“- Hildy Johnson: I suppose I proposed to you?
- Walter Burns: Well, you practically did, making goo-goo eyes at me for two years until I broke down.”

Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Charles: Are you an adventuress?
- Jean: Of course I am. All women are. They have to be. If you waited for a man to propose to you from natural causes, you'd die of old maidenhood.”
Henry Fonda - Charles
Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“Just give me two days, and then if I don't put a ring on your finger, I guarantee to put a couple under your eyes.”

Lloyd Nolan - Michael Shayne

“Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?”
Robert Charles Benchley - Mr. Osborne

“You and I are in the same boat, Miss Hanson; we're both ghost-ridden. We are prisoners of our past. What if we were to pool our loneliness, and give each other what little we have to give support, friendship?”

Ronald Colman - Charles Rainier