Tommy Albright: [miserable] Why do you have to *lose* something, to find out what it *really* means?

- Gene Kelly (as Tommy Albright) in Brigadoon (1954)

Tommy Albright: Let me ask you something... suppose someone in Brigadoon got fed up and wanted to leave? What then?
Mr. Lundie: Och, he canna leave!
Jeff Douglas: You mean *I've* got to stay here now?

- Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon (1954)

Tommy Albright: Look... I'm not saying I believe all this, but just for argument's sake... suppose... suppose a stranger like... well, like... like me... came to Brigadoon and wanted to stay. Could he?
Mr. Lundie: [gives him a long look, then smiles] Aye, he could. Mr. Forsythe provided for that.
Jeff Douglas: He didn't miss a trick, did he?
Mr. Lundie: [laughing] No, lad, he didna! No, a stranger could stay if he loved someone here... not Brigadoon itself, mind, but someone *in* Brigadoon... enough to be willing to give up everything to stay near that person... which is only right because after all, lad... if you love someone deeply enough, anything is possible.

- Barry Jones (as Mr. Lundie) in Brigadoon (1954)

Jeff Douglas: ...There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiancee's best friend. He knows all the secrets she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to find out.

- Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon (1954)

Jeff Douglas: Can you think of one good reason why I, a strange man, should be interested in proposing to you, a mighty strange woman and at this hour of the day?
Meg Brockie: Because you're a lad and I'm a lass!
Jeff Douglas: Well, with that philosophy you must have had a provocative career!

- Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon (1954)

Jeff Douglas: If there's *anything* I hate... it's *you*!

- Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon (1954)

Jeff Douglas: If they want to disregard two hundred years of human bing-bang, that's their privilege.

- Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon (1954)

Jeff Douglas: Well, most of my friends who have inferiority complexes are absolutely right. They're *not* as good as everybody else!

- Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon (1954)

Jeff Douglas: You're confused, aren't you boy? If you believed as much as you *thought* you believed, you *wouldn't* be confused.

- Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon (1954)

Meg Brockie: I'm highly attracted to you. Why, when I look at you I feel wee tadpoles jumping in my spine.
Jeff Douglas: That's about as repulsive an idea as I've heard in years!

- Van Johnson (as Jeff Douglas) in Brigadoon (1954)