Tracy Lord: You haven't switched from liquor to dope, by any chance, have you Dexter?


--Katharine Hepburn (as Tracy Lord) in The Philadelphia Story

Tracy Lord: You're just a mass of prejudices, aren't you? You're so much thought and so little feeling, Professor.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Tracy Lord) in The Philadelphia Story

Tracy Lord: You're too good for me, George. You're a hundred times too good. And I'd make you most unhappy, most. That is, I'd do my best to.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Tracy Lord) in The Philadelphia Story

Dinah Lord: [describing her "dream" to Tracy] Do you know what I saw coming out of the woods?
Tracy Lord: I haven't the faintest idea, a skunk?


--Katharine Hepburn (as Tracy Lord) in The Philadelphia Story

Lao Er Tan - Middle Son: I do not have the words.
Jade Tan: I am not very learned.
Lao Er Tan - Middle Son: Is that why you do not often speak to me?
Jade Tan: Two must speak for understanding.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Jade Tan) in Dragon Seed

Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.
Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter

Henry II: The day those stout hearts band together is the day that pigs get wings.
Eleanor: There'll be pork in the treetops come morning.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter

Henry II: What is this? I'm not mouldering. My paint's not peeling off. I'm good for years.
Eleanor: How many years? Suppose I hold you back for one. I can. It's possible. Suppose your first son dies, ours did. It's possible. Suppose you're daughtered next, we were. That too is possible. How old is daddy then? What kind of spindly, ricket-ridden, milky, wizened, dim-eyed, gammy-handed, limpy line of things will you beget?


--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter

Wu Lien: I am neither for or against anything.
Jade Tan: What you are not for you are against.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Jade Tan) in Dragon Seed

Arthur Russell: [walking with Alice on the street, discussing her brother] I thought it was quite original, his, uh, amusing himself with the cloakroom attendants.
Alice Adams: [laughs] Walter is original. You know, he's a very odd boy. I was afraid you'd misunderstand him. He tells the most wonderful darkie stories and he'll just do anything to get them to talk to him.
[laughs]
Alice Adams: We think he'll probably write about them some day. He's rather literary.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Alice Adams) in Alice Adams