Ann Hamilton: I think you wanted people to see the before first.
Alan Garroway: Why's that?
Ann Hamilton: Because otherwise you couldn't take the credit in the after.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Ann Hamilton) in Undercurrent

Ann Hamilton: If I relax, I'll drop dead.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Ann Hamilton) in Undercurrent

Bunny Watson: [pointing to a large stuffed bunny Mike has] Aren't you going to introduce me to Harvey?


--Katharine Hepburn (as Bunny Watson) in Desk Set

Bunny Watson: Did you invent something that carries the mail?


--Katharine Hepburn (as Bunny Watson) in Desk Set

Bunny Watson: Have some tequila, Peg.
Peg Costello: I don't think I should. There are 85 calories in a glass of champagne.
Bunny Watson: I have a little place in my neighborhood where I can get it for 65.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Bunny Watson) in Desk Set

Bunny Watson: I don't smoke, I only drink champagne when I'm lucky enough to get it, my hair is naturally natural, I live alone... and so do you.
Richard Sumner: How do you know that?
Bunny Watson: Because you're wearing one brown sock and one black sock.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Bunny Watson) in Desk Set

Bunny Watson: Oh, I remember what: my other bottle of champagne.
Peg Costello: If you take that champagne back to Legal, you won't even get another swallow.
Bunny Watson: That's right. Maybe I'd better drink it right here. Join me, Peg?
Peg Costello: Certainly. How does champagne go with Four Roses, Scotch, Martinis, and Bloody Marys?
Bunny Watson: Oh, fine. They're all the same base: alcohol.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Bunny Watson) in Desk Set

Christina Drayton: [to her assistant, Hilary, in the driveway] Now I have some instructions for you. I want you to go straight back to the gallery - Start your motor - When you get to the gallery tell Jennifer that she will be looking after things temporarily, she's to give me a ring if there's anything she can't deal with herself. Then go into the office, and make out a check, for "cash," for the sum of $5,000. Then carefully, but carefully Hilary, remove absolutely everything that might subsequently remind me that you had ever been there, including that yellow thing with the blue bulbs which you have such an affection for. Then take the check, for $5,000, which I feel you deserve, and get - permanently - lost. It's not that I don't want to know you, Hilary - although I don't - it's just that I'm afraid we're not really the sort of people that you can afford to be associated with.
[Hilary opens her mouth to say something]
Christina Drayton: Don't speak, Hilary, just... go.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Christina Drayton) in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Christina Drayton: I don't think I'm going to faint, but I'll sit down anyway.


--Katharine Hepburn (as Christina Drayton) in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Eleanor: [after Henry tells Eleanor he wants their marriage annulled] Out Eleanor... in Alais. Why?
Henry II: A new wife, wife, will bear me sons.
Eleanor: That is the single thing of which I would have thought you had enough.


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