My Reputation

Jessica Drummond:
How neat you are, Frank!

Frank Everett:
That's what comes of being a bachelor all your life.

Ginna Abbott:
It isn't only the body that breaks down, Jess. The mind can go too, you know.

Mrs. Mary Kimball:
[to Jess] The world allows considerable liberty to wives it has never allowed to widows. I notice, for instance, you're no longer wearing black.

Mrs. Mary Kimball:
[to Jess] Our kind of people wear black.

Jessica Drummond:
You know, it's amazing how I can learn to like martinis. It's an acquired taste like anchovies.

Maj. Scott Landis:
Uh-huh.

Riette Van Orman:
Then why did you bother to come here at all?

Jessica Drummond:
Because I was still coward enough to want to save my reputation.

Riette Van Orman:
How quaint!

Jessica Drummond:
There are two sides to everything - even gossip.

Maj. Scott Landis:
Can we start all over again from the beginning?

Mrs. Mary Kimball:
No, we cannot. I can see that you're a thorough-going scalawag, young man!

Maj. Scott Landis:
I'm delighted to hear you say so, madam.

Mrs. Mary Kimball:
And kindly stop calling me madam!

[last lines]

Jessica Drummond:
[to Maj. Scott Landis] I'll never be lonely again.

Jessica Drummond:
[crying] I don't know what's the matter with me. I seem to be going to pieces!