- Will Parker: Now that I got that fifty dollars, you name the date.
- Ado Annie: August fifteenth.
- Will Parker: Why August fifteenth?
- Ado Annie: Because that was the first day I'se kissed!
- Will Parker: Oh was it? I didn't remember that!
- Ado Annie: You wasn't there.
- Ali Hakim: I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.
- Will Parker: I don't know what to make of you! You're too purty to be a skunk! Too thin to be a snake! To little to be a man, and too big to be a mouse! I reckon you're a rat!
- Ali Hakim: That's logical.
- Ado Annie: He called me his Persian kitten!
- Mr. Carnes: what'd you call her that for?
- Ali Hakim: Ohh - I don't remember...
- Ado Annie: I do! He said I's like a Persian kitten cause they is the cats with the soft round tails!
- Mr. Carnes: [cocking his gun] That's enough. In this country that better be a proposal of marriage.
- Ali Hakim: It's a wonderful thing to be married. I got a brother in Persia got six wives.
- Ado Annie: Six wives all at once?
- Will Parker: Why, sure. That's the way they do in them countries.
- Ali Hakim: Not always. I got a brother in Persia only got one wife. He's a bachelor.
- Aunt Eller: [singing] I'd like to say a word for the cowboys.
- Mr. Carnes: Oh, you would, would you?
- Aunt Eller: The road he treads is difficult and stony. He rides for days on end with just a pony for a friend...
- Ado Annie: I sure am feelin' sorry for the pony!
- Ali Hakim: [trying to get out of marrying Ado Annie] You'd hardly ever see your daughter no more!
- Mr. Carnes: That'd be all right. Just take care of her, son.
- [first lines]
- Curly: [singing] There's a bright golden haze on the meadow, There's a bright golden haze on the meadow. The corn is as high as a elephant's eye, And it looks like it's climbin' clear up to the sky. Oh, what a beautiful mornin', Oh, what a beautiful day! I got a beautiful feelin' Everything's goin' my way.
- Jud Fry: [to Laurey] I ain't good enough for you, am I? I'm a hired hand. I got dirt on my hands. Pig slop. I ain't fit to touch you, am I. You're better. Oh, you're so much better, Miss Laurey Williams! Well we'll see how much better you are, and then you won't be so free and easy and highfalutin' with your airs! You such a *fine* lady!
- Ali Hakim: Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing?
- Will Parker: I'm gonna keep Ado Annie from killin' your wife.
- Ali Hakim: Mind your own business.
- Ali Hakim: Oh, I did not say that.
- Ado Annie: Oh, yes, you did.
- Ali Hakim: No, I did not.
- Mr. Carnes: Are you trying to make my daughter out to be a liar?
- Ali Hakim: Oh, no, no, no, no. I was only trying to make clear to you what a liar I am, if she is telling the truth.
- Ado Annie: Ali, Laurey and me been having an argument.
- Ali Hakim: About what, baby?
- Ado Annie: About what you meant when you said that about driving with me to the end of the world.
- Ali Hakim: Well, I didn't really mean to the end of the world.
- Ado Annie: Well, then how far did you want to go?
- Ali Hakim: About as far as say, uh, Claremore.
- Ado Annie: What's at Claremore?
- Ali Hakim: The hotel. In front is a veranda, inside is the lobby, and upstairs, baby, might be paradise.
- Ado Annie: I thought they's just bedrooms.
- Ali Hakim: For you and me, baby, paradise.
- Curly: In this country, there's just two things you can do if you're a man. You can live outdoors is one, and you can live in a hole is the other.
- Laurey: So that's that old Cummings gal I heared so much talk of.
- Curly: You seen her before, ain't you?
- Laurey: Yeah, but not since she got so old. Never did see anybody get so peaked-lookin' in such a short time.
- Aunt Eller: Yeah. Says she's eighteen. Ha! Bet she's nineteen.
- Will Parker: You ain't gonna think of that old peddler-man anymore, are ya?
- Ado Annie: Of course not. I never think of no one unless'n he's with me.
- Will Parker: Then I'll never leave your side.
- Ado Annie: Well, even if you never go away, can't you once't in awhile give me one of them Persian good-byes?
- Will Parker: Persian good-bye? Why, that ain't nothin' compared to Oklahoma hello.
- Ado Annie: Hello, Will!
- Ali Hakim: Look, Annie, there is a man who loves you like nothing never loved nobody. That's the man for you, Will Parker.
- Ado Annie: Oh, yeah. Well, I like Will a lot.
- Ali Hakim: Oh, he's a fine fellow. He's strong like an ox. He's young, handsome.
- Ado Annie: Oh, I love him, all right, I guess.
- Ali Hakim: Of course you do. And you love those clear blue eyes of his, and the way his mouth wrinklies up when he smiles.
- Ado Annie: Do you love him too?
- Ali Hakim: I love him because he will make my Ado Annie happy.
- Aunt Eller: And you'll feel funny when I tell your wife you're carrying on with another woman.
- Marshal: I ain't carrying on with no one!
- Aunt Eller: Maybe not, but you'll sure feel funny when I tell your wife you are.
- Curly: [singing] He's all laid out to rest, with his hands across'd his chest. His fingernails have never been so clean.
- Laurey: [singing] Don't sigh and gaze at me. Your sighs are so like mine. Your eyes mustn't glow like mine. People will say we're in love.
- Curly: [singing] The daisies in the dell will give out a different smell, because poor Jud is underneath the ground.
- Curly: [singing] Just keep a slice of all the advice you give so free. Don't praise my charm too much. Don't look so vain with me. Don't stand in the rain with me. People will say we're in love.
- Aunt Eller: [singing] I don't say I'm no better than anybody else. But I'll be danged if I ain't just as good.
- Will Parker: [singing] They went and built a skyscraper seven stories high. 'Bout as high as a buildin' oughta grow.
- Curly: [singing] Don't dance all night with me, till the stars fade from above. They'll see it's all right with me. People will say we're in love.
- Laurey: [singing] Why do they think up stories that link my name with yours?
- Curly: [singing] Why do the neighbors gossip all day behind their doors?
- Laurey: [singing] I know a way to prove what they say is quite untrue. Here is the gist, a practical list of don'ts for you. Don't throw bouquets at me. Don't please my folks too much. Don't laugh at my jokes too much. People will say we're in love.
- Curly: [singing] Don't take my arm too much. Don't keep your hand in mine. Your hand feels so grand in mine. People will say we're in love.
- Will Parker: [singing] Everything's up to date in Kansas City. They've gone about as fur as they can go.
- Curly: He loved the birds of the forests and the beasts of the field. He loved the mice and the vermin in the barn. And he treated the rats like equals, which was right.
- Curly: [singing] He looks like he's asleep. It's a shame that he won't keep. But it's summer and we're runnin' out of ice.
- Skidmore: [singing] The farmer and the cowman should be friends. One man likes to push a plow. The other likes to chase a cow. But that's no reason why they can't be friends.
- Aunt Eller: [singing] The farmer should be sociable with the cowboy. If he rides by and asks for food and water, don't treat him like a louse. Make him welcome in your house.
- Mr. Carnes: [singing] But be sure that you lock up your wife and daughter.
- Curly: [singing] Jud was the most misunderstood man in this territory. People used to think he was a mean, ugly fella, and call him a dirty skunk and ornery pig stealer. But the folks that really knowed him, knowed that beneath them two dirty shirts he always wore, there beat a heart as big as all outdoors.
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