Martin Delwyn 'Marty' Ainsley: [On the radio] The writing is on the wall. So few of us seem able to read it.

- Keenan Wynn (as Martin Delwyn 'Marty' Ainsley) in B.F.'s Daughter (1948)

Burton F. 'B.F.' Fulton: [to Polly] It's just that I want you to know that lots of marriages... well, aren't the way they say in books... but still they're worth fighting for.

- Charles Coburn (as Burton F. 'B.F.' Fulton) in B.F.'s Daughter (1948)

Burton F. 'B.F.' Fulton: My money seems to have done you a lot of harm. I didn't mean it that way. I earned it for you... but for your happiness.
Pauline 'Polly' Fulton Brett: Oh, please, Darling.
Burton F. 'B.F.' Fulton: Polly, times are changing. I haven't wanted them too. A lot of people think that everything should be different, and they're quite honest about ut, but I can't agree with them. I've been a builder, and the world needs builders - planners too, but builders, always builders.

- Charles Coburn (as Burton F. 'B.F.' Fulton) in B.F.'s Daughter (1948)

Thomas W. 'Tom' Brett: It's always been my experience that spring is sort of flat-chested.

- Van Heflin (as Thomas W. 'Tom' Brett) in B.F.'s Daughter (1948)