Katharine Hepburn credited as playing...
- Hecuba: [to Helen] Never make gods out fools to whitewash your own evil.
- Helen: [to Menelaus] Am I allowed to speak against the charge? To show you that if I die that I shall die most wronged and innocent?
- Menelaus: I have come to kill you, not to argue with you.
- Hecuba: [ironically] Oh, hear her. She must not die unheard.
- Hecuba: This is no longer Troy. And we are not the lords of Troy. Endure.
- [last lines]
- Hecuba: Trembling body... old weak limbs... you must carry me on to the new day of slavery.
- Hecuba: Count no one happy, however fortunate, before he dies.
- Hecuba: I think those that are gone care little how they are buried. It is we, the living, our vanity.
- Hecuba: [when some of the women try to help her up] Let me be. Kindness unwanted is unkindness.
- Hecuba: [to Cassandra] Your sufferings, my child, have never taught you wisdom.
