- George Hurstwood: You still have time, Carrie. Move on now. Find someone... to love. It's a great experience, Carrie.
- George Hurstwood: I've gambled on your loving me. If you don't, Carrie, you must get off
- [the train]
- George Hurstwood: now.... But, if you do... If you do love me...
- Julie Hurstwood: Will you give her up?
- George Hurstwood: I'm not like you, Julia. I don't make threats, and I don't make promises.
- Julie Hurstwood: Well, I make them. And I keep them.
- George Hurstwood: I've got to eat or I'll die.
- Unidentified Vagrant: Who are you talking to, me or God?
- George Hurstwood: Of course, this isn't generally known...
- Allen - Bondsman: Hmm?
- George Hurstwood: Is it?
- Allen - Bondsman: The theft? Oh, I guess there's a couple of fellows in Medicine Hat don't know about it. Any robbery over a thousand dollars, we automatically inform all our clients.
- Carrie Meeber: I see that you lied to me. And I see why. You thought me dirty and cheap. But I'm not.
- Charles Drouet: Were you visiting Colombia City?
- Carrie Meeber: I live there.
- Charles Drouet: Really - you look like you just stepped off Michigan Avenue!
- Carrie Meeber: I can do better that that - I went through school.
- Carrie Meeber: And looking like you do can't do any harm.
- Factory Foreman: Keep it moving will you.
- Carrie Meeber: The light's so bad I can't see my fingers.
- Factory Foreman: You want to give up your machine?
- George Hurstwood: Mr Fitzgerald has my personal note. I regard it as a loan.
- Allen - Bondsman: We regard it as grand larceny.
- Carrie Meeber: Oh Minnie I hate my job. I could be there a hundred years and never have anything to show for it.
- Carrie Meeber: It was a loan.
- Carrie's Sister Minnie: From a man. Sven won't take that kind of money. And if you do, you'll regret it all your life.
- George Hurstwood: I know his father, Slim Connell.
- Julie Hurstwood: You know him as a waiter knows him. They're one of the best families in Chicago and he's interested in Jessica.
- George Hurstwood: Jessica is sixteen.
- Julie Hurstwood: Jessica has got to meet the right people. You come in here bowing and scraping, why can't you show a little dignity?
- George Hurstwood: I offered the little pipsqeak a drink, what's so undignified about that?
- Julie Hurstwood: Must you always remind everyone you're in the liquor business. You're not comfortable without a shaker or a bottle in your hand are you?
- George Hurstwood: Do you love me very much?
- Carrie Meeber: Of course. What are you worried about?
- George Hurstwood: About that. A lot depends on it now.