Kip: Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called in-breeding; from this comes idiot children and more lawyers.

Amanda: Now, you look here, Kip. I’m fighting my prejudices, but it’s clear that you’re behaving like a, like a–well, I’d hate to put it this way–like a man.
Kip: You watch your language!

Kip: Well, good luck tomorrow, Amanda. I’m on your side, I guess you know that. You’ve got me so convinced, I may even go out and become a woman. Goodnight. [leaves]Adam: And he wouldn’t have far to go, either.
Amanda: Shh!
Adam: What’s a matter?
Kip: [steps back into the kitchen and whispers] He can hear you.

Amanda: And after you shot your husband… how did you feel?
Doris: Hungry!

Adam: [takes a bite out of his fake gun] Licorice. If there’s anything I’m a sucker for, it’s licorice.

Beryl: She tried to shoot me.
Adam: How do you know that?
Beryl: Because she did it.

Adam: No matter what you think you think, you think the same as I think.

Amanda: And when did you stop loving your wife? Tell the truth.
Warren: At least 3 years.
Amanda: Why? Tell the truth.
Warren: She started getting too fat.
Amanda: Did you tell her about that?
Warren: Yes.
Amanda: What happened?
Warren: She got fatter.

Adam: Why did you marry her?
Warren: How should I know? Who knows? Why’d you marry yours? Does anybody know?

Amanda: What I said was true, there’s no difference between the sexes. Men, women, the same.
Adam: They are, huh?
Amanda: Well, maybe there is a difference, but it’s a little difference.
Adam: Well, you know as the French say…
Amanda: What do they say?
Adam: Vive la Difference!
Amanda: Which means?
Adam: Which means hooray for that little difference.

Beryl: And then I heard a noise.
Adam: What kind of noise?
Beryl: Like a sound.

Adam: What’s the matter? Don’t you want your rubdown? What? What are ya, sore about a little slap?
Amanda: No.
Adam: Well, what then?
Amanda: You meant that, didn’t you? You really meant that.
Adam: Why, no, I…
Amanda: Yes, you did. I can tell. I know your type. I know a slap from a slug.
Adam: Well, OK, OK… .
Amanda: I’m not so sure it is. I’m not so sure I care to–expose myself to typical instinctive masculine brutality.
Adam: Oh, come now.
Amanda: And it felt not only as though you meant it, but as though you felt you had a right to. I can tell.
Adam: What’ve you got back there? Radar equipment?

Amanda: Nobody died in the evening paper, isn’t that nice?

Kip:What have you been eating, raspberry jam or Amanda’s face?

Amanda: [addressing the court] For years, women have been ridiculed, pampered, chucked under the chin. I ask you, on behalf of us all, be fair to the fair sex.
Adam: We’ll be here a year.

• In the scene in which Amanda is driving Adam to work, he tells her, “Oh, you’re giving me the Bryn Mawr accent”. Bryn Mawr College was Katharine Hepburn’s alma mater, where she claimed to have gained her distinctive voice.
• Inspired by the real-life story of husband-and-wife lawyers William Dwight Whitney and Dorothy Whitney, who represented Raymond Massey and his ex-wife, Adrianne Allen, in their divorce. After the Massey divorce was finalized, the Whitneys divorced each other and married their respective partners, the Masseys.
• Katharine Hepburn reportedly urged director George Cukor to focus the camera on Judy Holliday during a number of their shared scenes, not only because she was a fan of the new-to-movies Holliday but because it was hoped the studios would see how terrific Holliday was and cast her as the lead in Born Yesterday (1950), the role she’d created on Broadway. It worked.
• During filming, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy stayed in separate homes, as was their custom whenever they traveled together. That allowed them to maintain their decades-long relationship without any scandal appearing in the press.
• The sixth of nine movies Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy did together.
• When Tom Ewell is walking to his girlfriend’s apartment at the beginning of the film, he is whistling “You Are My Lucky Star.” This song is also featured in Singin’ in the Rain (1952), which stars the same actress who plays Ewell’s girlfriend, Jean Hagen.