- Lulu Bains: Oh, he gave me special instructions back of the pulpit Christmas Eve. He got to howlin' "Repent! Repent!" and I got to moanin' "Save me! Save me!" and the first thing I know he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps!
- Clean-up man: Mister, I've been converted five times. Billy Sunday, Reverend Biederwolf, Gypsy Smith, and twice by Sister Falconer. I get terrible drunk, and then I get good and saved. Both of them done me a powerful lot of good - gettin' drunk and gettin' saved. Well, good night.
- Jim Lefferts: You look like a man who could use a drink.
- Elmer Gantry: You know somethin', Jim? There oughta be a law against drinkin'.
- Jim Lefferts: There is. Prohibition.
- Elmer Gantry: That's against sellin', not drinkin'.
- Jim Lefferts: Amen.
- Elmer Gantry: I have here in my pocket - and thank heaven you can't see them - lewd, dirty, obscene, and I'm ashamed to say this: French postcards. They were sold to me in front of your own innocent high school by a man with a black beard... a foreigner.
- Elmer Gantry: I was accosted by three painted women. Your streets are made unsafe by shameless, diseased hussies, rapacious pick-pockets, and insidious opium-smokers.
- George Babbitt: Besides, I'm for a free press, for free enterprise... and for whatever the hell the other freedoms are!
- Sister Sharon Falconer: Are you too proud to kneel, Mr. Lefferts? You may not believe in God, but God believes in you.
- Elmer Gantry: I did run out on you back there in Kansas, didn't I?
- Lulu Bains: It's nobody's fault. Except maybe my old man's.
- Elmer Gantry: Ever hear from him?
- Lulu Bains: Once, last Christmas. The letter said "Daughter, read 1st Kings, Chapter 21 Verse 23." I looked it up. It said "And the dogs in the street shall eat Jezebel." My old man and his Bible.