- Emma Jones: Aw, men are all alike. They're all easy enough to get along with so long as everything goes the way they want it to, but once it don't, good night.
- Mrs. Anna Maurrant: I think the trouble is that people don't want to make allowances. They don't seem to realize that everybody wants a kind word now and... then.
- Mrs. Anna Maurrant: I often think it's a shame that people don't seem able to live together in peace and quiet without making each other miserable.
- Emma Jones: Well, what I say is, you get married for better or for worse. And if it turns out for the worse, well, all you can do is make the best of it.
- Emma Jones: I know all about that stuff, teachin' kids there ain't no God, and their grandfathers was monkeys!
- Emma Jones: Between you and I, I don't think her mother's long for this world.
- Mrs. Anna Maurrant: Poor Miss Cushing. She's just spent her whole life looking after her mother.
- Emma Jones: Well, I hope to tell ya', after all I've done for my kids, I expect 'em to look after me in my old age.
- Mrs. Anna Maurrant: Oh, I don't know. It seems to me a person ought to get more out of life than just looking after somebody else.
- Mr. Frank Maurrant: We don't want no foreigners comin' in, tellin' us how to run things.
- Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino: Nothing wrong to be a foreigner - very good people are foreigners!
- Mr. Frank Maurrant: Some baby of a day.
- Mrs. Anna Maurrant: Everything's well at work, Frank?
- Mr. Frank Maurrant: I'll say I've been working. Dress rehearsin' since 12:00 with lights in this weather. Tomorrow I gotta go to Stanford for the trial.
- Mrs. Anna Maurrant: Oh, you're going to Stanford tomorrow?
- Mr. Frank Maurrant: Sure, the whole crew's goin'. Why, what about it?
- Mrs. Anna Maurrant: Nothing.
- Abe Kaplan: How can we call ourselves "civilized" when we see that sex jealousy has the power to awaken in us the primitive passions of the savage?