- Mr. Slaney: [He suddenly realizes that Catherine is coming on to him, and he nervously tries to keep talking about how Catherine's grandmother taught her to make coffee] Well, Grandma knew. I think that most grandmas knew. The old ways are the old ways - the best ways, as far as I'm concerned. She knew. God bless Grandma. Yes, sir. Give me the old ways every time. I mean, people today with their speed and their instants and their jiffies and their speedies - it's getting crazy, with your shake-a-bakes and your bake-a-shakes and your minute mix and your quickie mix and your ready mix and your here a mix, there a mix, everywhere a mix mix...
- Catherine Curtis: [Surprised at his sudden monologue] What are you talking about, Mr. Slaney?
- Mr. Slaney: Oh, I don't know. Just poke around in there, and you'll find I've said something.
- Catherine Curtis: [talking to herself, imitating her ex-husband] Catherine, we'll move to Connecticut. You'll love the country.
- [as herself]
- Catherine Curtis: Well, I hated the country, Ben. I hated the crabgrass. I hated the mulch. I hated the compost heap. And I hated you, Bennett Curtis. Damn you!
- Catherine Curtis: My husband and I never raised our voices to each other in over 23 years.
- Mr. Slaney: Honest to God? How could you live like that? Being married all those years there's bound to be some aggravation that stores up in side of you. I mean, if you don't let it out, you could get herpes.
- Catherine Curtis: Or a divorce.
- Peter: It was the worst single play I have ever seen in my life but I loved it because an English actor can read graffiti off a wall and make it sound like Shakespeare.
- Catherine Curtis: I agree.
- Peter: [affecting a broad English accent] For a rollicking good time, call Kinky Kitty; Stratford two, double seven, naught naught.
- Catherine Curtis: You can have any young chick in the world. Why me?
- Peter: In the ten years since my divorce, you're the first woman I've gone out with who knows who John Garfield is.
- Catherine Curtis: Oh, for God's sake!
- Peter: Hey, I'm serious. Do you know what it's like to go out with a girl who thinks that Joe DiMaggio is a veal dish?
- Catherine Curtis: [to Peter] Stop wallowing in the past: Garfield, DiMaggio, Gable, Catherine Curtis. You're a nostalgia freak, that's what you are. I just don't want to be added to your collection of antiques.