Kim Hunter: Elizabeth Ostricker

Quotes 

• Elizabeth : If somebody comes in while you're here, watch them. And then, after they're gone, let me know how long you think they'll be married.

  Patrick : They'll be married forever, won't they?

  Elizabeth : No, I'm afraid not...

• Patrick : I think I'd better go...

  Elizabeth : ...Well, why not?

  Patrick : I mean...

  Elizabeth : Yes?

  Patrick : Well... now that I know that... that you're not married... I don't know how to talk to you anymore.

• Patrick : I meet a girl I'm sure I'd like to marry; my personality changes - can't talk. Somebody comes along who can, and... I'm finished! Happens every time!

  Elizabeth : You got a job?

  Patrick : What's the use of working if you haven't got a wife, and a home, and a family?

• Elizabeth : What is the whole idea of marriage?

  Patrick : Well, to make a home - establish a family.

  Elizabeth : What about happiness? Personal happiness?

  Patrick : People who want to be happy every minute can never be happy. Happiness is something that you... well, you get when... when you begin to understand that there are more important things.

• Gambler : I knew a dentist looked just like a brigadier general.

  Elizabeth : What's a brigadier general look like?

  Gambler : Like nothing in God's green earth, once you take away the uniform and that lonely little star. I just can't stand it.

• Elizabeth : This is the marriage license bureau of the city of Santa Monica - just as it says on the door. Don't you read what's on doors?

  Gambler : No, only labels on bottles.