Eleanor: I am locked up with my sons. What mother does not dream of that?


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

Mrs. Random: [Mrs. Random thinks that David is crazy]
Mrs. Random: What are you doing?
Susan Vance: Hunting for George.
Mrs. Random: But why?
Susan Vance: [In a rush] David wants him, David loves him, David thinks he's such a nice dog.
Mrs. Random: Susan, he's a perfect little fiend and you know it!
Susan Vance: But David doesn't.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Susan Vance) in Bringing up Baby

Mrs. Random: Who is this David?
Susan Vance: Oh, he's a friend of Mark.
Mrs. Random: Is that all you know about him?
Susan Vance: No, I know I want to marry him. He doesn't know it but I am.
Mrs. Random: Now see here, if you are going to marry him on my money you are very much mistaken. I don't want another lunatic in the family I have lunatic enough all ready. When you going to marry him? What's his name?
Susan Vance: It's uh Bone
Mrs. Random: Bones
Susan Vance: One Bone
Mrs. Random: I don't care if it's one bone or two bones it's a ridiculous name.
Mrs. Random: What does he do?
Susan Vance: He hunts
Mrs. Random: Hunts. Hunts what?
Susan Vance: Animals I should think.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Susan Vance) in Bringing up Baby

Dr. Fritz Lehman: Well, you see, the love impulse in men frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict.
Susan Vance: [Excitedly] The love impulse!
Dr. Fritz Lehman: Without my knowing more about it, my rough guess would be, he has a fixation on you, a fixaation that...
Susan Vance: No wait, I can't remember any more than that!


--Katharine Hepburn (as Susan Vance) in Bringing up Baby

[reading letter about new leopard]
Susan Vance: "He's three years old, gentle as a kitten, and likes dogs." I wonder whether Mark means that he eats dogs or is fond of them?


--Katharine Hepburn (as Susan Vance) in Bringing up Baby

[Susan is stealing David's car from the golf course]
Susan Vance: Now, don't lose your temper.
David Huxley: My dear young lady, I'm not losing my temper. I'm merely trying to play some golf!
Susan Vance: You choose the funniest places; this is a parking lot.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Susan Vance) in Bringing up Baby

David Huxley: Besides that, tomorrow afternoon I'm going to get married!
Susan Vance: (laughs) What for?


--Katharine Hepburn (as Susan Vance) in Bringing up Baby

David Huxley: Well if you planned it, you couldn't have ruined my chances more completely. You told your aunt I was crazy didn't you? You told her my name was Bone and you didn't tell me. You told her I was a big game hunter and you didn't tell me. You'd tell anybody anything that comes into your head and you don't tell me.
Susan Vance: Well, here's something else I didn't tell you either...


--Katharine Hepburn (as Susan Vance) in Bringing up Baby

David Huxley: Yes, but I have to go to Carnegie Hall to meet Miss Swallow.
Susan Vance: Miss Swallow?
David Huxley: Yes, I'm engaged to Miss Swallow.
Susan Vance: Engaged -- to -- be -- married?
David Huxley: That's right.
Susan Vance: Oh that's nice. Then she won't mind waiting, will she?


--Katharine Hepburn (as Susan Vance) in Bringing up Baby

Susan Vance: If he gets some clothes he'll go away -- and he's the only man I've ever loved!


--Katharine Hepburn (as Susan Vance) in Bringing up Baby