- Drummond Hall: Why are you so angry with me?
- Lynn Markham: I'm not anything with you, and I'd prefer to keep it that way.
- Drummond Hall: I'd like to think we could be friends.
- Lynn Markham: Why?
- Drummond Hall: Well, for a starter, you...
- Lynn Markham: Look, why don't you stop pressing? Mrs. Crandall might have been interested in your product, but Mrs. Markham is not.
- Drummond Hall: You're taking an awful lot for granted, aren't you?
- Lynn Markham: Strange; I was thinking the same thing about you.
- Drummond Hall: Why? Just because I'm being friendly?
- Lynn Markham: You're about as friendly as a suction pump.
- Lynn Markham: [to Osbert and Queenie] I'd like to ask you to stay and have a drink, but I'm afraid you might accept.
- Osbert Sorenson: [to Queenie] I have an uneasy feeling that our honesty is being questioned.
- Queenie Sorenson: I think we're being asked to leave.
- Osbert Sorenson: So do I.
- [to Lynn]
- Osbert Sorenson: Would you like us to go?
- Lynn Markham: [Sarcastically] As far as you like. Another continent, preferably.
- Queenie Sorenson: Au revoir, then.
- Lynn Markham: [as they are leaving] Arrivederci.
- Amy Rawlinson: You couldn't love anybody. You hate women! All of us!
- Drummond Hall: I don't hate women. I just... hate the way they are.
- Lynn Markham: If you've saved your pennies, then you can put in a bid for him.
- Amy Rawlinson: I haven't got the price. Around here, love has a very low cash surrender value.
- Lynn Markham: If you don't let go of me, I'll call the police.
- Drummond Hall: That's right, be afraid of me. A little afraid, at least. A woman's no good to a man unless she's a little afraid of him.
- Lynn Markham: Now, why don't you take your hat in your hand, your sand in your shoes, and go and play in someone else's yard? I've had it, Galley!
- Drummond Hall: [Pointing out on picture on his boat] This is Mrs. Crandall - Eloise - taken when she still had ideas of marrying me.
- Lynn Markham: Would you have married her?
- Drummond Hall: She had money... could have given me what I wanted.
- Lynn Markham: What do you want?
- Drummond Hall: Nothing to worry about, nothing to struggle for, nothing to bother about.
- Lynn Markham: That kind of nothing costs money.
- Drummond Hall: So they tell me.
- Lynn Markham: You wanted to get it the easy way.
- Lynn Markham: What's that?
- Drummond Hall: Fuel pump. I need a new one.
- Lynn Markham: Why?
- Drummond Hall: [patronizing] Because this one doesn't work.
- Lynn Markham: [snide] Why don't you try a little charm on it?
- Lynn Markham: [Noticing a pipe in the ashtray] Mrs. Crandall was a quiet little old lady, you said?
- Amy Rawlinson: Oh yes, very.
- Lynn Markham: She must have left in a hurry.
- Amy Rawlinson: Why do you say that?
- Lynn Markham: The quiet little old lady forgot her pipe.