- Dr. Alex Brulov: Women make the best psychoanalysts until they fall in love. After that they make the best patients.
- Dr. Alex Brulov: My dear girl, you can not keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.
- John Ballantyne: That Freud stuff's a bunch of hooey.
- Dr. Alex Brulov: Oh, you are a fine one to talk! You have a guilt complex and amnesia and you don't know if you are coming or going from somewhere, but Freud is hooey! *This* you know! Hmph! Wiseguy.
- Dr. Alex Brulov: What is there for you to see? We both know that the mind of a woman in love is operating on the lowest level of the intellect!
- Constance Petersen: I think the greatest harm done the human race has been done by the poets.
- Anthony Edwardes: Oh, poets are dull boys, most of them, but not especially fiendish.
- Constance Petersen: They keep filling people's heads with delusions about love... writing about it as if it were a symphony orchestra or a flight of angels.
- Anthony Edwardes: Which is isn't, eh?
- Constance Petersen: Of course not. People fall in love, as they put it, because they respond to a certain hair coloring or vocal tones or mannerisms that remind them of their parents.
- Anthony Edwardes: Or... or... sometimes for no reason at all.
- Constance Petersen: That's not the point. The point is that people read about love as one thing and experience it as another. Well, they expect kisses to be like lyrical poems and embraces to be like Shakespearean dramas.
- Anthony Edwardes: And when they find out differently, then they get sick and have to be analyzed, eh?
- Constance Petersen: Yes, very often.
- Anthony Edwardes: Professor, you're suffering from "mogo on the gogo."
- Constance Petersen: I beg your pardon!
- [last lines]
- Dr. Alex Brulov: And remember what I say: any husband of Constance is a husband of mine, so to speak.
- John Ballantyne: [laughing] Alright! Goodbye. Good luck!
- Dr. Alex Brulov: Goodbye!
- John Ballantyne: Now, this honeymoon is complicated enough without your dragging medical ethics into it.
- Dr. Alex Brulov: We are speaking of a schizophrenic and not a Valentine.
- Constance Petersen: We are speaking of a man.
- Dr. Alex Brulov: And how do you know what his real character is?
- Constance Petersen: I know. I know.
- Dr. Alex Brulov: She knows. This is the way science goes backward. Who told you what he is? Freud?, or a crystal ball?
- Constance Petersen: All analysts have to be psychoanalyzed by other analysts before they start practicing.
- John Ballantyne: Ahhh, that's to make sure that they're not too crazy.
- Dr. Alex Brulov: You grant me I know more than you, but on the other hand, you know more than me. Women's talk. Bah!
- Dr. Alex Brulov: Oh, so you are married? There's nothing so nice as a new marriage. No psychosis yet. No aggressions, no guilt complexes. Congratulations!
- Constance Petersen: Are you making love to me?
- Dr. Fleurot: I will in a moment. I'm just clearing the ground first.
- [after John has finally admitted that Dr. Edwardes fell off a cliff in a skiing accident and that he did not murder him]
- Constance Petersen: Well, thank goodness it's all cleared up.
- Det. Lt. Cooley: Well, not quite, Dr. Petersen. I'm afraid a bullet was found in the body.
- Dr. Murchison: [with his revolver pointed at Constance] You're an excellent analyst, Dr. Peterson, but a rather stupid woman.
- Dr. Fleurot: It's rather like embracing a textbook.
- Constance Petersen: But why do you do it, then?
- Dr. Fleurot: Because you're not a textbook.
- Constance Petersen: I'm here as your doctor only. It has nothing to do with love.
- [John kisses Constance and they embrace each other tightly]
- Constance Petersen: Nothing at all. Nothing at all...
- Anthony Edwardes: I know why you came in.
- Dr. Constance Petersen: [entranced] ... Why?
- Anthony Edwardes: Because something has happened to us.
- Dr. Constance Petersen: But it doesn't happen like that - in a day.
- Anthony Edwardes: It happens in a moment sometimes... I felt it this afternoon... It's like lightning striking... It strikes rarely.
- Anthony Edwardes: [He walks towards her; they kiss]
- [first lines]
- Nurse: [offscreen] Miss Carmichael, please. Dr. Petersen is ready for you.