“- Josie Marcus: It wouldn't be right for me to marry you anyways.
- Sheriff Johnny Behan: Why not?
- Josie Marcus: Well, it's not that I don't love you, I don't even like you.”
Joanna Going - Josie Marcus
Mark Harmon - Sheriff Johnny Behan

“Well, there's nothing else I can say except that I'm glad that before I married you, you showed yourself in your true colors: you're just a butterfly.”

Virginia Walker - Alice Swallow

“- 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

“- Dr. Frank Bryant: We split up, Rita, because of poetry.
- Rita: You what?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant
Julie Walters - Rita

“- Rita: Are you a poet?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.
- Rita: What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: No. I stopped writing altogether.”
Julie Walters - Rita
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant