- Mary Maloney: Gazing around the dark, gloomy entryway of the house. "Look at this hallway, frighten Dracula."
- Barrie Trexel: If Susan's lying in a ditch, you can be sure it's a perfectly good ditch, with hot and cold running water.
- Susan Trexel: I'll tell him I don't approve of it in the daytime. All night's long enough for anything on earth.
- Susan Trexel: Where did you get that hideous thing you're wearing?
- Blossom Trexel: They got it for me.
- Susan Trexel: They?
- Blossom Trexel: The school did.
- Susan Trexel: Oh, really, Barry. After all the money we pay that school to then neglect her appearance like this. You look all wool and a yard wide.
- Blossom Trexel: Mother, you're funny! And you look so divine.
- Susan Trexel: Well, why not? I work like a trojan at it.
- Cabbie: Where to mister?
- Barrie Trexel: The Club!
- Cabbie: Lambs, Friars, Lotos, Explorers, Union League, Rosie's Rendezvous?
- Barrie Trexel: The Hunt.
- Cabbie: The Hunt. Right you are, sir.
- Susan Trexel: Oh, I've forgotten. Take that away. That's out.
- Michael O'Hara: Don't tell me you're on the wagon, Susan.
- Susan Trexel: No, not at all. It's something much more spiritual than a wagon.
- Susan Trexel: You realize what you're doing? What you're promising?
- Barrie Trexel: I'm promising to give you up for ever, if I slip.
- Susan Trexel: Even if it's only...
- Barrie Trexel: Even if I only last a day, or an hour. You win. I lose.
- Barrie Trexel: I thought you liked the camp? Better than anything?
- Blossom Trexel: What made you think that?
- Barrie Trexel: Well, I've been told it's a nice, healthy place.
- Blossom Trexel: If I get any more healthy, I'll die! I hate the camp, I hate it!
- Susan Trexel: [Last lines] Barrie, wait. Please let me try again. I want to be so much more to you than I've ever been before. I know now, dearest. If only I'd done myself what I was asking everybody else to do. God couldn't help me, not one little bit, because I wouldn't dig and dig to get the rottenness out of me. Barrie... Hold me. Oh, dear God, don't let me fall down again.
- Michael O'Hara: Next!
- Susan Trexel: Mike!
- Michael O'Hara: Right in the mouth and nothing wiped off.
- [kiss]
- Charlotte: Susan, if there's one thing I thought you'd never be guilty of is a movement.
- Susan Trexel: I know! I know! That's what's so marvelous about it.
- Susan Trexel: The most marvelous thing about this is, you can keep right on being whatever you are: an Episcopalian, Ethiopian, Colored. Anything! It's just love, love, love! For other people - not for yourself.
- Susan Trexel: You poor, miserable unhappy things. Civilization's a failure! It's a poor, sick, sick, unhappy world.
- Irene: Yes, dear.
- Susan Trexel: Oh, what's the use of all this marvelous, mechanical invention if it doesn't make the human race happy?
- Irene: Yes.
- Susan Trexel: Everybody batting around, trying to find something to fill up this awful emptiness. It's the only thing in the world to stop war. Oh, Irene, I brought you the most ravishing panties!
- Blossom Trexel: You're all right, Dad. Why can't you be like this all the time?
- Barrie Trexel: Seems simple enough, doesn't it? Somehow what we mean to be and what we are - are quite different.
- Michael O'Hara: [watching Leonora dance] Boy, oh boy, what a rhumba. I don't know why I wasn't born a Spaniard.
- Michael O'Hara: O-o, you better watch your step, Lee, if someday Daddy spanks.
- [spanks Leonora's behind]
- Leonora: Don't be silly!
- Leonora: [reciting lines from a script] Listen to that tune that's coming up from the riverboat. Does it remind you of anything?
- Clyde: Why bother with those old nigger memories. darling. The important thing is that you are are here with me at last.
- Leonora: And we know we belong together.
- [stops reciting from the script]
- Leonora: Oh, Clyde. I'm so bored. So bored! So bored.
- Charlotte: Susan, you've got an awful nerve butting into that.
- Susan Trexel: Nerve? Oh, it's divine guidance, darling. That's what it takes to help people, especially your friends.
- Charlotte: It sometimes takes divine guidance to keep your mouth shut, too.
- Irene: Now, Susan, we all know you've had a grand time and we've listened, because, its you. But, for heaven's sake, don't try to Lady Wigstaff us any more!
- Susan Trexel: Why shouldn't you and I talk about God and goodness, as well as, clothes or food or anything else?
- Susan Trexel: Ask God to help you. He knows what your temptation was. Telling us is only to break down your pride, make you humble and bring you nearer to him. No matter what we are, or what we do, if we're sorry, really, really and honestly want his help, we can be made over.
- Barrie Trexel: Where are the things that you thought were me and the things I thought were you? Where have they gone? Can't we get 'em back?
- Susan Trexel: Things don't come back, Barrie. Nobody stands still. We go up or we go down.
- Barrie Trexel: You're the up and I'm the down.
- Susan Trexel: Darling, while we're going through it, we're friends - good, good friends - and nothing more.
- Leonora: Clyde and I have worked together in the theater for years. Now, Susan, in one idiotic evening, breaks up our whole friendship. Oh, why did that rattlebrain ever have to hear about God!
- Blossom Trexel: Mother, you're funny. And you look so divine.
- Susan Trexel: Well, why not? I work like a Trojan at it.
- Susan Trexel: Well, if we're going to have this happy Summer together, the sooner we get at it, the better.
- Barrie Trexel: There's not going to be that smash that you predicted. And those little birdies that you spoke about so feelingly, are gonna go right on singing their song, while I wet my whistle on cambric tea.
- Susan Trexel: Oh, Barrie, you know very well that I want you to stop your drinking.
- Barrie Trexel: I know very well that you've been counting on old John Barleycorn to get you out of your bargain. But, he's not going to do it!
- Susan Trexel: We don't even speak the same language anymore. I - I've changed.
- Barrie Trexel: Yes, by heaven, you have - from being the adorable little scatterbrain I married, you've turned into a very bad sport.
- Barrie Trexel: You know, the trouble with you, Charlotte, you've got no "come on." You're too honest. I guess men like to be fooled a little.
- Charlotte: I guess I'd have to fool them a lot.
- Barrie Trexel: Good ole, Char.
- Slim: [singing] Oh, I've got a wise old horsey, At times I've heard him say, The trouble with the world, Is the folks that live in it, They've all learned to get, And never learned to give in it, You'll never build a world, A decent sort of world, You'll never build a world that way...
- Susan Trexel: You know, you have to make the best of what you've got. If you're not going to be pretty, then, the least we can do, is make you interesting. It really gets a woman further in the long run.
- Barrie Trexel: If you want a real beauty in - this lipstick is known as: Fireman's Underwear Red. Guaranteed not to come off, even on a fireman.
- Susan Trexel: You're so smart. How do you know so much?
- Barrie Trexel: Yeah, that's right. How would I know?
- Susan Trexel: Life has come straight back at me. All the things I've been running away from, are the only things I ever really wanted.