“- Mary Todd Lincoln: Stephen Douglas has arrived. Listen to them cheering for him!
- Abe Lincoln: They ought to cheer. He paid them enough for it.”

Ruth Gordon - Mary Todd Lincoln
Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln

“- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: Sometimes I think I'd prefer a rival of flesh-and-blood.
- Kane: Oh Emily, I don't spend that much time on the newspaper.
- Emily Monroe Norton Kane: It isn't just the time. It's what you print - attacking the President.”
Ruth Warrick - Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Orson Welles - Kane

“We will not deal with the question of pay as that is altogether too painful. But what we will deal with is the most important disillusionment of all, and that is that wherever she goes there is always in her life a permanently undefeated rival: her husband's ship.”

Celia Johnson - Mrs. Alix Kinross

“Ladies and gentlemen I give you my rival. It is extraordinary that anyone could be so fond and so proud of their most implacable enemy - this ship. God bless this ship and all who sail in her.”

Celia Johnson - Mrs. Alix Kinross

“A very clear motive. One of the oldest motives in criminal history. Jealousy. Why, you may find it preposterous to believe that a man of his years and timid character could become so enamored with a young woman as to commit an act of violence to dispose of a handsome and vigorous rival.”

George Coulouris - Prosecutor