Red, Alison's Dance Partner at Party:
[Flirting] Oh, you make these other women look like it's a hard times party.
Alison Drake: [Unimpressed] Oh, say it isn't so!
--Ruth Chatterton (as Alison Drake) in Female
Alison Drake: [Unimpressed] Oh, say it isn't so!
--Ruth Chatterton (as Alison Drake) in Female
Alison Drake:
[throwing a pillow onto a "lounging area"] Are you naturally enthusiastic?
--Ruth Chatterton (as Alison Drake) in Female
--Ruth Chatterton (as Alison Drake) in Female
Alison Drake:
[wide-eyed] Oh I'm really quite human, you'd be amazed...
--Ruth Chatterton (as Alison Drake) in Female
--Ruth Chatterton (as Alison Drake) in Female
Alison Drake:
I know for some women, men are a household necessity; myself, I'd rather have a canary.
--Ruth Chatterton (as Alison Drake) in Female
--Ruth Chatterton (as Alison Drake) in Female
Fran Dodsworth:
Remember, I, I did make a home for you once, and I'll do it again, only you've got to let me have my fling now! Because you're simply rushing at old age, Sam, and I'm not ready for that yet.
--Ruth Chatterton (as Fran Dodsworth) in Dodsworth
--Ruth Chatterton (as Fran Dodsworth) in Dodsworth
Frisco Jenny Sandoval:
Cellars of Chinatown. Yeah, I was there. So was he. It was there I gave him life. He gives me death.
--Ruth Chatterton (as ) in Frisco Jenny
--Ruth Chatterton (as ) in Frisco Jenny
Della, Alison's Maid:
Lemon or cream, Madame?
Harriet Brown: Cream and two sugars, please.
Alison Drake: Cream and two sugars? My, you're a reckless woman! No wonder you look so happy.
--Ruth Chatterton (as Alison Drake) in Female
Harriet Brown: Cream and two sugars, please.
Alison Drake: Cream and two sugars? My, you're a reckless woman! No wonder you look so happy.
--Ruth Chatterton (as Alison Drake) in Female
Miss Tessie:
Business was very gratifying this month.
Frisco Jenny Sandoval: Conventions always help.
--Ruth Chatterton (as ) in Frisco Jenny
Frisco Jenny Sandoval: Conventions always help.
--Ruth Chatterton (as ) in Frisco Jenny
[last lines]
Fran Dodsworth: Are you going back to that washed-out expatriate in Naples?
Sam Dodsworth: Yes, and when I marry her, I'm going back to doing things.
Fran Dodsworth: Do you think you'll ever get me out of your blood?
Sam Dodsworth: Maybe not, but love has got to stop someplace short of suicide.
[Dodsworth runs to the gangplank and jumps on just as it is lowered away from the ship. The boat whistle sounds]
Steward: But the gentleman will miss the boat!
Fran Dodsworth: [shouting above the boat whistle] HE'S GONE ASHORE! HE'S GONE ASHORE!
--Ruth Chatterton (as Fran Dodsworth) in Dodsworth
Fran Dodsworth: Are you going back to that washed-out expatriate in Naples?
Sam Dodsworth: Yes, and when I marry her, I'm going back to doing things.
Fran Dodsworth: Do you think you'll ever get me out of your blood?
Sam Dodsworth: Maybe not, but love has got to stop someplace short of suicide.
[Dodsworth runs to the gangplank and jumps on just as it is lowered away from the ship. The boat whistle sounds]
Steward: But the gentleman will miss the boat!
Fran Dodsworth: [shouting above the boat whistle] HE'S GONE ASHORE! HE'S GONE ASHORE!
--Ruth Chatterton (as Fran Dodsworth) in Dodsworth
[last lines]
Jim Thorne: What about you?
Alison Drake: Oh, you didn't know? I'm gonna have nine children.
Jim Thorne: Is that all?
Alison Drake: That's all.
--Ruth Chatterton (as Alison Drake) in Female
Jim Thorne: What about you?
Alison Drake: Oh, you didn't know? I'm gonna have nine children.
Jim Thorne: Is that all?
Alison Drake: That's all.
--Ruth Chatterton (as Alison Drake) in Female