“Malone: Me father died of starvation in Ireland in the black 47. Maybe you've heard of it.Violet: The Famine?Malone: No, the starvation. When a country is full o food, and exporting it, there can be no famine.”

“O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?”

“Tanner: My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character in leads you to think about your own confounded principles when you should be thinking about other people's necessities.”

“I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.”

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.”

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”