- Mary Lamont: Look, honey, you're only six years old and that's too young to get married.
- Anna Mae: The hillbillies do! Why can't I be a hillbilly?
- Dr. Leonard Gillespie: A man can only destroy his own life. A woman can destroy the God-given generation that might make her life complete.
- Dr. Leonard Gillespie: I wish you were coming with me, Conover.
- Conover: I do, too, but my wife is the most unreasonable woman I ever was married to.
- Dr. Leonard Gillespie: Doesn't she got any confidence in you?
- Conover: Yes sir, she's got plenty of confidence. The trouble is, she doesn't trust me.
- Dr. Leonard Gillespie: Symphony concert. Violin players. Sixty men pulling the tail of a horse across the intestines of a cat!