Alvarez Kelly: Now the main thing to remember is... cattle are like women. Sometimes you have to be firm with them. Sometimes you have to be gentle. And sometimes you have to give them a slap on the rump.


--William Holden (as Alvarez Kelly) in Alvarez Kelly

Bernie Dodd: Does your wife really want you to play this part?
Frank Elgin: Yeah, she's all for it
Bernie Dodd: I was just wondering. The day I met her, she seemed a little difficult about terms and rather domineering, I thought.
Frank Elgin: She wasn't always like that
Bernie Dodd: Oh I know, I know. They all start out as Juliets and wind up as Lady Macbeths.


--William Holden (as Bernie Dodd) in The Country Girl

Capt. Roper: Did you fire that shot?
Cabot Young: Yep!
Capt. Roper: In any other place than this, I'd thank you.
Cabot Young: In any other place, you wouldn't get the chance!
Capt. Roper: Keep the gun!


--William Holden (as Capt. Roper) in Escape from Fort Bravo

Capt. Roper: When you're in the grave, Beecher, it doesn't matter too much how you got there.
Lt. Beecher: Well, I think it matters. I think it does.
Capt. Roper: Write the War Department.


--William Holden (as Capt. Roper) in Escape from Fort Bravo

David Larrabee: I thought you two had eloped! I wouldn't mind, but not in my car.


--William Holden (as David Larrabee) in Sabrina

David Larrabee: Morning, Linus. Where are you off to?
Linus Larrabee: The office. Where do you think?
David Larrabee: The office? On Sunday?
Linus Larrabee: Today is Wednesday.
David Larrabee: Wednesday?


--William Holden (as David Larrabee) in Sabrina

David Larrabee: There's just one thing you overlooked. I haven't proposed and she hasn't accepted.
Linus Larrabee: Oh don't worry. I proposed and Mr.Tyson accepted.
David Larrabee: Did you kiss him?


--William Holden (as David Larrabee) in Sabrina

David Larrabee: What makes you so sure Sabrina still wants me?
Linus Larrabee: Of course she wants you. She's wanted you all her life!
David Larrabee: Until you came along in that silly homburg.
Linus Larrabee: Why don't you straighten that silly straw hat and on your way. You'll miss the boat.
David Larrabee: Don't worry. I won't miss the boat.
[starts walking towards the door]
David Larrabee: Funniest thing. Linus Larrabee, the man who doesn't burn, doesn't scorch, doesn't melt... suddenly throws a twenty million dollar deal out the window.
[stops at the door]
David Larrabee: Are you sure *you* don't want to go with her?
Linus Larrabee: Why should I want to go with her?
David Larrabee: Because you're in love with her.


--William Holden (as David Larrabee) in Sabrina

Donald Gresham: [taking her to his apartment for the first time] Now, you're sure you don't mind coming in?
Patty O'Neill: Quite sure.
Donald Gresham: No qualms?
Patty O'Neill: Not a qualm in the world. And I am not reflecting on your virility either.
Donald Gresham: Let's leave my virility out of this!


--William Holden (as Donald Gresham) in The Moon Is Blue

Eric Erickson: My conscience has always been like a well trained dog. You could tell it to go sit in a corner and be quiet and it would. Since I've known you it hasn't been quite so obedient. It keeps shouting for me to do the very thing that your conscience won't permit.


--William Holden (as ) in The Counterfeit Traitor