Mrs. Jekes: I just can't understand a man fiddling away his time just painting things. Of course he did shovel some snow to pay part of last month's rent. Mrs. Bunce: Painting things? Women? Women in the... Mrs. Jekes: Mrs. Bunce, we agreed that he was a gentleman and gentleman just don't paint "women in the... " Mrs. Bunce: [flustered] No, of course not. - Florence Bates (as Mrs. Jekes) in Portrait of Jennie (1948)

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Eben Adams: I want you, not dreams of you! - Joseph Cotten (as Eben Adams) in Portrait of Jennie (1948)

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Jennie Appleton: [singing] Where I come from nobody knows and where I am going everything goes. The wind blows, the sea flows, nobody knows. And where I am going, nobody knows. - Jennifer Jones (as Jennie Appleton) in Portrait of Jennie (1948)

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Jennie Appleton: Eben... I want always just to sit and watch you paint. Eben Adams: Now that I've found the perfect model, I'll paint her again and again. Jennie Appleton: No, I-I didn't mean that... I mean I want you to paint all the beautiful things in the world. Eben Adams: [smiles, holds her tight] You're the most beautiful thing in the world. - Joseph Cotten (as Eben Adams) in Portrait of Jennie (1948)

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Jennie Appleton: How beautiful the world is Eben! The sun goes down in in the same lovely sky. Just as it did yesterday, and will tomorrow. Eben Adams: When is tomorrow, Jenny? Jennie Appleton: Does it matter? It's always. This was tomorrow once. - Jennifer Jones (as Jennie Appleton) in Portrait of Jennie (1948)

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Jennie Appleton: I hate for it to stop, because when will we ever have it again? - Jennifer Jones (as Jennie Appleton) in Portrait of Jennie (1948)

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Jennie Appleton: I know we were meant to be together. The strands of our lives are woven together and neither the world nor time can tear them apart. - Jennifer Jones (as Jennie Appleton) in Portrait of Jennie (1948)

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Jennie Appleton: I wish that you would wait for me to grow up so that we could always be together. - Jennifer Jones (as Jennie Appleton) in Portrait of Jennie (1948)

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Jennie Appleton: There is no life, my darling, until you love and have been loved. And then there is no death. - Jennifer Jones (as Jennie Appleton) in Portrait of Jennie (1948)

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