Austin Sloper: You have found a tongue at last, Catherine. 'Tis only to say such terrible things to me.
Catherine Sloper: Yes. This is a field where you will not compare me to my mother.

- Olivia de Havilland (as Catherine Sloper) in The Heiress (1949)

Catherine Sloper: Bolt the door, Maria!

- Olivia de Havilland (as Catherine Sloper) in The Heiress (1949)

Catherine Sloper: Don't be kind to me, father. It doesn't become you.

- Olivia de Havilland (as Catherine Sloper) in The Heiress (1949)

Catherine Sloper: Father won't abuse you, he doesn't know you well enough.

- Olivia de Havilland (as Catherine Sloper) in The Heiress (1949)

Catherine Sloper: He's grown greedier over the years. Before he only wanted my money; now he wants my love as well. Well, he came to the wrong house - and he came twice. I shall see that he does not come a third time.

- Olivia de Havilland (as Catherine Sloper) in The Heiress (1949)

Aunt Penniman: Can you be so cruel?
Catherine Sloper: Yes, I can be very cruel. I have been taught by masters.

- Olivia de Havilland (as Catherine Sloper) in The Heiress (1949)

Catherine Sloper: He must come, he must take me away, he must love me, he must. Morris will love me - for all those who didn't.

- Olivia de Havilland (as Catherine Sloper) in The Heiress (1949)

Morris Townsend: Catherine! Catherine! Catherine!

- Montgomery Clift (as Morris Townsend) in The Heiress (1949)