“I'm a widower. That's like catnip to a cat, in a town where the ladies outnumber you ten to one.”
James Garner - Murphy Jones

- Interpreter: Sir is married?
- Anna Leonowens: A widow. Can you please explain to me why you call me "Sir"?
- Interpreter: Women do not stand in the presence of His Excellency.

Afdlin Shauki - Interpreter
Jodie Foster - Anna

“- Jerome Lurie: Your claim is worthless without your husband alive. See for yourself... second paragraph. Now, ma'am, I'm sorry but it's the law. Surely you understand that.
- Anita Crown: Yes, I understand that. I was worthless until I married. So now, I guess I'm worthless as a widow. Funny, I had some value as a whore.”
Mark Carlton - Lawyer Lurie
Mary Stuart Masterson - Anita Crown

“Feminine weaknesses and fainting spells are the direct result of our confining young girls to the house, bent over their needlework, and restrictive corsets.”
Susan Sarandon - Mrs. March

“- Henry Lowndes: If you call her a widow, that proves that even you thought you were dead.
- Bill Cardew: I'll show you how dead I am.”

Melvyn Douglas - Henry Lowndes
Fred MacMurray - Bill Cardew