You can drop that "Miss Whitcomb."
Sam Craig
Spencer Tracy · 8 quotes
Tess Harding
Katharine Hepburn · 6 quotes
Ellen Whitcomb
Fay Bainter · 2 quotes
Phil Whittaker
Roscoe Karns · 2 quotes
Most scenes together: Sam Craig & Tess Harding (6)
Woman of the Year quotes
[Sam and Tess are both mildly drunk. Tess's head is resting on Sam]
There's something I have to get off my chest...
You do?
Positive.
Even when you're brilliant.
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?
I think it's a wonderful name.
No, they're all attending their grandmother's funeral.
No, I cover the game, he just kicks it around in his column.
We've got only one man at Vichy...
Vichy, are they still in the league?
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?
No.
Why not?
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.
Well, I'm not Seabiscuit.
Sam, why can't we sit down like adults and patch this thing up?
I'm afraid that might become a habit. Then we'd wind up with a patchwork quilt for a marriage.
[on his and Tess's very short wedding ceremony]
No one will ever believe we were married sober.
Success is no fun unless you share it with someone.
Women should be kept illiterate and clean, like canaries.