“Wouldn’t you rather play chess, Ma’am?….It’s less destructive of clothes.”

“Never sleep with a lady only once, especially in the case of an older lady.-‘Rhett ”

“If you neglected to warn Djetth beforehand that you were going to shoot him down, Your Highness, he may consider you in breach of contract…– Rhett”

“What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason?” he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control.”For one thing, Djetth, he wasn’t trying to kill me!”(“Marsh”, heroine of Insufficient Mating Material)”

“Roarke: You’d enjoy flying more if you’d learn the controls.Eve: I’d rather pretend I’m on the ground.Roarke: And how many vehicles have you wrecked, had blown up, or destroyed in the last, oh, two years?Eve: Think about that, then imagine it happening when I’m at the wheel at thirty thousand feet.Roarke: Good point. I’ll do the flying.”

“Never ask a question if you don’t know the answer.— Rhett”

“She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.”

“Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River.Eve: I think it’d be embarrassing to be dead in the Hoochie-Coochie River.Roarke: ChattahoocheeEve: What’s the difference?Roarke: Quite a bit, I’d think.”

“Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy?Roarke: You’d be jumpy, too, if I asked you things that make you feel the hot breath of hell at your back.Eve: You’re not going to hell.Roarke: Oh, and have you got some inside intel on that?Eve: You married a cop…you married me. I’m your goddamn salvation.”

“Listen carefully. I’d crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it. ”

“Rhett: If you’ve made up your mind to impale someone, do it with conviction.”

“Carpe Scrotum. Seize life by the testicles”