Memorable quotes for
The War of the Roses (1989) More at IMDbPro »

Barbara Rose: Have you ever made angry love?
Gavin: Is there any other way?

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Oliver Rose: You weren't even multiorgasmic before you met me, were you?
Barbara Rose: You really expect me to keep on reassuring you sexually even now when we disgust each other?

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Oliver Rose: You have sunk below the deepest layer of prehistoric frog shit at the bottom of a New Jersey scum swamp.

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[Finding out that they are going to get a divorce]
Oliver Rose: And you better get yourself a damn good lawyer!
Barbara Rose: Best your money can buy!

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Gavin: Oliver, my father used to say that a man can never outdo a woman when it comes to love and revenge.

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[Oliver Rose pees on the fish Barbara Rose had prepared for the guests]
Barbara Rose: I would never humiliate you like this!
Oliver Rose: You're not equipped to, honey.

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[Oliver Rose lies in agony, after having his penis bitten severely by Barbara Rose]
Barbara Rose: Was it as good for you as it was for me?

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Gavin: There is no winning! Only degrees of losing!

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Barbara Rose: [after learning that Oliver is moving back into the home] This is the stupidest thing you've ever done!
Oliver Rose: Second stupidest.

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Oliver Rose: Barbara, Susan is here. She wants to know if you are all right.
Barbara Rose: Never felt better.
Oliver Rose: [opens the door for Susan] Thank you for dropping by, Susan.
Susan: Will you go outside with me, Mr.Rose?
Oliver Rose: Let's go.
[pauses]
Oliver Rose: Wait a minute, I forgot something.
Susan: What?
Oliver Rose: Barbara!
[shuts the door in front of her nose]

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Oliver Rose: [mistakenly almost hits Susan with the thrown chair] Oh, I'm sorry, Susan. I thought you are Barbara.

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Barbara Rose: Get out of the car, honey!
Oliver Rose: You're gonna have to kill me.
Barbara Rose: I mean it, Oliver.
Oliver Rose: You don't have *guts*! C'mon!

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Oliver Rose: [just got in the chandelier which pulled him of the balcony] I think I can swing this over to the balcony.
Barbara Rose: Stop it! Stop it! stop it!
Barbara Rose: I loosened the bolt, I was gonna drop it on you.
Oliver Rose: Oooh. That's a good one.

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Barbara Rose: Besides money...
[Barbara kicks off one of her heels and puts her foot in Gavin's crotch]
Barbara Rose: what would it take to get you to help me, Gavin?
Gavin: Come on, put your shoes on, Barbara. I haven't been into feet since '82.

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Gavin: My father used to say there are four things that tell the world who a man is: his house, his car, his wife and his shoes.

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Oliver Rose: What the hell is wrong with you?
Gavin: [cut to interior of Gavin's office] If you're with a woman for any length of time, eventually you'll ask her that question.

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Oliver Rose: I think you owe me a solid reason. I worked my ass off for you and the kids to have a nice life and you owe me a reason that makes sense. I want to hear it.
Barbara Rose: Because. When I watch you eat. When I see you asleep. When I look at you lately, I just want to smash your face in.

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Gavin: There are two dilemmas... that rattle the human skull. How do you hold onto someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

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