The Night of the Iguana

T. Lawrence Shannon:
Miss Fellowes is a highly moral person. If she ever recognized the truth about herself it would destroy her.

T. Lawrence Shannon:
Nothing could be worse for a girl in your unstable condition, to be mixed up with a man in, in my unstable condition because two people in unstable conditons are like two countries facing each other in unstable conditons. The, eh, destructive potential, eh, could blow the whole world to bits!

Hannah Jelkes:
Nothing human disgusts me, Mr. Shannon, unless it's unkind, violent.

Hannah Jelkes:
There are worse things than chastity, Mr. Shannon.

Lawrence Shannon:
Yes: lunacy and death.

T. Lawrence Shannon:
The Fantastic Level and the Realistic Level are the two levels upon which we live.

T. Lawrence Shannon:
I thought you were sexless. But you've just become a woman. And do you know how I know that? Because *you* like *me* tied up! All women, whether they wish to admit it or not, would like to get men into a tied-up situation.

T. Lawrence Shannon:
I'm panicking!

Hannah Jelkes:
I know that.

T. Lawrence Shannon:
A man can die of panic!

Hannah Jelkes:
Not when he enjoys it as much as you do, Dr. Shannon.

Hannah Jelkes:
Who wouldn't like to atone for the sins of themselves, and the world, if it could be done in a hammock with ropes, instead of on a Cross, with nails? On a green hilltop, instead of Golgotha, the Place of the Skulls? Isn't that a comparatively comfortable, almost voluptuous Crucifixion to suffer for the sins of the world, Mr. Shannon?

Judith Fellowes:
[t Charlotte Goodall] Dreadful girl. You defied me. You *deliberately* defied me. [slaps Charlotte across the face; Charlotte exits]

T. Lawrence Shannon:
What did you think we were doing out there, Miss Fellowes? Spawning?

Judith Fellowes:
Oh, you beast. You beast! [sobbing] You beast!

Hannah Jelkes:
Oh God, please can't we stop now?

Hannah Jelkes:
I can't stand for a person I respect to behave like a small, cruel boy.

T. Lawrence Shannon:
And what do you respect in me, miss thin, standing-up, female Buddha?

Maxine Faulk:
So you appropriated the young chick and the old hens are squawking, huh?

T. Lawrence Shannon:
It's very serious. The child is emotionally precocious.

Maxine Faulk:
Bully for her.

T. Lawrence Shannon:
Also, she is traveling under the wing of a military escort of a butch vocal teacher.

T. Lawrence Shannon:
[talking to Maxine] I wonder how long it takes to sweat the faculty of a Baptist Female College out of a bus that's parked in the sun when it's a 100 degrees in the shade.

T. Lawrence Shannon:
[as the disatisfied Ms. Fellowes runs to speak to Shannon] Look at her, charging like a bull elephant on a rampage.

Judith Fellowes:
[Yelling at Shannon] You thought you outwitted me, didn't you, having your paramour here cancel my call.

Maxine Faulk:
Miss Fellowes, honey, if paramour means what I think it does you're gambling with your front teeth.

Maxine Faulk:
What's this mess supposed to be?

Chang:
Soup.

Maxine Faulk:
Well, it's burnt!

Maxine Faulk:
[walks over to Chang, who is smoking marijuana] Chang... I've warned you before.

Maxine Faulk:
I don't allow this stuff on the premises, even if you're on vacation.

Maxine Faulk:
You remember the time you got it in the enchiladas?

Maxine Faulk:
What... uh... subject do you teach back in that college of yours hunny?

Judith Fellowes:
Voice... if that's got anything to do with it.

Maxine Faulk:
Well geography is my specialty. Did you know that if it wasn't for the dikes, the plains of Texas would be engulfed by the gulf?

Maxine Faulk:
What the hell are you doing, Shannon?

T. Lawrence Shannon:
I just cut loose one of God's creatures at the end of his rope.

Maxine Faulk:
What for?

T. Lawrence Shannon:
So that one of God's creatures could be free from panic, and scamper home safe and free. A little act of grace, Maxine.

Barkeeper:
[to Charlotte Goodall] We do not want our sons to know that young girls can be like you!

Maxine Faulk:
Hey! Now just a flippin' minute!

Maxine Faulk:
[to Miss Fellowes] Well, if you're not going to eat him, I'd better go see about food for dinner.

Lawrence Shannon:
[to Charlotte] You're as dangerous as you are young and lovely.

Lawrence Shannon:
I want to explain something to you... A man has got just so much in his emotional bank balance. Mine has run out. It's stone dry. I can't draw a check on it. There's nothing left to draw out.

Hannah Jelkes:
Some people take a drink. Some people take a pill. I just take a few deep breaths.

Maxine Faulk:
Well she's done a pretty good job of destroying you!

T. Lawrence Shannon:
Maxine, don't rob me of the credit for my own small accomplishments.

Lawrence Shannon:
Shannon has been collecting evidence... man's inhumanity to God.

T. Lawrence Shannon:
What has that got to do with the price of rice in China? What has that got to do with the price of coffee in Brazil?

T. Lawrence Shannon:
There's no need for the shawl. God has played God, and set him free.

Maxine Faulk:
Even I know the difference between lovin' somebody, and just goin' to bed with them. Even I know that.

Maxine Faulk:
The trouble is Shannon - I caught the vibrations between you two.

Hannah Jelkes:
Mrs. Faulk, I'm a New England spinster who is pushing forty.

Maxine Faulk:
Well who the hell isn't?