Charles Pike: You're certainly a funny girl for anybody to meet who's just been up the Amazon for a year.
Jean Harrington: Good thing you weren't up there two years.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Jean) in The Lady Eve

Police Lt. Bill Doyle: [after just being married and arriving at their new home] What do you think of the neighbourhood?
Kathy Ferguson Doyle: Right now I'm not thinking about the neighbourhood.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Kathy Ferguson Doyle) in Crime of Passion

Jim Brecan: You have a way with elephants.
Gwen Moore: It's a male elephant.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as ) in Escape to Burma

Steward: Breakfast, sir?
Charles: What'd you say?
Steward: I said, "Breakfast, sir?"
Charles: Two scotch and sodas with plain water.
Jean Harrington: Don't you take cream and sugar?
Charles: No, I always take it black.
[pause]
Charles: Say, what am I talking about?
Jean Harrington: That's what I was wondering.
Steward: How about a nice bicarbonate of soda with an egg in it? It does wonders!


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Jean) in The Lady Eve

[first lines]
Leona Stevenson: Operator! Operator! Operator!
Voice of Operator: Your call please?
Leona Stevenson: Operator, I've been ringing Murray Hill 35097 for the last half hour and the line is always busy. Will you ring it for me, please?


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Leona Stevenson) in Sorry, Wrong Number

[In the Temple of Happiness.]
Florence: Outside the pulse of the world beats with hate! Hate! But here with you there is a heartbeat of love!


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Florence Fallon) in The Miracle Woman

[last lines]
Hannah Sempler: [said to statue] Forever, Ethan. No one can change it... forever.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Hannah Sempler) in The Great Man's Lady

Richard 'Dick' Ives II: No more theories then?
Anne Vincent Ives: What have theories to do with love?


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Anne Vincent Ives) in Illicit

Ann: [Ann is pleading with John not to commit suicide] Please don't give up. We'll start all over again. Just you and I. It isn't too late. The John Doe movement isn't dead yet. You see, John, it isn't dead or they wouldn't be here. It's alive in them. They kept it alive by being afraid. That's why they came up here. Oh, darling!... We can start clean now. Just you and I. It'll grow John, and it'll grow big because it'll be honest this time. Oh, John, if it's worth dying for, it's worth living for. Oh please, John... You wanna be honest, don't ya? Well, you don't have to die to keep the John Doe ideal alive. Someone already died for that once. The first John Doe. And he's kept that ideal alive for nearly 2,000 years. It was He who kept it alive in them. And He'll go on keeping it alive for ever and always - for every John Doe movement these men kill, a new one will be born. That's why those bells are ringing, John. They're calling to us, not to give up but to keep on fighting, to keep on pitching. Oh, don't you see darling? This is no time to give up. You and I, John, we... Oh, no, no, John. If you die, I want to die too. Oh, oh, I love you.


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Ann Mitchell) in Meet John Doe

Ann: If it was raining hundred dollar bills, you'd be out looking for a dime you lost someplace!


--Barbara Stanwyck (as Ann Mitchell) in Meet John Doe