- Caroline 'Carrie' Bishop: Really, Chris, lying is part of every woman's job. Sometimes it's her only defense.
- Gallagher: [walking away] An actress! 'Tis married, you should be. And having children - heaven help 'em.
- Caroline 'Carrie' Bishop: Gallagher, who is it?
- Christine 'Chris' Bishop: Gallagher doesn't know anything about anything do you, Gallagher?
- Gallagher: Oh, I don't, don't I?
- Christine 'Chris' Bishop: No, you don't.
- Gallagher: If it's lying you want done, you'll have to be hiring another to do it.
- Caroline 'Carrie' Bishop: Bravo? Give out, Gallagher. Who is it?
- Gallagher: One Stephen J. Forbes, esquire.
- Caroline 'Carrie' Bishop: Where's mother?
- Gallagher: In bed!.
- Caroline 'Carrie' Bishop: In bed? But it's eleven thir... she's ill?
- Gallagher: Nothing of the kind. But what else can you expect when she's out lollygagging 'til three in the morning, night after night?
- Caroline 'Carrie' Bishop: Ohhh! It's perfect. Don't you just love it?
- Cab Driver: Love what, lady?
- Caroline 'Carrie' Bishop: The house.
- Cab Driver: Yeah. Quite a trap, all right. Poisonally
- [sic]
- Cab Driver: , I prefer my arch-i-tex-shur Spanish.
- Caroline 'Carrie' Bishop: Three in the morning? It's not true.
- Gallagher: Not true? And since when did Molly Gallagher ever be able to give the word but that God's truth come from it? I live by the truth and I'll die by it. And I'm telling you there's more going on here than your eyes can see. A whole lot more. And just hoping, I am, that you're not too late.
- Jimmy Blake: You've never had any roller skates before, huh?
- Caroline 'Carrie' Bishop: No, my mommy won't let me have 'em. She says that children's feet should be seen and not heard.