Elmer Gantry: [repeated] Love is the morning and the evening star.

- Burt Lancaster (as Elmer Gantry) in Elmer Gantry (1960)

Elmer Gantry: I have here in my pocket - and thank heaven you can't see them - lewd, dirty, obscene, and I'm ashamed to say this: French postcards. They were sold to me in front of your own innocent high school by a man with a black beard... a foreigner.

- Burt Lancaster (as Elmer Gantry) in Elmer Gantry (1960)

Elmer Gantry: I was accosted by three painted women. Your streets are made unsafe by shameless, diseased hussies, rapacious pick-pockets, and insidious opium-smokers.

- Burt Lancaster (as Elmer Gantry) in Elmer Gantry (1960)

Elmer Gantry: Sin, sin, sin! You're all sinners! You're all doomed to perdition!

- Burt Lancaster (as Elmer Gantry) in Elmer Gantry (1960)

George Babbitt: Besides, I'm for a free press, for free enterprise... and for whatever the hell the other freedoms are!

- Edward Andrews (as George F. Babbitt) in Elmer Gantry (1960)

Jim Lefferts: You look like a man who could use a drink.
Elmer Gantry: You know somethin', Jim? There oughta be a law against drinkin'.
Jim Lefferts: There is. Prohibition.
Elmer Gantry: That's against sellin', not drinkin'.
Jim Lefferts: Amen.

- Arthur Kennedy (as Jim Lefferts) in Elmer Gantry (1960)

Sister Sharon Falconer: But tonight is a thousand years away.

- Jean Simmons (as Sister Sharon Falconer) in Elmer Gantry (1960)

Lulu Bains: Oh, he gave me special instructions back of the pulpit Christmas Eve. He got to howlin' "Repent! Repent!" and I got to moanin' "Save me! Save me!" and the first thing I know he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps!

- Shirley Jones (as Lulu Bains) in Elmer Gantry (1960)