- Sam Masterson: Look! I don't like to get pushed around! I don't like people I like to be pushed around! I don't like anybody to get pushed around!
- Martha Ivers: [in a catty tone, after letting herself in to the room unannounced where Toni is showing off a new outfit to Sam] The sun suit looks very well on her, Sam, she's got just the figure for it. She's a very pretty girl.
- Toni Marachek: [in retort] I give another show at 8 o'clock.
- Martha Ivers: In your room or here?
- Hotel Clerk: There's half as many baths as there is rooms. Half the rooms has baths and half hasn't; that's one way of looking at it. Another is, for each two rooms, one has a bath in the middle and the other hasn't. Or, you might say, there's a half a bath to each of two rooms.
- Mrs. Ivers: I know why you offered to tutor Martha. I know why you've made Walter do his daily lessons with her. I know why you want him to live here. A scholarship for Walter, that's why. But I'm not a foundation, Mr. O'Neil. I don't care if Walter drives a truck or goes to Harvard. Probably be a lot happier driving a truck.
- Bus Driver: What happened to you?
- Sam Masterson: [cut, bruised and disheveled from a beating] Not a thing. I'm just made up for Halloween.
- Martha Ivers: A sure thing is never a gamble.
- Sam Masterson: No? What odds you give that that's a fact?
- Sam Masterson: [recounting the time he was away from Iverstown] Well, that brings us up to my 21st year, when I became a man... officially.
- Martha Ivers: How did it feel to become a man, officially?
- Sam Masterson: I'd felt I'd been there before.
- Sam Masterson: How did you feel about becoming a woman, officially?
- Martha Ivers: I felt I'd been there, too.
- Sam Masterson: [seeing she has married Walter] Aren't you glad now you missed that circus train?
- Martha Ivers: I don't know.
- Martha Ivers: It would have been so different if you hadn't run away. It would have been you instead of Walter. Or if you had stopped me. When I lifted the cane, why didn't you stop me? You know how much I hated her! Why didn't you stop me?
- Sam Masterson: I wasn't there, Martha.
- Martha Ivers: And then I stood there after it was over...
- [realizes]
- Martha Ivers: You... you weren't there?
- Sam Masterson: No, Martha. I wasn't there. I left when your aunt came into the hallway. I didn't want to stick around. I was in enough trouble as it was. I never saw what happened. I never knew until tonight about your aunt or that man. The one they hung. The man that you and Walter killed.
- Sam Masterson: You fell down the stairs.
- Walter O'Neil: I remember. You... carried me in here?
- Sam Masterson: Yeah.
- [repeated line]
- Sam Masterson: Dont look back, baby. Don't ever look back. You know what happened to Lot's wife, don't ya?
- Toni Marachek: [offering a hotel room Gideon's Bible] I'll loan you a book for a couple of cigarettes, if you don't mind what kind of a book it is.
- Martha Ivers: What do you think he wants?
- Walter O'Neil: What he can get. He's a gambler, a sharpshooter, an angle boy. They come through my office by the hundreds. Couldn't you see blackmail in his eyes?
- Sam Masterson: [looking at a campaign poster of Walter O'Neil] Hey, I want to ask you something. Does that guy look like a scared little boy to you?
- Toni Marachek: He looks like he's going to cry any minute.
- Toni Marachek: Maybe you think I've been trying too hard to get acquainted.
- Sam Masterson: Maybe you have.
- Toni Marachek: Maybe you think that's wrong.
- Sam Masterson: Maybe it's too soon to tell.
- Toni Marachek: I wonder what you're thinking.
- Sam Masterson: I don't think you'll take up too much room in my Stanley Steamer.
- Toni Marachek: Maybe you're all right.
- Martha - As a Child: You don't own the whole world.
- Mrs. Ivers: Enough of it to make sure you'll always be brought back here.
- Detective #1: Good morning, Mr. Masterson.
- Sam Masterson: [realizing he's a detective before he's shown a badge] You don't have to show me who you are. I can tell by the smell.
- Detective #1: My nose isn't that big.
- Mrs. Ivers: I'm sorry, sorry that you ever left here.
- [puts her arms around him and goes in for a kiss]
- Mrs. Ivers: Sam, for old time's sake?