- [Cherry apologizes for almost injuring Mrs. Medford]
- Cherry Chester: If I ever did, I'd blow my brains out!
- Mrs. Boyce Medford: I know. And then I'd have to tidy up afterward.
- Mrs. Boyce Medford: Go and put on something that'll make you look sweet and...
- Cherry Chester: Oh, but I wanna be mysterious. I wanna be alone.
- Mrs. Boyce Medford: Well, don't try that -- you're not Swedish.
- Mrs. Boyce Medford: Do you mind explaining to me what this is all about? You'll find I understand English like a native.
- Anthony Amberton: [after jumping into Cherry's carriage to escape a horde of female autograph hounds] Don't you really know who I am?
- Cherry Chester: No. Just because you know who I am doesn't mean that I know who you are.
- Anthony Amberton: Well, I haven't any idea who you are.
- Cherry Chester: You mean you've never seen me before?
- Anthony Amberton: No. As a matter of fact, I'm sorry I haven't. You're rather attractive in an elementary sort of way.
- Cherry Chester: Can't you manage to be a little less personal?
- Anthony Amberton: I loathe women like that. Give me a simple, primitive woman with a small, high chest.
- Ogden Holbrook: Well, I'm only your publisher, but I'll see what I can do.
- Anthony Amberton: [Tipping the talkative train porter] We'll swap travelogues in the morning. In the meantime I don't wanna see a single soul. Have my dinner in here.
- Cherry Chester: [Reading the promos on his book] Mr. Amberton has conquered the highest peaks known to travelers. Oh, blah! Bilge, absolute bilge!
- Anthony Amberton: Give me the simple, primitive woman with a small, high chest! A woman of long silences, consuming in love, enduring in marriage.
- Book Buyer: [At Anthony Amberton's book signing] Do write something personal. My husband is so jealous.
- Mrs. Boyce Medford: Now, go and get dressed, and stop acting like an actress.
- Cherry Chester: I am an actress. First, an actress; then, a woman. My art comes before anything else.
- Anthony Amberton: How do you like New York?
- Cherry Chester: I loathe it. I loathe all cities.
- Anthony Amberton: Fine. That's two of us.
- Cherry Chester: [Looking through Boyce's book] Anthony Amberton - sounds like a hero in a costume picture. Great adventurer? Probably afraid to cross the street. Lots of hardships - I'll bet he's lost without his hot water bottle. Ah, Mr. Amberton and his camel. Oh, I see - he's the one with the hat on.
- Cherry Chester: [Grabbing the book that Boyce is reading and looking at the title and author, "Astride the Himalaya," by Anthony Amberton] You too, Brutus!
- Cherry Chester: But I don't want to be interviewed. I told you before - I won't be interviewed
- [Going into a tantrum]
- Cherry Chester: I won't! I won't! I won't!
- Mrs. Boyce Medford: My absolute angel?
- Anthony Amberton: It's the musk in that perfume I can't stand. Once I was marooned in a plague-ridden African village. Ever since then, the smell of musk knocks me cold.
- Train stenographer: We've got another celebrity on board, Mr. Amberton - Cherry Chester.
- Anthony Amberton: Cherry Chester? Nobody's named Cherry Chester. What is Cherry Chester - some kind of new soft drink?
- Train stenographer: She's a motion picture star.
- Anthony Amberton: Never go to pictures. Marshmallow-faced movie stars make me sick.
- Cherry Chester: There's only one way I can ever fall in love. Not as Cherry Chester the actress, but as a plain, ordinary girl. I could only fall in love with a man I don't know - and he didn't know me.
- Cherry Chester: From now on I'm going to be an angel. I promise you - an absolute angel.
- Mrs. Boyce Medford: That's my good girl.
- Anthony Amberton: But head hunters - they're out in force.
- Ogden Holbrook: Mmm. But Cherry Chester came in on this train too.
- Anthony Amberton: Who?
- Ogden Holbrook: Well, you know...
- Anthony Amberton: Oh, that movie marshmallow... Yeah, she probably lives on this sort of thing.
- Lem: I didn't quite catch your name.
- Cherry Chester: I didn't throw it. My name is Brown.
- Lem: How's that?
- Cherry Chester: [Loudly in his ear] I say my name is Brown.
- Lem: Oh, Brown. His name is Smith. Heh, heh, heh.
- Anthony Amberton: [Looking at his wrist] Somebody stole my watch.
- Cherry Chester: It's 27 minutes past three.
- Anthony Amberton: I'm late. I have to go.
- [He gets out of the carriage as it moves on, and leave the money she had given him thinking he was a poor thief out of work, and leaves a card of the lodgings he will be at in the mountains of New Hampshire]
- Anthony Amberton: When marriage comes in the door, love flies out the window. Marriage is the mortgage a woman holds on a man's future. There shouldn't be any future to have, or any past. Only the present, the glorious present.
- Lucy Van Steedan: Now, go upstairs and scrub that disgusting paint off your face. Go this instant. And at dinner, I expect to see plain Sarah Brown, human being.
- Cherry Chester: If only I could be alone on a mountain top, with the sunshine, with the stars.
- Anthony Amberton: Listen to me. There's a destiny in this. I've been sent to save you. You've got to come with me.
- Cherry Chester: Come with...
- Anthony Amberton: No, don't speak. I'm going away. Far away from cites and people, and you've got to come with me.
- Cherry Chester: I don't...
- Anthony Amberton: You don't have to know my name. I don't have to know your name. All that matters is us - two free people with a world behind 'em.
- Mrs. Boyce Medford: Horace Van Steedan is the monument of respectability.
- Cherry Chester: So is Grant's Tomb, but who wants to marry it?
- Cherry Chester: I see you still don't trust automobiles.
- Brakeman: And we do for a little effectiveness.
- Man in other sleigh: Get along, Dave.
- Woman in other sleigh: [Turning to look behind them after Sarah and John's horse neighs] That's Susan, the Simpson's mare. She'll come to no good end.
- Mrs. Boyce Medford: Yes, Prince Ali and his 40 "we's." .. He's in New York. He telephoned you 16 times this afternoon.
- Cherry Chester: Only 16? I must be losing my grip.
- Mitty Simpson: This is the rose room. We call it that on account of the roses.
- Cherry Chester: That's a very good reason.
- Mitty Simpson: Well, now that you're here, come on in. And you too, Lem. That baggage won't walk in by itself.
- Anthony Amberton: All my life I've hated laws, conventions, regulations, marriage.
- Cherry Chester: Well, what's the matter with marriage?
- Anthony Amberton: It's so unimportant.
- Cherry Chester: You're mother and father didn't think so. Or, did they?
- Anthony Amberton: Well, theirs was a different generation.
- Lucy Van Steedan: [Cherry's grandmother] Send them away, I tell you... . I won't have it. I won't see any of that newspaper rabble.
- Cherry Chester: [as Horace approaches her on the balcony] No!
- Horace Van Steedan: No what?
- Cherry Chester: No, I won't.
- Horace Van Steedan: But I haven't asked you to do anything.
- Cherry Chester: You're going to ask me to marry you. I won't.
- Horace Van Steedan: Sarah, you're psychically magnificent.
- Mitty Simpson: [after Sarah and John's sleigh ride ends with the sleigh overturned and the horse running off] If I'd been asked, I could have warned you against Susan during full moon. I don't where she gets her skittish notions - certainly not from me.
- Lucy Van Steedan: Why on earth I should be burdened with a public fanatic over a granddaughter is more than I can understand. Oh, there you are.
- [Spotting Cherry who just came into the house]
- Lucy Van Steedan: [to Cherry/Sarah] You've been in the house just two minutes and there's bedlam. Lock all the doors, pull down the shades.
- Babson: Yes, ma'am.
- Lucy Van Steedan: Sarah Brown, come here!
- Cherry Chester: Boyce, have you ever seen me drunk?
- Mrs. Boyce Medford: No, dear. Only disorderly.
- Cherry Chester: Well, I'm starting in now.
- Anthony Amberton: [as Sarah struggles to get up after falling with her skis, stubbornly refusing his help] A friend of mine spent three weeks once trying to get up. We had to feed her out of a bottle.
- Cherry Chester: Wait! Wait a minute. Have I told you about my temper?
- Anthony Amberton: I've had complaints about mine.
- Cherry Chester: We'll fight every day.
- Anthony Amberton: We'll make up every night.
- Cherry Chester: I'll leave you over and over again.
- Anthony Amberton: I'll always find you.
- Cherry Chester: [In a straitjacket in the ambulance with Anthony] I'm tired of having my own arms around me.
- Anthony Amberton: I don't say that marriage is perfect, but it's the only solution for the average woman.
- Cherry Chester: But I'm not an average woman. Would you have fallen in love with an average woman?
- Anthony Amberton: Certainly not! Would you have fallen in love with an average man?
- Cherry Chester: Certainly not! What makes you think I've fallen in love?
- Anthony Amberton: If you call making faces on the screen a career.
- Cherry Chester: What?
- Anthony Amberton: You certainly can't call it acting.
- Cherry Chester: I suppose you call that tripe you turn out writing?
- Anthony Amberton: Ah ha! So you've read my book?
- Cherry Chester: I started one.
- Anthony Amberton: What one?
- Cherry Chester: That masterpiece where you look down all six of the pyramids.
- Anthony Amberton: There are nine pyramids.
- Cherry Chester: Six!
- Anthony Amberton: Nine!
- Cherry Chester: Didn't you ever want to find me again?
- Anthony Amberton: Did you want to be found?
- Cherry Chester: Here I am.
- Anthony Amberton: Here you are. And if you think you'll ever get away again
- Cherry Chester: You think I ever want to get away again?
- Anthony Amberton: All I can say is, you're a stubborn, disagreeable little brat.
- Cherry Chester: And all I can say is you're a contemptable, nasty, ill-tempered conceited monster.
- Anthony Amberton, Cherry Chester: I married Sarah Brown, and now I find I'm the husband of Cherry Chester too. So what?
- Cherry Chester: I married John Smith and I find I'm the wife of Anthony Amberton besides. So what?
- Anthony Amberton: Darling, we're bigamists, do you mind?
- Cherry Chester: I love it.