Isabel Lorrison: [Entering her apartment] I'll get you a drink.
Brandon Bourne: I can say what I have to without one>
Isabel Lorrison: But I'm not sure I can listen without one.

- Ava Gardner (as Isabel Lorrison) in East Side, West Side (1949)

Rosa Senta: [to Brandon] If I were your wife, I'd cut your heart out!

- Cyd Charisse (as Rosa Senta) in East Side, West Side (1949)

Lt. Jacobi: [to Brandon] If you lie down with dogs, Brandon, you gt up with fleas.

- William Conrad (as Lt. Jacobi) in East Side, West Side (1949)

Nora Kernan: Jessie looks wonderful tonight.
Brandon Bourne: She has you to thank for her looks, darling.
Nora Kernan: And you! When a woman gets more beautiful after she's married, it means her man is making her very happy or verry unhappy.

- Gale Sondergaard (as Nora Kernan) in East Side, West Side (1949)

Brandon Bourne: [Desparately] Jess, can't you understand what this is for me. I'm like a drunk who knows liquor will wreck him. He hates it. He hides from it. He... he tries!
Jessie Bourne: What are you asking for? Permission?

- Barbara Stanwyck (as Jessie Bourne) in East Side, West Side (1949)

Brandon Bourne: Whatever it was, it's over!
[He walks away and she follows]
Isabel Lorrison: Maybe it wasn;t love. Maybe it was only chemistry or the right combination or a miracle, but most people drag through their whole lives without finding it. We both know that, don't we,Bran?

- Ava Gardner (as Isabel Lorrison) in East Side, West Side (1949)

Brandon Bourne: You're spoiling what was a beautiful memory, Isobel. I don't remember you as being this cheap.
Isabel Lorrison: [Seductively] I always was... That's what you like.

- Ava Gardner (as Isabel Lorrison) in East Side, West Side (1949)