“- Heathcliff: My tears don't love you, Cathy. They blight and curse and damn you!
- Cathy: Heathcliff, don't break my heart.
- Heathcliff: Oh Cathy, I never broke your heart. You broke it!”
Laurence Olivier - Heathcliff
Merle Oberon - Cathy

“I'm going to break that marriage up! I can't stand it seeing Fred tied to a woman he doesn't love and who doesn't love him.”

Teresa Wright - Peggy Stephenson

“I've given you every chance to make something of yourself. I gave up my own job when you asked me. I gave up the best years of my life, and what have you done? You flopped!”

Virginia Mayo - Marie Derry

“He said he's sorry for what happened but it was just one of those things. He said it wouldn't be fair to his wife for us to see each other anymore because I'm obviously the kind of girl that takes these things too seriously. Then he said goodbye very politely and hung up.”

Teresa Wright - Peggy Stephenson

“- Al Stephenson: So you're gonna break this marriage up. Have you decided yet how you're gonna do it? Are you gonna do it with an axe?
- Peggy Stephenson: It's none of your business how I'm gonna do it. You've forgotten what it's like to be in love.”

Fredric March - Al Stephenson
Teresa Wright - Peggy Stephenson