- India Bridge: [as a tornado rages outside the room they are in] Walter, don't you think we might be better off downstairs in the basement?
- Walter Bridge: India, now look here, for 20 years I've been telling you when something will happen and when it will not happen. Now, have I ever, on any significant occasion been proved wrong?
- Dr. Alex Sauer: I heard a joke with a mythological theme the other day. It concerns the Nordic god Thor, who, like Jupiter, as you know, sometimes made appearances as a human being, as a swain or a shepard, in order to seduce a young maiden. Well, on one occasion, seduces just such a young maiden. They spent the night in rapturous, passionate love. The next day, he was a bit guilty. Perhaps I should tell her who I am. "So, darling, I am really Thor." She said, "Tho am I, but it was fun."
- India Bridge: Well, Walter says that Franklin Roosevelt is ruining this country.
- Grace Barron: You always vote the way Walter tells you to.
- India Bridge: I haven't - and it's only my own fault. No one else. I haven't kept up, so I do have to depend on him more than I should.
- Grace Barron: Yeah, we do depend on them, don't we.
- Band Vocalist: [singing] The masks are off, I know I'm playing a dangerous game, But, you make the rules, Take me, I'm yours...
- India Bridge: [after being quoted by an artist $450 for the cost of a painting] Well, I suppose they have to keep from starving somehow.
- Walter Bridge: Why don't they get jobs - like everyone else? Then they can do their artwork on weekends. That's how I'd handle the situation.
- Ruth Bridge: Oh, God, Daddy, times have changed. I mean, it was different when you and Mother were young.
- Walter Bridge: Some things never change. Love, respect, human decency. It doesn't change. Your Mother and I have those things.
- Youth at High School Dance: You wanna be a virgin - *forever*?
- Carolyn Bridge: I feel sorry for you. You mad man-child. Terribly, terribly sorry.
- India Bridge: Walter, I've noticed something very strange.
- Walter Bridge: What?
- India Bridge: Every hotel room we've stayed in since we came to Europe, has a mirror.
- Walter Bridge: Well?
- India Bridge: Well, why does it always have to be right in front of the bed?
- Walter Bridge: Other countries, other morals - as the old proverb would have it. Or, is it other times, other morals?
- Walter Bridge: [in Paris] I am mystified to know how these people hang onto their jobs, conduct any business. Three hour lunches and they loiter around these cafes all night. My God, back home they'd be cut to ribbons inside of a week.
- Dr. Alex Sauer: Is it true what they say, that you wouldn't give a Communist the time of day?
- Walter Bridge: I think everyone knows my opinion of Communism.
- Dr. Alex Sauer: Well, I think, it's one of the world's loveliest thoughts. Jesus wants us to love one another and Marx wanted everybody to have enough to eat. What's wrong with that, hmm?
- Walter Bridge: If that's what Marx really wanted, he's been a failure by all accounts.
- India Bridge: Your Dad and I are interested in knowing your friends. Does she go to Southwest High? Is Paquita in one of your classes? She certainly jingles a lot.
- Douglas Bridge (grown-up): She doesn't go to Southwest. She doesn't go to school. She works in a dime store. She lives down near Paseo.
- Julia: Listen, Mr. Walter Bridge who lives in a lovely home on Crescent Heights, I have given you the best years of my life. The very best years. Twenty years! It doesn't mean a thing to you. It never will. I kept telling myself that you're not really like that. But, I'm an idiot because you *are* like that - from the top of your Homburg hat right down to your black silk socks held up by your black garters.
- India Bridge: Walter, would you tell me something? Do you love me? Well, do you?
- Walter Bridge: If I didn't, I wouldn't be here.
- India Bridge: Well, couldn't you tell me once in awhile. Would that hurt you so very much?
- Walter Bridge: I'll tell you what you need more than analysis with Dr. Alex Sauer. How about a new car?
- Dr. Alex Sauer: [in Winter, buying flowers for his wife] It's wonderful, isn't it. In the depths of snow, these tokens of Spring. Life renewing itself so spectacularly, so joyously. It must mean something. Joy. Joie... Freude. Delight. Tell me, Walter, have you ever felt it?
- Walter Bridge: I've known contentment. If that's what you mean.
- Dr. Alex Sauer: I was thinking of something a little more - passionate.
- Walter Bridge: There are plenty of decent colored schools.
- India Bridge: Yes, I imagine so.
- Walter Bridge: Why doesn't he pick one of the them? Why in the devil does he want to go to Harvard?
- India Bridge: I've been thinking and I think I might like to try analysis. Well, Mabel Ong has been going to Dr. Sauer and she says he's been doing her a world of good.
- Walter Bridge: What Dr. Sauer practices is, in my opinion, on a par with fortune tellings, astrology, and lucky dice.
- India Bridge: He's somebody to talk to.
- Walter Bridge: You can talk to me.
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