“I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.”
Christopher Hampton

“- Hildy Johnson: You are no longer my husband and no longer my boss. And you're not going to be my boss.
- Walter Burns: All right, take it. Work for somebody else. That's the gratitude I get.”
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“I admit I wasn't much of a husband, but you can always count on me, Hildy.”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed.”

Lou Costello - Costello

“- Seth Lord: What most wives fail to realize is that their husband's philandering has nothing whatever to do with them.
- Tracy Lord: Then what has it to do with?
- Seth Lord: A reluctance to go grow old.”
John Halliday - Seth Lord
Katharine Hepburn - Tracy Lord