Intolerable Cruelty * Quotes

Miles: "I assume you're a carnivore."
Marylin: "Oh, Mr. Massey. You have no idea."

Rex: "Have you sat before her before?"
Miles: "No. No, the judge sits first. Then we sit."
Rex: "Well, have you sat after her before?"
Wrigley: "Sat after her before? You mean, have we argued before her before?"
Miles: "The judge sits in judgment. The counsel argues before the judge."
Rex: "So, have you argued before her before?"
Wrigley: "Before her before, or before she sat before?"
Rex: "Before her before. I said, before her before."
Wrigley: "No, you said before she sat before."
Rex: "I did at first, but..."
Miles: "Look, don't argue."
Rex: "I'm not. I'm..."
Wrigley: "No, you don't argue. We argue."
Miles: "Counsel argues."
Wrigley: "You appear."
Miles: "The judge sits."
Wrigley: "Then you sit."
Miles: "Or you stand in contempt."
Wrigley: "And then we argue."
Miles: "The counsel argues."
Rex: "Which you've done before."
Miles: "Which we've done before."
Rex: "Ah."
Wrigley: "But not before her."

Freddy Bender: "Objection, Your Honor: strangling the witness."
Judge Marva Munson: "I'm going to allow it."

Wrigley: "Uh, I'll just have a, uhm, salad, please. Uhm, baby field greens."
Waitress Marge: "What did you call me?"
Wrigley: "Uh, no, I-I... I-I didn't call you anything."
Waitress Marge: "You want a salad?"
Wrigley: "Yeah. Do you... do you have a, uh, green salad?"
Waitress Marge: "What the fuck color would it be?"

[Miles kisses Marylin]
Marylin: "I could have you disbarred for that."
Miles: "It was worth it."
Marylin: "A romantic divorce attorney?"
Miles: "You fascinate me."

Miles: "Your husband had told me you were the most beautiful woman he'd ever met. I didn't expect the most beautiful woman I'd ever met."
Marylin: "'Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery, for where a heart is hard they make no battery'."
Miles: "'Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?'."
Marylin: "Now, you didn't ask me here to pick me up? You could be disbarred for that."
Miles: "Maybe I'm reckless."

Miles: "I guess, something inside of me died, when I realized that you'd hired a goon to kill me."
Marylin: "Wait a minute. You hired him to kill me."
Freddy Bender: "No. Both of you wait a minute. Nobody hired anyone to kill anyone."
Wrigley: "Hear, hear."
Freddy Bender: "Apparently, from what I can gather, a burglar broke into your house."
Wrigley: "Miles's house."
Freddy Bender: "Whatever. A burglar broke in intending to loot the place, uhm, repented, became despondent over his lifestyle and shot himself."