- Tony Reilly: They say, if an Irishman dies while he's telling a story, you can rest assured, he'll be back.
- Chris Muldoon: Rosemary? What's the matter?
- Rosemary: I have no purpose. I'm just a girl. The world is full of girls.
- Tony Reilly: Anthony will never marry.
- Rosemary: Oh, he will.
- Tony Reilly: Wake up! Look to yourself.
- Rosemary: If it comes to that, I'll freeze my eggs!
- Tony Reilly: You'll what?
- Rosemary: I'll freeze my eggs. If he's slow, I'll wait.
- Tony Reilly: You should freeze your whole body if you're waiting for that one!
- Rosemary: I believe he will come to me.
- Anthony: Where's Rosemary?
- Aoife Muldoon: Outside.
- Anthony: In the rain?
- Aoife Muldoon: She won't smoke in front of me and she's always smokin', so I never see her.
- Tony Reilly: That's her. Stubborn.
- Anthony: She's out there, all right.
- Aoife Muldoon: She is. Smokin'.
- Anthony: She'll catch pneumonia.
- Aoife Muldoon: Nah, she's crazy. The cracked ones never get sick.
- Anthony: Crazy? I never noticed that.
- Aoife Muldoon: That's because you never notice anything, Anthony. You're famous across Ireland for what goes by ya.
- Tony Reilly: You're sure you don't want some ham?
- Aoife Muldoon: Cut a piece for the dog.
- Tony Reilly: No, it's too good for her.
- Aoife Muldoon: It's too good for either of you.
- Anthony: I hear a voice sometimes when I'm out here, and the voice says, "Go."
- Rosemary: Go? Do you not love the farm?
- Anthony: Love? Sure hate it for a prison. Came up out of it like a tree and here I am with it around me.
- Rosemary: Why don't you leave and follow the voice?
- Anthony: No.
- Rosemary: Why no?
- Anthony: There's these green fields... and the animals living off them. And over that there's us... living off the animals. And over that there's that which tends to us... and lives off us maybe. Whatever that is... it holds me here.
- Chris Muldoon: And you, Rosemary... for better or for worse, you are the white swan.
- Rosemary: What does it mean to be the white swan?
- Chris Muldoon: Well, it means no one can stop you. The world is yours. You can do anything.
- Tony Reilly: You're not a farmer, that's what you're not.
- Aoife Muldoon: Now, Tony.
- Tony Reilly: You don't stand on the land and draw strength from it. As I did. Till Mammy died. You'd rather read your goddamn magazines.
- Aoife Muldoon: Easy now.
- Anthony: Don't criticize me, Daddy. Some of us don't have joy, but we do what we must. Is a man who does what he must but feels no pleasure less of a man than one who's happy?
- Adam: I don't understand you people. You just seem to accept these crazy things, like that gate situation and...
- Rosemary: And what?
- Adam: Loneliness.
- Rosemary: Is that your car?
- Adam: I rented it.
- Rosemary: Why'd you bring such a fine car to a farm?
- Adam: For show.
- Rosemary: Yeah, I don't understand that.
- Adam: Right, but if you want to be happy, you have to be a little more realistic. I'm not so sure about love, but... marriage is a practical partnership. "Who's gonna take out the trash?" That kind of thing.
- Rosemary: Why would you try to give me away to your cousin?
- Anthony: It's a solid idea. He's a fine lad. He's rich.
- Rosemary: So what?
- Anthony: So what? Don't you want to be rich?
- Rosemary: No, I want a man!
- Anthony: Adam's a man.
- Rosemary: Adam smells like soap. He smells like the lilies of the field.
- Anthony: Why do you want to smell the cows on me when you can smell the lilies on him?
- Rosemary: I'm the one who should smell good. A man should stink. Like you!
- Anthony: Oh, well, thanks for that!
- Adam: Why do you make everything so hard?
- Maeve: Me?
- Adam: Well, not you specifically. The Irish. It's like they never can really seize the day, make a move.
- Maeve: Well, it's an island, you know? You gotta be careful. You don't want to call attention to yourself.
- Adam: Well, see, I like attention.
- Maeve: Of course you do. You're an American.
- Rosemary: If you turn your back on me I swear by Satan I'll blow a hole in ya.
- Anthony: Christ, Rosemary, if it's that bad, go back on the cigarettes.
- Rosemary: You'd put me back on the smokes, would ya? Bad cess to ya!
- Anthony: Hey, don't go cursing me.
- Rosemary: After what I've been through with the detoxification. Just sit down... you're upsetting Flossie.
- Rosemary: That bull of yours is coughing like pertussis.
- Anthony: I dosed him for worms. He's coughing them up.
- Rosemary: Doesn't sound good.
- Anthony: Don't say it.
- Rosemary: How long since you dosed him?
- Anthony: Three weeks.
- Rosemary: His lungs should've cleared.
- Anthony: I don't know. Should I call the vet?
- Rosemary: The morning's soon enough to spend money.
- Aoife Muldoon: Did your broach this with Chrissy?
- Tony Reilly: I did. No reply.
- Aoife Muldoon: No reply is a reply.
- Anthony: What do ya mean you don't know if the farm comes to me?
- Tony Reilly: I don't see a clear path.
- Anthony: From where to where?
- Tony Reilly: From me to you.
- Tony Reilly: You're more Kelly than Reilly. John Kelly thought he was a fish.
- Anthony: I'm a Reilly.
- Tony Reilly: Ya take after John Kelly, and that man was as mad as the full moon. He drowned himself in the Royal Canal.
- Anthony: He fell in.
- Tony Reilly: He had a rock tied around his neck.
- Anthony: You should see to your horse.
- Rosemary: She's alright
- Anthony: She's raisin' hell.
- Rosemary: There's nothing new there.
- Anthony: I can't stay.
- Rosemary: Are you serious? Look at yourself! Take off those boots.
- Anthony: You have every light burnin'.
- Rosemary: It's in your honor.
- Anthony: It's a fortune in electricity. I'm blind with it.
- Rosemary: [turns off a light] Is that better?