- Edith Cortright: I hadn't realized it was your birthday.
- Fran Dodsworth: No? I wish I hadn't. No woman enjoys getting to be 35.
- Edith Cortright: When you're my age, you'll look back on 35 as a most agreeable time of life, Mrs. Dodsworth.
- Fran Dodsworth: I hope I look as young as you do - when I'm your age.
- Edith Cortright: You're almost *sure* to, my dear.
- [last lines]
- Fran Dodsworth: Are you going back to that washed-out expatriate in Naples?
- Sam Dodsworth: Yes, and when I marry her, I'm going back to doing things.
- Fran Dodsworth: Do you think you'll ever get me out of your blood?
- Sam Dodsworth: Maybe not, but love has got to stop someplace short of suicide.
- [Dodsworth runs to the gangplank and jumps on just as it is lowered away from the ship. The boat whistle sounds]
- Steward: But the gentleman will miss the boat!
- Fran Dodsworth: [shouting above the boat whistle] HE'S GONE ASHORE! HE'S GONE ASHORE!
- Baroness Von Obersdorf: [to Fran] Have you thought how little happiness there can be for the... *old* wife... of a young husband?
- Sam Dodsworth: I want to sit under a Linden tree with nothing more important to worry about but the temperature of the beer. If there is anything more important.
- Fran Dodsworth: Remember, I, I did make a home for you once, and I'll do it again, only you've got to let me have my fling now! Because you're simply rushing at old age, Sam, and I'm not ready for that yet.
- Baroness Von Obersdorf: There is the question of children, too.
- Fran Dodsworth: Children?
- Baroness Von Obersdorf: Rich or poor, Kurt should have children to carry on his name. Can you give them to him?
- Fran Dodsworth: [a bit indignant] What makes you think I couldn't?
- Baroness Von Obersdorf: I am so much older than you are, my dear. You will forgive if I observe that you are older than Kurt.
- Sam Dodsworth: I've never been across before. I got excited. I took one look at that light and all the things I've ever read about England came to light. The town behind it with those flat-faced brick houses and a cart crawling up a hill between high hedges and Jane Austen and Oliver Twist and Sherlock Holmes. England. Mother England. Home.
- Edith Cortright: I used to be a British subject by marriage. I don't know that one can be a British subject by divorce. I expect I'm just a woman who lives in Italy.
- Sam Dodsworth: Oh, do people live in Italy?
- Edith Cortright: There are countless Italians.
- Sam Dodsworth: Oh, no, no, I mean, people like you.
- Edith Cortright: I live in Italy by the thousands, Mr. Dodsworth.
- Sam Dodsworth: Why?
- Edith Cortright: It's cheap!
- Tubby Pearson: [walking into the scene of a platonic goodbye kiss] Would you lay off those European liberties with my wife?
- Sam Dodsworth: You want to divorce me then?
- Fran Dodsworth: Why should I want to divorce you? You're my husband.
- Sam Dodsworth: You couldn't very well divorce me if I weren't.
- Sam Dodsworth: We'll have to learn to behave ourselves, when we'll be a couple of old grandparents in December.
- Edith Cortright: [to Sam] You've shrivelled. I've seen you shrivel the same way every letter you've got from her.
- Captain Lockert: If I might offer you one small word of advice, give up starting things you're not prepared to finish. It's quite evident they only lead you out of your depth.
- Edith Cortright: Break away from your hotel. Forget about Vienna. Move out here to me.
- Sam Dodsworth: Out to you?
- Edith Cortright: Yes. I can't make you as comfortable as your hotel does. When you want a bath, you'll have to choose between the tin tub and the Mediterranean. But, if you like swimming and fishing and a willing listener...
- Sam Dodsworth: That's very kind of you, Mrs. Cortright, and mighty friendly; but, I don't see how I could?
- Edith Cortright: Why not?
- Sam Dodsworth: What'd your neighbors think?
- Edith Cortright: Being Italians, they think a great deal.
- Sam Dodsworth: Exactly.
- Edith Cortright: Oh! But, that doesn't mean it would have to be so! Or, that I'd have it so even if you wanted it so.
- Fran Dodsworth: Oh, you're hopeless - you haven't the mistiest notion of civilization.
- Sam Dodsworth: Yeah, well maybe I don't think so much of it, though. Maybe clean hospitals, concrete highways, and no soldiers along the Canadian border come near my idea of civilization.
- Sam Dodsworth: I cabled her to come and she doesn't say one word about me going over.
- Matey Pearson: She's thoughtless.
- Sam Dodsworth: No she's not, Matey. She's scared.
- Matey Pearson: Fran's scared? What of?
- Sam Dodsworth: Of growing old.
- Matey Pearson: That's very smart of you, Sam.
- Sam Dodsworth: Setting up that motor's the first real fun I've had since I quit business, and it's got me raring to go all over again for the first time.
- Edith Cortright: To go?
- Sam Dodsworth: You bet!
- Edith Cortright: Away from here?
- Sam Dodsworth: Any place where I can get back in harness. Get in on something new, the way they did with automobiles when they began 30 years ago. Thought I might try my hand at aviation. The idea of a Moscow to Seattle airline kinda' strikes me.
- Edith Cortright: [slightly incredulous] Moscow to Seattle?
- Sam Dodsworth: Yeah, buy in on a transcontinental connection. Then, with these transcontinental flights coming on so well, say, I might be the first man with his first round-the-world system. The Soviet people seem agreeable.
- Fran Dodsworth: Look at those two women. Can't you just see them in Venice with their Baedekers? Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
- Captain Lockert: Why is it Americans are always such snobs?
- Fran Dodsworth: They all belong to the smartest crowd in Paris.
- Sam Dodsworth: Fran, do you think the real thing in Paris would hang out with a couple of hicks like us? All right, now, what else are we? I'm just an ordinary American businessman and I married the daughter of a Zenith brewer.
- Sam Dodsworth: Why won't you sit at a cafe with me?
- Fran Dodsworth: Smart people don't.
- Sam Dodsworth: I'm not smart.
- Fran Dodsworth: I am.
- Sam Dodsworth: You ought to be smart enough not to care what people think.
- Arnold Iselin: Let me remind you that Shakespeare's Othello ends badly for the hero.
- Sam Dodsworth: I'm not Othello. This is not the Middle Ages. None of us speak blank verse, not even you.
- Fran Dodsworth: Oh, Sam, I'm just a woolly American like you after all, and if you ever catch me trying to be anything else, will you beat me?
- Sam Dodsworth: Well, will I have to beat you very long at a time?
- Fran Dodsworth: [to Sam, as he's gotten on board the train] Do try not to be too dreadfully lonely, will you?
- Sam Dodsworth: Did I remember to tell you today that I adore you?
- [train departs]
- Fran Dodsworth: Oh, Sammy, darling, I want all the lovely things I have a right to. In Europe, a woman of my age is just getting to the point where men begin to take a serious interest in. I won't be put on the shelf for my daughter when I can still dance longer and better than she can. After all, I've got brains and thank heaven I still got looks. Nobody takes me for over 32, 30 even. Of, Sammy, darling, I'm begging for life. No I'm not, I'm demanding it.
- Sam Dodsworth: I see how you feel. All right, I'll enjoy life now if it kills me and it probably will.
- Sam Dodsworth: Do you realize this is the first time we've ever really started out together as lovers?
- Edith Cortright: Drifting isn't nearly so pleasant as it looks.
- Sam Dodsworth: If you don't like it, why don't you give it up?
- Edith Cortright: One drifts for lack of a reason to do anything else.
- Sam Dodsworth: Well, what do you want?
- Edith Cortright: What do you suppose any Ione woman wants?
- Fran Dodsworth: You like that woman, don't you?
- Sam Dodsworth: You thought she was the most distinguished-Iooking woman on the boat.
- Fran Dodsworth: Seems a frump in Paris.
- Kurt Von Obersdorf: I brought you a box of real Havana cigars.
- Sam Dodsworth: Very kind of you, Kurt.
- Kurt Von Obersdorf: Smuggled through without duty. Tonight I take you to a *very* gay restaurant with very good food.
- Edith Cortright: You're busy...
- Sam Dodsworth: I've got nothing to do but look at ruined temples. They'll keep. They've kept this long.
- Fran Dodsworth: I suppose I ought to beg you to forgive me. But, you always let bygones be bygones and this is such a happy ending to our escapades.
- Edith Cortright: Let's sit down, if you've got a moment.
- Sam Dodsworth: Time is something I have nothing else but.
- Matey Pearson: Who's Arnold Iselin?
- Sam Dodsworth: He's one of those custom-built internationals you see in the rotogravure section every Sunday.
- Sam Dodsworth: I'm sorry, Fran, I hate undercover work myself, but I wouldn't have gotten where I have in this world if it hadn't been in me to be a bit ruthless on occasion.
- Fran Dodsworth: Just think, Sammy, you're free! After 20 years of doing what was expected of us, we're free.
- Sam Dodsworth: I'm just as keen on this trip as you are. I'm rarin' to go. I've always wanted to see London and Paris.
- Fran Dodsworth: I want much more than a trip out of this, Sam. I want a new life, all over from the very beginning. A perfectly glorious, free, adventurous life. It's coming to us. We've done our job.
- Sam Dodsworth: You flew? I don't want you flying around in airplanes. I'm not taking any chances on you.
- Renée de Penable: What brings you back from Dublin so soon? I hope it wasn't business.
- Arnold Iselin: No, nothing so vulgar as business.
- Edith Cortright: We were just hopping off - where?
- Sam Dodsworth: Siberia. Pick out landing fields. No ramifications. A line from Irkutsk to Tashkent and Samarkand. Swell name, Samarkand. Say, if those Soviet boys will let me...