Alicia Huberman: Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me that you have a wife and two adorable ch...ildren, and this madness between us can't go on any longer. T.R. Devlin: I bet you've heard that line often enough. Alicia: Right below the belt every time. Oh that isn't fair, Dev. Devlin: Skip it. We have other things to talk about. We have a job.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Captain Prescott: I don't like this. I don't like her coming here. Mr. Beardsley: She's had me worried for some time, a woman... of that sort. T.R. Devlin: What sort is that, Mr. Beardsley? Mr. Beardsley: I don't think any of us have any illusions about her character, have we Devlin? Devlin: Not at all. Not in the slightest. Miss Huberman is first, last, and always not a lady. She may be risking her life, but when it comes to being a lady, she doesn't hold a candle to your wife, sir, sitting in Washington playing bridge with three other ladies of great honor and virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mary Kate Danaher: Don't touch me. You have no right. Sean Thornton: Whadya mean no right!... Mary Kate Danaher: I'll wear your ring, I'll cook and I'll wash. And I'll keep the land, but that is all. Until I've got my dowry safe about me, I'm no married woman. I'm the servant I have always been without anything of my own. Sean Thornton: That's ridiculous. You're my wife--and--what is this? Mary Kate Danaher: Haven't I been tryin' to tell you. That until you have my dowry, you haven't got any bit of me--me myself. I'll still be dreamin' amongst the things that are my own, as if I have never met you. There's 300 years of happy dreamin' in those things of mine, and I want them. I want my dream. I'll have it and I know. And I'll say no other word to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sean Thornton: I don't get this. Why do we have to have you along. Back in the states I'd drive up, honk the horn, a gal'd come ru...nnin' out. Mary Kate Danaher: Come a runnin'. I'm no woman to be honked at and come a runnin'.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]he minister preached a sermon on Jonah and the whale, at the end of which an old chief arose and declared, "We have heard sever...al of the white people talk and lie; we know they will lie, but this is the biggest lie we ever heard."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They all came, some wore sentiments Emblazoned on T-shirts, proclaiming the lateness... Of the hour, and indeed the sun slanted its rays Through branches of Norfolk Island pine as though Politely clearing its throat....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The ho...rse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »