“- Ruth Matthews: Everybody goes off into their own worlds sometimes; I do!
- Jake Beerlander: Yes, of course we all do, but we come back.”
Kathleen Turner - Ruth Matthews
Tommy Lee Jones - Jake Beerlander

“- Hildy Johnson: He treats me like a woman.
- Walter Burns: Oh he does, doesn't he? How did I treat you? Like a water buffalo?”

Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Mollie Malloy: Aren't they inhuman?
- Hildy Johnson: I know. They're newspapermen.
- Mollie Malloy: All they've been doing is lying. All they've been doing is writing lies. Why won't they listen to me?”
Helen Mack - Mollie Malloy
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“Can't you understand? I'm trying to do something noble for once in my life. Now get out of here before I change my mind. Come on.”

Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Maggie Ryan: You don't act like a good girl, you don't talk like a good girl, and you don't dress like a good girl.
- Sarah Jane Ryan: I act and talk and dress exactly how I please. But technically I'm still a good girl.”
Una O'Connor - Maggie Ryan
Ann Sheridan - Sarah Jane Ryan