Quotes from Adam's Rib (1949)

23 quotes
Katharine Hepburn
Amanda Bonner: No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex.
- Katharine Hepburn (as Amanda Bonner) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Katharine Hepburn
Amanda Bonner: Nobody died in the evening paper, isn't that nice?
- Katharine Hepburn (as Amanda Bonner) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Spencer Tracy
Amanda Bonner: What I said was true, there's no difference between the sexes. Men, women, the same.
Adam Bonner: They are?
Amanda Bonner: Well, maybe there is a difference, but it's a little difference.
Adam Bonner: Well, you know as the French say...
Amanda Bonner: What do they say?
Adam Bonner: Vive la difference!
Amanda Bonner: Which means?
Adam Bonner: Which means hurrah for that little difference.
- Spencer Tracy (as Adam Bonner) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Jean Hagen
Beryl Caighn: And then I heard a noise.
Adam Bonner: What kind of noise?
Beryl Caighn: Like a sound.
- Jean Hagen (as Beryl Caighn) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Jean Hagen
Beryl Caighn: She tried to shoot me.
Adam Bonner: How do you know that?
Beryl Caighn: Because she did.
- Jean Hagen (as Beryl Caighn) in Adam's Rib (1949)

David Wayne
Kip Lurie: [to Adam] What have you been eating, raspberry jam or Amanda's face?
- David Wayne (as Kip Lurie) in Adam's Rib (1949)

David Wayne
Kip Lurie: Amanda, my love, why do you stay married to a legal beagle with ten thumbs?
- David Wayne (as Kip Lurie) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Spencer Tracy
Kip Lurie: Did I hear someone say "sing it again"?
Adam Bonner: No!
- Spencer Tracy (as Adam Bonner) in Adam's Rib (1949)

David Wayne
Kip Lurie: Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called in-breeding; from this comes idiot children... and other lawyers.
- David Wayne (as Kip Lurie) in Adam's Rib (1949)

David Wayne
Kip Lurie: Well, good luck tomorrow, Amanda. I'm on your side, I guess you know that. You've got me so convinced, I may even go out and become a woman. Goodnight.
[leaves]
Adam Bonner: And he wouldn't have far to go, either.
Amanda Bonner: Shh!
Adam Bonner: What's a matter?
Kip Lurie: [steps back into the kitchen and whispers] He can hear you.
- David Wayne (as Kip Lurie) in Adam's Rib (1949)

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