“- Newsman: We were only saying a swell reporter like you wouldn't quit so easy...
- Hildy Johnson: I can quit all right without a single quiver. I'm gonna live like a human being. Not like you chumps.”
Frank McLure - Newsman
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“When she passes, how much passes with her! A whole way of life, a way of gentleness and honor and dignity. These things are going, Henry, and they may never come back to this world.”

Harry Davenport - Colonel Skeffington

“- Lilly Raines: I'd say that was safeguarding his dignity.
- Frank Horrigan: That was different. He was different.
- Lilly Raines: Maybe you were different.
- Frank Horrigan: I was different. The whole damn country was different. Everything would be different right now too if I'd been half as a paranoid as I am today.”

Rene Russo - Lilly Raines
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“I got my dignity, my pride.”
Jay Hernandez - Carlito Brigante

“My dignity isn't for sale Nick Naylor. It's not an offer, it's a gift the taxes have all been paid you get to keep it no matter what you do, the idea is your guilt will prevent you from bad mouthing us.”

Sam Elliott - Lorne Lutch