trollop help you to forget?


--Linda Darnell (as ) in Forever Amber

Porter Hollingsway: What do you want me to do about it - build you a personal broadcasting system?
Lora Mae Hollingsway: You don't need a station. Just yell a little louder.


--Linda Darnell (as Lora Mae Hollingsway) in A Letter to Three Wives

Carmen Espinosa: All my life I have heard about you.
Doña Sol des Muire: What have you heard?
Carmen Espinosa: Shall I be frank?
Doña Sol des Muire: Please do!
Carmen Espinosa: I've heard you've been all over the world, that you speak many languages, and that you've known a great many men...
Doña Sol des Muire: Go on!
Carmen Espinosa: I've never been out of Andalucia, I speak only one language, and I've had only one man. Maybe that's why I want so much to keep him.
Doña Sol des Muire: Senora Gallardo, is there anything I can offer you?
Carmen Espinosa: Yes, my husband!


--Linda Darnell (as Carmen Espinosa) in Blood and Sand

Jane Norton: If a woman can't hold her man, then it's her own fault. But I'm going to hold mine.


--Linda Darnell (as Jane) in Day-Time Wife

Mark Judd: [Walking over to Stella] I knew you'd come back Stella.
Stella: [looks at him from her chair in disdain, rubbing her sore feet] Okay.


--Linda Darnell (as Stella) in Fallen Angel

Jane Norton: Oh, Ken, you're a dog but you're the nicest dog I know.


--Linda Darnell (as Jane) in Day-Time Wife