- Reverend Matthew Forte: Have you nothing more to say?
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Not if you've given God the last word. How can I answer that?
- Emily Warren Roebling: No one must know a woman was the engineer behind the bridge. They might not even want to walk across it.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: What about you, Bannister? Did you know Miss Ada is engaged to marry the Reverend Mr. Forte?
- Bannister: Oh. Congratulations, Miss Ada.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Do not congratulate her.
- Bannister: I'm sorry?
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Rescind your congratulations.
- Marian Brook: Aunt Agnes, this is silly.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Please do not tell me how to speak to my own butler!
- Bannister: My apologies, Miss Ada, but I must cancel my congratulations at Mrs. Van Rhijn's request.
- Ada Brook: I quite understand, Bannister.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: This marriage would be a disgrace. What would our parents think if I were to say nothing and let this happen?
- Marian Brook: So you try to please the dead by bullying the living?
- Bertha Russell: I feel like a racehorse approaching the starting gate.
- Church: And you'll be a winner, ma'am. Nothing can stop you now.
- Marian Brook: I thought you were spending the summer in Newport.
- Larry Russell: Unfortunately, my plans changed.
- Marian Brook: Unfortunately?
- Larry Russell: You don't want to hear it.
- Marian Brook: But I do.
- Larry Russell: It wasn't very original... lovers meet, lovers part, boo hoo.
- Richard Clay: Any concession now could only spell weakness. Weakness is the harbinger of chaos. One blink, and you'll lose the war.
- Richard Clay: And their demands keep getting louder... constant chants of, 'eight, eight, eight.'
- George Russell: What's that?
- Richard Clay: Eight hours of work, eight hours of sleep, and eight hours of 'what you will.'
- Marian Brook: And now we're even. Twin sufferers on the cruel carousel of life.
- Larry Russell: Let's be comrades in arms instead.
- Mamie Fish: Yes, where is that duke of yours?
- George Russell: I don't think we can claim him as our own.
- Mamie Fish: I would.
- Bertha Russell: How long do you plan to keep playing the fool?
- Larry Russell: I don't know. I suppose until it stops being fun.
- Bertha Russell: It's no fun for me, I assure you.
- Baudin: The Duke is English. I thought he'd like deviled kidneys.
- Bertha Russell: Possibly, but I doubt our American guests would.
- Marian Brook: Aunt Agnes is strong. She'll get used to it. She can punch nails through a wall with her bare hands and not notice.
- Ada Brook: She could certainly punch me through a wall. And it sounds like she intends to do just that.
- Reverend Matthew Forte: God's command is clear. 'Therefore man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: And they shall be one flesh.'
- George Russell: Would it be so terrible for them to have some time with their families?
- Richard Clay: Yes, it would be terrible because it would lead, first, to lower profits and, finally, to ruin, violence, bloodshed, and death.
- Duke of Buckingham: Do you spend a lot of time in Newport, Miss Russell?
- Gladys Russell: My mother seems to like it, so I suppose that's what will happen.
- Duke of Buckingham: Until you make your own life.
- Gladys Russell: Do any of us ever really make our own lives?
- Joshua Winterton: Well, it was a good dinner. You must admit that.
- Turner: I wouldn't admit it if they tore my fingernails off to make me.
- Mason Sturt: What are you looking at?
- T. Thomas Fortune: Nothing.
- Mason Sturt: You calling me 'nothing'?