- Ada Brook: Luke carried me across the threshold.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: By night, I hope. It's not exactly an image for public consumption.
- Marian Brook: [asking about an unopened letter] Who was that from?
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Your Aunt Ada. No doubt bleating on about her untold happiness. If only it were untold.
- Marian Brook: What does Aunt Ada say?
- Agnes Van Rhijn: What does she always say? She's wonderful, he's wonderful, even the Niagara Falls are wonderful. She seems rather limited in her choice of adjectives.
- Marian Brook: When is Dashiell's party?
- Agnes Van Rhijn: The afternoon of the 21st. What's the matter?
- Marian Brook: That's the afternoon I said I would teach Jane Addams' class.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Oh, you cannot be serious. You would miss it to teach a bunch of indigents? How will painting help them anyway? What are they to learn next? Gilding? Lace making? How to dive for pearls?
- Marian Brook: I'm teaching them to read and write.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: But why not teach them the following day. They'll still be poor and needy on the 22nd, I promise you.
- Dorothy Scott: We just want you to be safe.
- Peggy Scott: Well, you can't always keep your children safe. You know that.
- Maud Beaton: Really, Mr. Van Rhijn, isn't this the moment when I slap you and walk off in a huff?
- Oscar Van Rhijn: Not in our version of the story.
- Marian Brook: Try to remember that reading is a key, and it will unlock your life if only you'll let it.
- Larry Russell: Another suitor?
- Gladys Russell: You joke. He's been stalking me at every ball I go to.
- Larry Russell: Well, you are a debutante. You're an heiress. What did you expect?
- Gladys Russell: I didn't quite understand it would be open season.
- Larry Russell: Nonsense. They are the hunters, and you're the prey. Just fend them off until you find the right one.
- Henderson: On behalf of these men, I ask you to leave. If you stay, there will be bloodshed. I beg you, go.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Good came from the American Revolution, but it was difficult to live through all the same.
- Frances Montgomery: Are you fond of flowers, Aunt Agnes?
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Very fond. As long as someone else has grown them.
- George Russell: What were those shots?
- Commanding Officer: Please go back into the building, sir. Go back, all of you. It's not safe for you to be here.
- George Russell: I am George Russell. These are my mills. And I demand to know what's happening.
- Commanding Officer: They were warning shots. No one was hurt.
- Agnes Van Rhijn: Even Jesus would understand that she cannot turn down a potential suitor for a bunch of hobbledehoys.
- Commanding Officer: We're here to clear the way for the new workers to get the mills back into production. We have no wish to shed blood, but we shall do so. We will mow every one of you down if we must. You have one minute to clear the way.