Esther Smith: I'm going to let John Truett kiss me tonight.
Rose Smith: Esther Smith.
Esther Smith: Well, if we're going to get married, I may as well start it.
Rose Smith: Nice girls don't let men kiss them until after they're engaged. Men don't want the bloom rubbed off.
Esther Smith: Personally, I think I have too much bloom. Maybe that's the trouble with me.


--Judy Garland (as Esther Smith) in Meet Me in St. Louis

Esther Smith: It's our last dance in St. Louis. I feel like I'm going to cry.


--Judy Garland (as Esther Smith) in Meet Me in St. Louis

Esther Smith: John Truett. I've come here to ask you something... What do you mean hitting a five-year-old child?... The next time you want to hit somebody, pick on somebody your own size. If there's anything I hate, loathe, despise, and abominate, it's a bully.
[punches and kicks him]


--Judy Garland (as Esther Smith) in Meet Me in St. Louis

Esther Smith: Meeting him across the lawn for the first time would be so ordinary. I don't want to be just introduced to him. I want it to be something strange and romantic and something I'll always remember.


--Judy Garland (as Esther Smith) in Meet Me in St. Louis

Jenny Bowman: I can't be spread so thin, I'm just one person. I don't want to be rolled out like a pastry so everybody can get a nice big bite of me. I'm just me. I belong to myself. I can do whatever I damn well please with myself and nobody can ask any questions.
David Donne: Now you know that is not true, don't you?
Jenny Bowman: Well I'm not gonna do it anymore. And that's final! its just not worth all the deaths that I have to die.


--Judy Garland (as Jenny Bowman) in I Could Go On Singing

Jenny Bowman: You think you can make me sing? Do you think you can - do you think George can make me sing? or Ida? You can get me there, sure, but can you make me sing? I sing for myself. I sing when I want to, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Whenever I want - do you under stand that?


--Judy Garland (as Jenny Bowman) in I Could Go On Singing

Jo Hayden: He's wrong and I love him. He's right and I love him


--Judy Garland (as Jo Hayden) in For Me and My Gal

Jo Hayden: Who's the want ad with the squirrel around his neck?


--Judy Garland (as Jo Hayden) in For Me and My Gal

Jo Hayden: You'll never be big time because you're small time in your heart.


--Judy Garland (as Jo Hayden) in For Me and My Gal

Judy: You just have no soul. Good night!


--Judy Garland (as ) in Every Sunday