Georges Iscovescu: [having just let Anita know that he prefers the company of Emmy] You've got enough money to get you back to New York. I'll find you there when I'm ready.
Anita Dixon: Thanks! You just stand right in the middle of Times Square ... and whistle!

- Paulette Goddard (as Anita Dixon) in Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

Georges Iscovescu: [to Emmy] You needn't be afraid, Miss Brown. Not a bit. You see, we are like ... two trains, halted for a moment at the same station. But we're going in different directions. We can't change our course, any more than we can hold back the dawn.

- Charles Boyer (as Georges Iscovescu) in Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

Georges Iscovescu: Your husband?
Anita Dixon: No. No, Shaughnessy was a jockey from Caliente. Five foot three. Once over the border, I went to a judge. I said, a woman wants a man, not a radiator cap! Divorce granted, fifty dollars.

- Paulette Goddard (as Anita Dixon) in Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

Emmy Brown: [to Anita] You see, I come from a small town. We don't have any of those fine hotels. We eat at the drugstore... But we leave a tip just the same.

- Olivia de Havilland (as Emmy Brown) in Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

Inspector Hammock: I'll be the doggonedest dog to end all doggoned dogs! Maybe I'm just dumb.

- Walter Abel (as Inspector Hammock) in Hold Back the Dawn (1941)

Anita Dixon: All those years with all the others, I've shut my eyes and thought of you.

- Paulette Goddard (as Anita Dixon) in Hold Back the Dawn (1941)