Mrs. Brown:
What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?
Velvet Brown:
I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.
Mrs. Brown:
That'll be a dispute to the end of time, Mr. Brown: whether it's better to do the right thing for the wrong reason or the wrong thing for the right reason.
Mi Taylor:
Some day you'll learn that greatness is only the seizing of opportunity - clutching with your bare hands 'til the knuckles show white.
Mr. Hallam:
So you're to win the gelding, are you Velvet?
Velvet:
Oh, of course I'm to win.
Mr. Hallam:
There are ways of arranging it, aren't there? And your father's a clever man...
Velvet:
Oh, I didn't bother him, Mr. Hallam. I just arranged it with God.
[Mrs. Brown is talking with Velvet in the attic]
Mrs. Brown:
We're alike. I, too, believe that everyone should have a chance at a breathtaking piece of folly once in his life. I was twenty when they said a woman couldn't swim the Channel. You're twelve; you think a horse of yours can win the Grand National. Your dream has come early; but remember, Velvet, it will have to last you all the rest of your life.