Quotes about Battle of the Sexes

Beverly Boyer: What ever happened to my rights as a woman?
Dr. Gerald Boyer: I'll tell you what happened to them. They grew and grew until they suffocated my rights as a man. Whoever said all men are created equal didn't anticipate a woman making $100,000 a year and spenidng it on swimming pools!

- James Garner (as Dr. Gerald Boyer) in The Thrill of It All (1963)

Scarlett: Sir, you are no gentleman.
Rhett Butler: And you, Miss, are no lady. Don't think I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any appeal for me.

- Clark Gable (as Rhett Butler) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Abbie Irving: Is there anything else you'd like to know Mr. Hatton?
Wade Hatton: Yes. What do the Doctor and Mrs. Irving think about it?
Abbie Irving: Well, they made the same stupid obections that you're making mentally now -- but when I decide on a thing i usually manage to carry it through.
Wade Hatton: Yes, I've noticed that.

- Errol Flynn (as Wade Hatton) in Dodge City (1939)

Wade Hatton: Of course you realize that people in general are inclined to think that a newspaper office is an odd place for a charming young lady like you to be working, don't you?
Abbie Irving: And are you the delegation sent to tell me that?
Wade Hatton: No, no, no... I just stop trouble around here. I don't start it!

- Errol Flynn (as Wade Hatton) in Dodge City (1939)

[after Ellen stops a car by showing her leg]
Peter Warne: Why didn't you take off all your clothes? You could have stopped forty cars.
Ellie Andrews: Well, ooo, I'll remember that when we need forty cars.

- Claudette Colbert (as Ellie) in It Happened One Night (1934)

Ellie Andrews: I'll stop a car, and I won't use my thumb!
Peter Warne: What're you gonna do?
Ellie Andrews: It's a system all my own.

- Claudette Colbert (as Ellie) in It Happened One Night (1934)

Ellie Andrews: Aren't you gonna congratulate me?
Peter Warne: What for?
Ellie Andrews: Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.

- Claudette Colbert (as Ellie) in It Happened One Night (1934)

[Peter is carrying Ellie across the creek slung over his shoulder]
Ellie Andrews: You know this is the first time in years I've ridden piggy-back.
Peter Warne: This isn't piggy-back.
Ellie Andrews: Course it is.
Peter Warne: You're crazy.
Ellie Andrews: I remember distinctly my father taking me for a piggy-back ride.
Peter Warne: And he carried you like this, I suppose?
Ellie Andrews: Yes.
Peter Warne: Your father didn't know beans about piggy-back riding.
Ellie Andrews: My uncle, mother's brother, has four children and I've seen them ride piggy-back.
Peter Warne: I'll bet there isn't a good piggy-back rider in your whole family. I never knew a rich man yet who could piggy-back ride.
Ellie Andrews: You're prejudiced.
Peter Warne: You show me a good piggy-backer and I'll show you a real human. Now you take Abraham Lincoln for instance. A natural born piggy-backer. Where do you get all of that stuffed-shirt family of yours?
Ellie Andrews: My father was a great piggy-backer.
Peter Warne: Here, hold this.
[Peter hands to Ellie the case he was carrying and slaps her behind for that remark]

- Clark Gable (as Peter Warne) in It Happened One Night (1934)

Peter Warne: Just keep your eye on that thumb.
[sticks out his thumb to hitch a ride, the car wizzes past]
Ellie Andrews: Still got my eye on the thumb.

- Claudette Colbert (as Ellie) in It Happened One Night (1934)

Alicia: You can add Sebastian's name to my list of playmates.

- Ingrid Bergman (as Alicia Huberman) in Notorious (1946)