Barbara Worth Quotes in The Wicked Lady (1945)

Barbara Worth: I never could resist anything that belonged to somebody else.

Barbara Worth: Why did you shoot that horse? I'd rather kill a man any day.

Barbara Worth: Do you always take women by the throat?

Capt. Jerry Jackson: No, I just take 'em.

Lady Henrietta Kingsclere: Barbara, are you trying to make a fool of me?

Barbara Worth: Of course not. There's no need.

Willard Holmes: You're wasting yourself here, Miss Worth - - like an orchid in a bucket of sand.

Barbara Worth: You don't know the desert as I do. It is beautiful.

Willard Holmes: Beautiful perhaps - for one moonlit night - but if you could see the big cities - if they could see you!

Barbara Worth: To redeem the desert - to make it all one garden - - Isn't that a fine thing to do?

Willard Holmes: But you don't belong here among these human cactus plants.

Barbara Worth: Mr. Holmes, do you realize that to all these people you are an angel from heaven?

Willard Holmes: I'm really only the engineer for a soulless corporation bent on making big money quick.

Barbara Worth: Your dream is coming true - - the desert will bloom into a Paradise!

Abe Lee: Adiós, hermanita.

Barbara Worth: Adiós, hermano. Hasta luego.

Willard Holmes: Why do you and Mr. Lee always speak Spanish?

Barbara Worth: It's the language of our desert. You ought to learn it.

Willard Holmes: What is the Spanish for 'I love you'?

[Barbara starts to walk away]

Willard Holmes: Please forgive me!

Barbara Worth: Out here, Mr. Holmes, one doesn't learn how to say 'I love you' - one learns how to *prove* it. Buenos notes, señor.

Willard Holmes: I just came to say I can't come to dinner. I'm ordered to the river.

Barbara Worth: I'm sorry. I was baking this pie especially for you.

Willard Holmes: I'm going East soon and I don't want to go alone.

Barbara Worth: I'll bake you a pie to take with you.

Willard Holmes: I want to take *you* along!

Barbara Worth: Am I killing you?

Willard Holmes: I rather enjoy it. Do you know how wonderful you are?