Adam Bonner: [takes a bite out of his fake gun] Licorice. If there's anything I'm a sucker for, it's licorice.

- Spencer Tracy (as Adam Bonner) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Adam Bonner: First of all, I should like to say that I think the arguments advanced by the counsel for the defense were sound... MERE sound!

- Spencer Tracy (as Adam Bonner) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Adam Bonner: No matter what you think you think, you think the same as I think.

- Spencer Tracy (as Adam Bonner) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Adam Bonner: What are ya? Sore about a little slap?
Amanda Bonner: No.
Adam Bonner: Well, what then?
Amanda Bonner: [outraged] You meant that, didn't you? You really meant that.
Adam Bonner: Why, no, I...
Amanda Bonner: Yes, you did. I can tell. I know your type. I know a slap from a slug.
Adam Bonner: Well, OK, OK.
Amanda Bonner: I'm not so sure it is. I'm not so sure I care to expose myself to typical instinctive masculine brutality.
Adam Bonner: Oh come now.
Amanda Bonner: And it felt not only as though you meant it, but as though you felt you had a right to. I can tell.
Adam Bonner: What've you got back there? Radar equipment?

- Spencer Tracy (as Adam Bonner) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Warren Francis Attinger: [to Adam Bonner] Listen, you don't get a split lip from imagination!

- Tom Ewell (as Warren Attinger) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Amanda Bonner: [addressing the court] For years, women have been ridiculed, pampered, chucked under the chin. I ask you, on behalf of us all, be fair to the fair sex.
Adam Bonner: We'll be here a year.

- Spencer Tracy (as Adam Bonner) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Amanda Bonner: And after you shot your husband... how did you feel?
Doris Attinger: Hungry!

- Judy Holliday (as Doris Attinger) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Amanda Bonner: And when did you stop loving your wife? Tell the truth.
Warren Francis Attinger: At least
[shrugs]
Warren Francis Attinger: 3 years.
Amanda Bonner: Why? Tell the truth.
Warren Francis Attinger: She started getting too fat.
Amanda Bonner: Did you tell her about that?
Warren Francis Attinger: Yes.
Amanda Bonner: What happened?
Warren Francis Attinger: She got fatter.

- Tom Ewell (as Warren Attinger) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Amanda Bonner: Let's all be manly!

- Katharine Hepburn (as Amanda Bonner) in Adam's Rib (1949)

Amanda Bonner: Mr. Attinger had never touched you before this time?
Beryl Caighn: Sure
Amanda Bonner: Ahh!
Beryl Caighn: We used to shake hands quite a lot.
Amanda Bonner: I see. Did you enjoy it?

- Katharine Hepburn (as Amanda Bonner) in Adam's Rib (1949)