Katharine Hepburn credited as playing...
Tess Harding
- Tess Harding: [In the stands at the ballpark, observing the large crowd in attendance] Are all these people unemployed?
- Sam Craig: No, they're all attending their grandmother's funeral.
- Sam Craig: [Sam and Tess are both mildly drunk. Tess's head is resting on Sam] There's something I have to get off my chest...
- Tess Harding: [starts to get up] I'm too heavy...
- Sam Craig: [smiles] No. I love you.
- Tess Harding: You do?
- Sam Craig: Positive.
- Tess Harding: [sighs] That's nice. Even when I'm sober?
- Sam Craig: Even when you're brilliant.
- Sam Craig: I don't want to be married to Tess Harding any more than I want you to be just Mrs Sam Craig. Why can't you be Tess Harding Craig?
- Tess Harding: I think it's a wonderful name.
- Tess Harding: [attending a baseball game] You mean our paper sends two people to cover the game?
- Phil Whittaker: No, I cover the game, he just kicks it around in his column.
- Tess Harding: We've got only one man at Vichy...
- Sam Craig: Vichy, are they still in the league?
- Tess Harding: Sam, why can't we sit down like adults and patch this thing up?
- Sam Craig: I'm afraid that might become a habit. Then we'd wind up with a patchwork quilt for a marriage.
- Tess Harding: I'm going to be you wife. You don't think that I can do the little ordinary things that any idiot can do, do you?
- Sam Craig: No.
- Tess Harding: Why not?
- Sam Craig: Because you're incapable of doing them, that's why. You can't expect Seabiscuit to stop in the middle of the stretch, drink a glass of water, and count to seven at the same time, you know. That takes training.
- Tess Harding: Well, I'm not Seabiscuit.