Laurie : That's my grandfather. Are you scared of him?

Jo : I'm not scared of anyone! He looks stern, but my grandfather was much more handsome.

Marmee : Jo! We do not compare grandfathers!

Amy : Aren't you ashamed of a hand like that?

Laurie : No, I'm not.

Amy : It looks like it's never done a day of work in its life. And that ring is ridiculous.

Laurie : Jo gave me this ring.

Amy : I feel sorry for you, I really do. I just wish you'd bear it better.

Laurie : You don't have to feel sorry for me, Amy. You'll feel the same way one day.

Amy : No, I'd be respected if I couldn't be loved.

Laurie : And what work have you done lately, oh great "artiste" - or have you been too busy imagining how you'll spend Fred Vaughn's fortune? FRED VAUGHN, ladies and gentlemen!

Amy : I want to be great or nothing.

Laurie : [Laurie standing on a chair, looking out the window]

John Brooke : Please. You have to learn this. I can't afford to lose this position. Just return to the Cicero.

Laurie : There's a girl out there!

John Brooke : No, there is not.

Laurie : Yes, Mr. Brooke. There's a girl.

John Brooke : No, there is not.

Laurie : [Laurie moves a stool over for Mr. Brooke]

John Brooke : [stands on chair] Oh. There is a girl.

Laurie : That's a girl.

Laurie : [Yelling to Amy] Hello there. Are you hurt?

Amy : I'm Amy!

Laurie : Hello Amy, I'm Laurie.

Amy : I know. You brought my sister back from the dance. I would have never have sprained my ankle. I have lovely small feet, the best in the family. But I can never go home again, because I'm in such trouble. Look!

Amy : [Holding up her hand] Mr Davis hit me.

Amy : I'm sorry, Jo.

Marmee : Amy...

Amy : It's just that the only thing you care about is your writing so it's not as if I could hurt you by ruining one of your dresses. And I really did want to hurt you. I am the most sorry for it now. I'm so sorry.

Marmee : Jo, don't let the sun go down on your anger. Forgive her. Help each other, and you begin again tomorrow.

Jo : She doesn't deserve my forgiveness. I will hate her! I will hate her forever!

Laurie : Don't marry him.

Amy : What?

Laurie : Don't marry him.

Amy : Why?

Laurie : You know why...

Amy : No, Laurie, that's mean, it's just mean of you...

Laurie : Why?

Amy : I have been second to Jo my whole life in everything and I will not be the person you settle for just because you cannot have her. I won't do it, not when, not when I've spent my entire life loving you.

Amy : I'm making a mould of my foot for Laurie to remind him I have nice

Amy : Well, I believe we have some power over who we love, it isn't something that just happens to a person.

Laurie : I think the poets might disagree.

Amy : Well. I'm not a poet, I'm just a woman. And as a woman I have no way to make money, not enough to earn a living and support my family. Even if I had my own money, which I don't, it would belong to my husband the minute we were married. If we had children they would belong to him, not me. They would be his property. So don't sit there and tell me that marriage isn't an economic proposition, because it is. It may not be for you but it most certainly is for me.

Meg : I can't believe today is my wedding day!

Jo : Me neither.

Meg : What's wrong?

Jo : Nothing.

Meg : Jo...

Jo : We can leave. We can leave right now.

Meg : What?

Jo : I can make money: I'll sell stories, I'll do anything - cook, clean, work in a factory. I can make a life for us.

Meg : But, Jo...

Jo : And you, you should be an actress and have a life on the stage. Let's run away together.

Meg : I want to get married.

Jo March : Why?

Meg March : I love him.

Jo March : You will be bored of him in two years and we will be interesting forever.

Meg March : Just because my dreams are different than yours doesn't mean they're unimportant. I want a home and a family and I'm willing to work and struggle, but I want to do it with John.

Jo March : I just hate that you're leaving me. Don't leave.

Meg March : Oh, Jo, I'm not leaving you. Besides, one day it will be your turn.

Jo March : I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe. I would. I can't believe childhood is over.

Meg March : It was going to end one way or another. And what a happy end.

Jo : I can't say "Yes" truly so I won't say it at all. You'll see that I'm right, eventually, and you'll thank me for it.

Laurie : I'll be hanged if I do!

Jo : You'll find some lovely accomplished girl, who will adore you, and make a fine mistress for your fine house. I wouldn't. I'm homely and awkward and odd and you'd be ashamed of me and we would quarrel - we can't help it even now! - I'd hate elegant society and you'd hate my scribbling and we would be unhappy and wish we hadn't done it and everything will be horrid.

Laurie : Anything more?

Jo : Nothing more -- except that... I don't believe I will ever marry. I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up.

Laurie : You will care for somebody, and you'll love him tremendously, and live and die for him. I know you will, it's your way, and you will and I'll watch.

Jo : Teddy...

Jo March : Perhaps... perhaps I was too quick in turning him down. Laurie.

Marmee March : Do you love him?

Jo March : If he asked me again, I think I would say yes. Do you think he'll ask me again?

Marmee March : But do you love him?

Jo March : I care more to be loved. I want to be loved.

Marmee March : That is not the same as loving.

Jo : Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition, and they've got talent, as well as just beauty.
I'm so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for, I'm so sick of it.

Edward Wilson:
[Negotiating with an aging mobster] I could take the government off your back if you could help us,

Joseph Palmi:
You're the guys that scare me. You're the people that make big wars.

Edward Wilson:
No, we make sure the wars are small ones, Mr. Palmi.

How is your private paige?
Could have been better.
Paige you're never happy.

“- Baker Dill: People don't change.
- Karen Zariakas: I'm still the girl at the bridge.”

Vivian: I wouldn't know what to do.

Cay: You can start by putting the 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door.

Elin: You know what my nightmare is? That I'll stay in Amal. That I'll never move from here. I'll get kids, a car, a house... all of that. Then my husband will leave for someone younger and I'll be stuck with kids that just scream and nag. It's so fucking meaningless.

George: I believe the world is a better place if people aren't lying.

Maurice Hall: I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

Evelyn Lüthi: Most people spend their lives doing what they do second best.

Dee Dee Allen: We have come to show this community that gay people, and gay positive icons such as myself, are made of the same flesh and blood as they are.

Reggie Turner: [Holding up a framed picture of Queen Victoria] No exiled fairy's trousseau is complete without a signed portrait of the great widow herself. You must dance naked before it at the Jubilee next month.

Cap'n Andy Hawks: It's Saturday night again!

[He slaps Parthy affectionately on her rear end]

Parthy: Oh! It's Wednesday night and don't you strike me!

Cap'n Andy Hawks: It's Saturday night forever!

Parthy: Yes, and Fourth of July... and Christmas... and

[imitating Cap'n Andy when he celebrates New Year's Eve]

Parthy: Hap - - -py New Year!

Don Hewes: Why didn't you tell me I was in love with you?

Chance Harris: Y'all betting on stepping?

Senator Dianne Feinstein: If it works, why do you need to do it 183 times?

Karen Silkwood: You think I contaminated myself, you think I did that?

Mace Hurley: I think you'd do just about anything to shut down this plant.