"My father used to say, 'Wishes are the dreams we dream when we're awake.' He used to drink a lot." --as Terry McKay in LOVE AFFAIR (1939).
"My father used to say, 'It's a funny thing, but the things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.'" --as Terry McKay in LOVE AFFAIR (1939).
"A lot of people criticize a lot of other people for doing a lot of things a lot of other people do which aren't nearly as bad as the things a lot of people are doing themselves. Isn't that right?" --as Dorinda Durston in A GUY NAMED JOE (1943).
"Pete, did I ever give you the wrong impression? ... Don't watch me blush, but I tried to once or twice." --as Dorinda Durston in A GUY NAMED JOE (1943).
"A life is really a very, very long time, Margaret, when you look back to when you were young." --as Susan Dunn Ashwood in THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER (1944).
"God will never forgive us if we break faith with our dead again." --as Susan Dunn Ashwood in THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER (1944).
"Dames are funny -- holding on to what they've got just as long as they can." --as Paula Wharton in OVER 21 (1945).
"Flunking out after giving the best you have -- there's some self-respect in that. But quitting in the middle -- that's a licking." --as Paula Wharton in OVER 21 (1945).