- Rhoda Cooper: Why don't you face facts, Grandma?
- Lucy Cooper: [patting Rhoda's hand] Oh, Rhoda! When you're seventeen and the world's beautiful, facing facts is just as slick fun as dancing or going to parties, but when you're seventy... well, you don't care about dancing, you don't think about parties anymore, and about the only fun you have left is pretending that there ain't any facts to face, so would you mind if I just went on pretending?
- Lucy Cooper: A man and a maid stood hand in hand, bound by a tiny wedding band. Before them lay the uncertain years that promised joy and maybe tears. "Is she afraid?" thought the man of the maid. "Darling," he said in a tender voice, "Tell me. Do you regret your choice?" "We know not where the road may wind, or what strange byways we may find." "Are you afraid?" said the man to the maid. She raised her eyes and spoke at last. "My dear," she said, "the die is cast. The vows have been spoken. The rice has been thrown. Into the future we'll travel alone." 'With you," said the maid, "I'm not afraid."
- Barkley Cooper: Fifty years go by pretty fast.
- Mr. Horton, Hotel manager: Only when you're happy. How many children have you?
- Barkley Cooper: Five of them.
- Mr. Horton, Hotel manager: Really! I'll bet they've brought you a lot of pleasure!
- Barkley Cooper: [ironically] I bet you haven't any children.
- [last lines]
- Lucy Cooper: Bark, that's probably the prettiest speech you ever made. And in case I don't see you aga... well, for a little while. I just want to tell you, it's been lovely, every bit of it, the whole fifty years. I'd sooner have been your wife, Bark, than anyone else on Earth.
- Barkley Cooper: Thank you, Lucy.
- Barkley Cooper: You know, I sometimes think that children should never grow past the age when you have to tuck them into bed every night.
- Max Rubens: That's right. When they get older, and you can't give them as much as other children, they're ashamed of you, and when you give them everything and put them through college...
- Max Rubens: [folding his arms] They're ashamed of you.
- Barkley Cooper: Goodbye, Lucy dear. In case I don't see you again...
- Lucy Cooper: What?
- Barkley Cooper: Well, anything might happen, the train could jump off the track. If it should happen that I don't see you again... It's been very nice knowing you, Miss Breckenridge.
- Doctor: Say "ninety-nine."
- Barkley Cooper: What for? That can't cure a cold. I'd rather say "twenty-three" to you, but I guess you're too young to know that means "skiddoo."
- Lucy Cooper: Well, Bark, I figure that everyone is entitled to just so much happiness in life. Some get it in the beginning, and some in the middle, and others at the end. And then there are those that have it spread thin all through the years.