- Lena Tempest: Honey, listen, with your looks you don't have to worry. You can get the youngest and best-looking man on the pier.
- Jenny Hager: I don't want the youngest. I want the richest.
- Jenny Hager: But... the rain. You know what happens to the roads in the rain.
- John Evered: Yes, they get very muddy, but they don't change the direction.
- Lincoln Pittridge: [Giving a sermon, quoting from Proverbs 5:3] The lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil... But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword!
- Jenny Hager: [contemptuously to Ephraim] You can't come into this house, you wretched coward! You killed your father!
- Jenny Hager: Your mother must be a wonderful woman. I hope that someday you'll say that I'm just like her.
- John Evered: That won't be easy. Mother had nine boys.
- Jenny Hager: Why does everything frighten you? You're going to make me very angry. and if I get angry and go on wanting you, I might tell him what happened between us.
- Ephraim Poster: Nothing's happened between us.
- Jenny Hager: [referring to his father] No, but which of us will he believe?