Cynthia Green Quotes in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)

Harry Street: Darling, there's a war going on there.

Cynthia Green: There's a war goung on here too right at this table! There's a dandy little war going on!

Cynthia Green: What is the matter with me, Mr. Johnson?

Johnson: Everybody isn't required to like Africa, you know.

Cynthia Green: I try to put on a show because I know he loves it so. But all of it - the hunting, the killing - terrifies me.

Johnson: See here, this thing that he was talking about - the excitement - call it courage. The way he feels, it is a man's feeling, natural in a man, grows in a man, and makes him a man. Not particularly to his credit if he has it but something lacking if he hasn't. A woman shows her courage in other ways, - many ways.

Harry Street: [talking about their African trip] There's a wonderful book in it. Maybe I'll write it some day.

Cynthia Green: Darling!

Harry Street: Don't spoil it! Don't talk it all away!

Cynthia Green: Darling, I was so wrong about the child! I know that God would punish me!

Cynthia Green: [of the saxophone player] Hasn't that African got any piety at all?