- Gloria Wandrous: I think I'll get cleaned up and do my nails.
- Mrs. Fanny Thurber: Yes, sharpen them.
- Gloria Wandrous: For you, Mrs. Thurber, I would.
- Gloria Wandrous: You act like a man who's expecting his wife back in town.
- Weston Liggett: How did you know? Today?
- Gloria Wandrous: I always knew. Someday.
- Weston Liggett: Here I was, trying to find a way to - look, Gloria, I have to spend at least tonight with her.
- Gloria Wandrous: A good night's sleep will be the best thing for you.
- Gloria Wandrous: I spent the night with Steve's girlfriend, Norma.
- Mrs. Wandrous: Ah, isn't that nice! She knows a boy whose girlfriend is that unselfish!
- Mrs. Fanny Thurber: That's a girlfriend that won't have a boyfriend long.
- Gloria Wandrous: A compliment from you, Mrs. Thurber?
- Mrs. Fanny Thurber: I must have said it wrong.
- Mrs. Jescott: Somewhere, at this very minute, he's probably lifting a glass in a bar or some woman's skirt or both! And you know it.
- Emily Liggett: Oh, Mother, don't be vulgar!
- Mrs. Jescott: Vulgarity has its uses.
- Gloria Wandrous: Command performances leave me quite cold. I've had more fun in the back seat of a '39 Ford than I could ever have in the vault of the Chase Manhattan Bank.
- Gloria Wandrous: Terrible, isn't it, Steve? I say "yes" too much when I shouldn't and you say "no" too much when you shouldn't.
- Weston Liggett: I've been kind of busy.
- Man: Yeah, I heard. I heard. That's the kind of busy-ness I wouldn't mind having - again!
- Weston Liggett: What are you talking about?
- Man: Oh, come on, Liggett. Come on, huh?
- [puts his arm around him]
- Man: Gloria, huh? Sure! Oh, she's - she's frantic! Isn't she like a rocket right off the Earth? Who should know better than yours truly? Oh-ooh, mother, help me. I'd have left home for that! Ah, she's got a traveling itch; she's like a flea. Hop, hop, hop - from one dog to another. She bites you and she's gone. She picks you up and she drops you. Well, welcome to the fraternity! We meet once a year at Yankee Stadium.
- Norma: By the way, for the record, what did happen to your dress?
- Gloria Wandrous: Well, it's a funny thing. One minute it was there and the next minute it wasn't.
- Norma: Much like your virtue I presume.
- Weston Liggett: Why do you need a psychiatrist? I've never met anyone direct and uninhibited as you.
- Gloria Wandrous: Well, you know that Latin motto, SIC TRANSIT GLORIA? Well, I'm the Gloria, and in my case, the SIC is for real sick. I'm not too sure about the TRANSIT. I think it has something to do with my car.
- Man: [trying to check in a shady motel] I see you're all filled up.
- Man: Oh, well, I wouldn't be Happy if I wasn't.
- [sees Gloria waiting in the car]
- Man: We always have room for two more weary travelers.
- Emily Liggett: Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get some rest.
- Man: Oh, sure. I know, I know. Hey, I've got a new joke for ya! Now, it's crazy and there's some words that you may not have heard...
- Emily Liggett: Now, please...
- Man: But, it seems there were these two old maids...
- Emily Liggett: Now, some other time, Happy. Later.
- Man: Oh, sure. A man's got to get his rest. He's got to get it regular.
- Gloria Wandrous: He made me so damn mad. He left me money, he actually left me *money*!
- [pause]
- Gloria Wandrous: Well what would you have done?
- Steve Carpenter: I don't know. You see my work is designed so that people *will* leave me money.
- Steve Carpenter: I hear he's a lush.
- Gloria Wandrous: A rumor of little mind. We did have a drink last night.
- Steve Carpenter: One?
- Gloria Wandrous: A dozen maybe.
- Weston Liggett: Bing, you know three of the most overrated things in this world? Home loving, home cooking and security.
- Bingham Smith: That should be engraved over the doorway of The Stork Club.
- Weston Liggett: No. It should be over the doorway of my apartment.
- Gloria Wandrous: I always said I'd try anything once.
- Steve Carpenter: Ever try common sense?
- Gloria Wandrous: Only in desperation.
- Steve Carpenter: What does your analyst say about all this?
- Gloria Wandrous: Oh, I only tell Dr. Tredman what I think he ought to hear.
- Steve Carpenter: Oh, that's very intelligent.
- Gloria Wandrous: If I were intelligent, I wouldn't need a psychiatrist.
- Steve Carpenter: I'm sick of opening that door everyday and finding you boozed up, burned out and ugly.
- Gloria Wandrous: Steve, listen to old Gloria. The greater the sacrifice you ask a woman to make for you the more she knows you love her. Honestly!
- Gloria Wandrous: What's my mother gonna think if I show up dressed like this?
- Steve Carpenter: Your mother knows everything about you.
- Gloria Wandrous: Yeah, that may be so, but we never admit it. I'm still her innocent little girl. And she's my dear, sweet cookie-baking mother.
- Steve Carpenter: So go home, give her an innocent smile and - have a cookie.
- Steve Carpenter: What's with you and Yale? Always Yale.
- Gloria Wandrous: It's the last college left.
- Steve Carpenter: What?
- Gloria Wandrous: I started with Amherst, and I worked my way through the alphabet to Yale. I'm stuck there. Of course, I could work backwards again.
- Steve Carpenter: [from the other room] Are you decent?
- Norma: I am!
- [to Gloria]
- Norma: You can speak for yourself.
- Emily Liggett: I was asked if you'd consider being elected to the board of governors.
- Weston Liggett: Why me? Nobody on that board is under 60. Isn't that where aging, useless executives go to die?
- Weston Liggett: When are you coming back to town?
- Bingham Smith: Soon as I can. Why? You getting lonesome?
- Weston Liggett: Sometimes. The question was more one of curiosity than passion.
- Norma: It's Gloria or me.
- Steve Carpenter: Are you gonna tell me who I can or can't have for friends?
- Norma: I'm only telling you that you can't kiss me, wishing I were Gloria anymore.
- Weston Liggett: As Vice President in charge of nonsense, I have to keep a $6 million customer happy, don't I?
- Gloria Wandrous: I hate to drink and run. To the three of us.
- Steve Carpenter: One for all, and all for one.
- Norma: The question is: which one?
- Steve Carpenter: Let me get this straight. You mean you're handing me an ultimatum?
- Norma: The first ultimatum is always the hardest. Goodbye and good luck.
- Steve Carpenter: Gloria, don't go like this.
- Norma: My name is Norma.
- Norma: Just remember that suit has led a sheltered life. It shocks easily.
- Gloria Wandrous: Then it's time it had a little adventure.
- Emily Liggett: Why do you say such cruel things about yourself?
- Weston Liggett: To beat everybody, including you, to the punch.
- Norma: What're we gonna do?
- Steve Carpenter: About what?
- Norma: Me. You. Her. Three mixed-up musketeers.
- Weston Liggett: [on the phone to Gloria] Wow! I haven't heard words like that since I was in Marine boot camp. But you're way out of line, honey. Okay, no "honey". But, I tore your dress last night and felt I owed you a new one. After all, only a fool would offer pennies for a Renoir.
- Weston Liggett: *Now* I get it. You pick the man. He doesn't pick you.
- Gloria Wandrous: Finally! Why I'm not teaching logic at Columbia, I'll never know.
- Weston Liggett: One moment. Postgraduate course. You also drop the man when you want to?
- Gloria Wandrous: And without a parachute.
- Weston Liggett: Gloria, now look, you have a price. We all have - and I can go pretty high. So hold out for all you can get. You may hit it pretty big. On the other hand, if you try for too much, you may end up with nothing.
- Gloria Wandrous: You couldn't match what I've already turned down. 180-foot yacht in the French Riviera. Van Goghs in every room, genuine-type Van Goghs. Paid for by this man with pocket money. Annuities for life. Jewelry.
- Mrs. Wandrous: [to Gloria] You're getting circles under your eyes, dear.
- Mrs. Fanny Thurber: Too much reading.
- Gloria Wandrous: Dear Mrs. Thurber.
- Mrs. Fanny Thurber: Well, how's church?
- Gloria Wandrous: Why don't you go sometime and find out?
- Weston Liggett: What do you want?
- Gloria Wandrous: Just what I'm getting.
- Weston Liggett: Oh, now, come on, doll face.
- Gloria Wandrous: You must go to some very bad plays.
- Weston Liggett: You're all alike, aren't you? Play tough.
- Gloria Wandrous: I'm not "like" anyone. I'm me.
- Weston Liggett: Gloria, you're wonderful.
- Gloria Wandrous: "Wild" is the word.
- Weston Liggett: First genuine wildness I've come across in a woman.
- Gloria Wandrous: Have you stopped to think that perhaps you bring out the wildness in me?
- Weston Liggett: With you, who has time to think?
- Gloria Wandrous: Why don't we go on a long trip to faraway places - exploring?
- Weston Liggett: Exploring what?
- Gloria Wandrous: What else? Each other.
- Steve Carpenter: I don't know where she is. I've been calling BUtterfield 8 for the past four days. They don't know where she is.
- Norma: I do.
- Steve Carpenter: Where?
- Norma: She's way out - in another world.
- Gloria Wandrous: [Liggett leans in for a kiss] Drink up before you're too busy to reach for it.
- Weston Liggett: And then it's: go - go - go.
- Gloria Wandrous: Slowly, friend. I have work to do.
- Weston Liggett: Namely?
- Gloria Wandrous: I have three elegant bistros where I'm obliged to be photographed in this dress. Besides, you'll enjoy seeing my good side - first.
- Weston Liggett: [to Gloria] Happy was in vaudeville once. I'll tell you about it later.
- Happy: In vaudeville? I *was* vaudeville. You should see my scrapbooks!
- Norma: This fight is far too important for me to run away. If I'm going to lose, it's only gonna be because I'm thoroughly beaten. - If you don't kiss me, I'm going to kiss you.
- Weston Liggett: He was an inventor. Can you think of anything more useless in a small town like this?
- Gloria Wandrous: Not if he invented a way to get out.
- Gloria Wandrous: The company belongs to my wife's family. My wife is a fact that I can't avoid. She's the center of a spiderweb of family, money, country clubs, and time-killing childish employments.
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