Rosemary Sidney: [Giddily to her schoolteacher friends just prior to eloping] So long, girls! You know what you can tell the principal for me!

- Rosalind Russell (as Rosemary Sidney) in Picnic (1955)

Rosemary Sidney: Look at that sunset, Howard!
Howard Bevans: A sunset's a beautiful thing, all right.
Rosemary Sidney: It's like the daytime didn't want to end, isn't it? It's like the daytime was gonna put up a big scrap, set the world on fire to keep the night from creeping on.

- Rosalind Russell (as Rosemary Sidney) in Picnic (1955)

Hal Carter: I gotta get somewhere in this world. I just gotta.

- William Holden (as Hal Carter) in Picnic (1955)

Hal Carter: What's the use, Baby? I'm a bum. She saw through me like an x-ray machine. There's no place in the world for a guy like me.

- William Holden (as Hal Carter) in Picnic (1955)

Flo Owens: Where is everybody?
Helen Potts: At a picnic everybody disappears. Don't you remember, Flo?

- Verna Felton (as Helen Potts) in Picnic (1955)

Millie Owens: The ones we love are always pretty, but the ones who are pretty to begin with... everyone loves them.

- Susan Strasberg (as Millie Owens) in Picnic (1955)

Howard Bevans: [to Rosemary] If a woman's going to ask me to marry her, the least she could do is say "Please."

- Arthur O'Connell (as Howard Bevans) in Picnic (1955)

Howard Bevans: You went for that Owens girl, didn't you?

- Arthur O'Connell (as Howard Bevans) in Picnic (1955)