- Lizzie: Been wanting a good excuse to give a party ever since the Jersey cow started giving such good whipping cream!
- Lizzie: [arriving at the barn dance in a flustery huff after a bone-jarring ride over bumpy roads with Cephus in his tin lizzie] You folks is awful lucky that you still travel by horse-and-buggy! I hain't NEVER had such a ride in my life! Stone walls don't mean a THING to Cephus - - you ride with HIM and you go four miles forward and TEN miles UP AND DOWN!
- Mrs. Hooper: I guess I don't quite understand.
- Seth Parker: That's just the trouble, Mrs. Hooper. There's too many folks in the world being hurt by other folks just because other folks *don't* understand.
- Rufe Turner: Why don't you get a paintbrush with all the bristles in it, instead of just half? You'd be able to do TWICE as much paintin'!
- Cephus: Ah hain't GOT twice as much paintin' to DO!