Johnny Case: Anything else, sir?
Edward Seton: I beg your pardon.
Linda Seton: I should think you would.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Linda Seton) in Holiday

Macaulay Connor: It can't be anything like love, can it?
Tracy Lord: No, no, it can't be.
Macaulay Connor: Would it be inconvenient?
Tracy Lord: Terribly.


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

Macaulay Connor: My father was a history teacher.
Tracy Lord: English history has always fascinated me. Robin Hood, Cromwell, Jack the Ripper. Where did he teach? Your father I mean.


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

Macaulay Connor: Oh Tracy darling...
Tracy Lord: Mike...
Macaulay Connor: What can I say to you? Tell me darling.
Tracy Lord: Not anything - don't say anything. And especially not "darling."


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

Macaulay Connor: Tracy.
Tracy Lord: What do you want?
Macaulay Connor: You're wonderful. There's a magnificence in you, Tracy.
Tracy Lord: Now I'm getting self-conscious. It's funny. I - Mike? Let's...
Macaulay Connor: Yeah?
Tracy Lord: I don't know - go up, I guess, it's late.
Macaulay Connor: A magnificence that comes out of your eyes, in your voice, in the way you stand there, in the way you walk. You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts.
Tracy Lord: I don't seem to you made of bronze?
Macaulay Connor: No, you're made out of flesh and blood. That's the blank, unholy surprise of it. You're the golden girl, Tracy. Full of life and warmth and delight. What goes on? You've got tears in your eyes.
Tracy Lord: Shut up, shut up. Oh, Mike. Keep talking, keep talking. Talk, will you?


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

Amanda Bonner: Let's all be manly!


--Katharine Hepburn (as Amanda Bonner) in Adam's Rib

Amanda Bonner: Mr. Attinger had never touched you before this time?
Beryl Caighn: Sure
Amanda Bonner: Ahh!
Beryl Caighn: We used to shake hands quite a lot.
Amanda Bonner: I see. Did you enjoy it?


--Katharine Hepburn (as Amanda Bonner) in Adam's Rib

Amanda Bonner: No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Amanda Bonner) in Adam's Rib

Amanda Bonner: Nobody died in the evening paper, isn't that nice?


--Katharine Hepburn (as Amanda Bonner) in Adam's Rib

Ann Hamilton: [on seeing Washington, D.C] The closest I've ever come is a letter to my Congressman.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Ann Hamilton) in Undercurrent