Jennifer Jones credited as playing...
Catherine Barkley
- Catherine Barkley: He could have had anything he wanted if I had known. I would have married him or - or anything. I didn't because I thought it would be worse for him to go to war if we were lovers. Then, of course, he was killed. That was the end of it.
- Catherine Barkley: [referring to the war] Do you suppose it will always go on?
- Lt. Frederick Henry: No.
- Catherine Barkley: What's to stop it?
- Lt. Frederick Henry: It'll crack somewhere.
- Catherine Barkley: It really doesn't matter. We die anyway.
- Catherine Barkley: I remember having a silly idea he might come to the hospital where I was - with a saber cut, I suppose, and a bandage round his head.
- Lt. Frederick Henry: Doesn't happen like that.
- Catherine Barkley: No. He didn't have a saber cut. They blew him all to bits.
- Catherine Barkley: Hold me. Hold me. Say, "I've come back to Catherine in the night."
- Lt. Frederick Henry: I've come back to Catherine in the night.
- Catherine Barkley: Oh, darling, you have come back, haven't you?
- Lt. Frederick Henry: Yes.
- Catherine Barkley: I love you so - and it's been awful.
- Catherine Barkley: Oh, you poor man. You mean girls usually slap you.
- Lt. Frederick Henry: Well, not always.
- Catherine Barkley: And you don't mind when they do?
- Lt. Frederick Henry: It's more interesting when they don't. Especially when they're as beautiful as you are.
- Catherine Barkley: Why did you want to see me?
- Lt. Frederick Henry: Isn't that rather obvious?
- Catherine Barkley: You mean - to have a look?
- Lt. Frederick Henry: Well, you're nice looking at.
- Lt. Frederick Henry: You mustn't take things too hard. It's a short life at best.
- Catherine Barkley: Yes, I think that too.
- Lt. Frederick Henry: Then why not enjoy it? Let's drop the war.
- Catherine Barkley: It's very hard. There's no place to drop it.
- Catherine Barkley: I'm not mad, and I - I'm not gone off. It's - It's only a little sometimes. Now you can go off to war and forget all about this.
- Catherine Barkley: [after losing her virginity] It's very funny, really - happening to me like this. Not with someone I loved for years and years, but with someone I've just met. A stranger. Your name is Frederic Henry, isn't it?
- Catherine Barkley: Oh, darling. You do love me?
- Lt. Frederick Henry: I adore you. Come on. Please.
- Catherine Barkley: But do you really love me?
- Lt. Frederick Henry: Oh, don't keep saying that. Please, Catherine.
- Lt. Frederick Henry: I'm crazy in love with you.
- Catherine Barkley: You're sure? You're sure you love me?
- Lt. Frederick Henry: Very sure.
- Catherine Barkley: You will be good to me, won't you?
- Lt. Frederick Henry: Of course I will.
- Catherine Barkley: You will, won't you? 'Cause we're going to have a strange life.
- Lt. Frederick Henry: Strange?
- Lt. Frederick Henry: [rubbing their faces together] Smooth. Smooth as piano keys.
- Catherine Barkley: Smooth. Smooth as emery paper.
- Catherine Barkley: You mean that just for a bottle of brandy - you'd make an honest woman out of me?
- Catherine Barkley: See, darling, it would mean everything to me if I had any religion. But you're my only religion. You're all I've got.
- Catherine Barkley: I have to get you ready. I don't want anyone else to touch you. I know I'm silly, but I'll be furious if they touch you. Now, just a little advice. When you're going under the ether, don't think about us, because people get very blabby under an anesthetic. Think of something very unpleasant or - or say your prayers. That'll create a splendid impression.