- Blair Warner: You've got not business at that Cotillion and you know it!
- Jo Polniaczek: I've got as much business there as you do, only I got more, I was asked!
- Mrs. Edna Ann Garrett: What he did... is inexcusable. But you handled it with such dignity, grace... class. Oh.
- [sighs, hugs Jo]
- Mrs. Edna Ann Garrett: Of course, part of me wishes you'd haul off and hit him with something.
- Jo Polniaczek: I did... see, that's what happened to your other shoe.
- Jo Polniaczek: I guess when you come from the wrong side of the tracks, guys think your easy.
- Blair Warner: Hey they think that when you come from the right side of the tracks too. Heck, I own most of the tracks and some of them think that about me!
- Blair Warner: [after Harrison demeans women, unaware Jo's standing behind him] I understand perfectly. What you're saying is there's two kinds of women. The kind you marry and the kind you... don't.
- Jo Polniaczek: That's exactly what he's saying.
- Blair Warner: How could you let him say that? Do something, deck him!
- Jo Polniaczek: I already did that.
- Harrison Andrews: I, uh, guess I better leave.
- Blair Warner: No, buster. You stick around here. I'll deck you!
- [lunges after him and Jo stops her]
- Harrison Andrews: [after he explains why he asked Jo to the cotillion in the first place] Blair, be sensible. You're the kind of girl men want in their future.
- Blair Warner: [sarcastically] Oh. And Jo's the kind of girl men need in their past.
- Jo Polniaczek: Oh, you can count me out, because I've got other plans for tonight.
- Harrison Andrews: Yeah? Uh, what kind of plans?
- Jo Polniaczek: Oh, I don't know. Have a little fun and get a few kicks.
- Harrison Andrews: Right. What's life without kicks?
- Jo Polniaczek: Death.
- Harrison Andrews: So what do you do, just... hop on your bike and hit the streets?
- Jo Polniaczek: Only when I don't hold on tight enough.
- Harrison Andrews: Yeah. Bet you stay out till all hours, don't you?
- Jo Polniaczek: Oh, no, we have a curfew.
- [scoffs]
- Jo Polniaczek: And sometimes I even make it.
- [giggles]
- Harrison Andrews: Where are you going tonight?
- Jo Polniaczek: Oh, probably swing by the arcade in town.
- Harrison Andrews: [scoffs] How'd you like it if I showed up at the arcade tonight?
- Jo Polniaczek: It's a public place. I mean, I couldn't have you arrested.
- Harrison Andrews: Look, I gotta get back. Would you tell Blair I had to go?
- Jo Polniaczek: Mm. Sure.
- Blair Warner: But when two minds think as one, and one mind is mine, I always get what I want. Besides, why do you think he came to Bates in the first place?
- Mrs. Edna Ann Garrett: Blair, you... you don't think a boy would change schools, change countries...
- [with laughter:]
- Mrs. Edna Ann Garrett: just to take you to a dance?
- Blair Warner: They have before.
- Mrs. Edna Ann Garrett: Have you known each other long?
- Blair Warner: Ever since we were babies. Our families have always hoped we would grow up and join our two great bloodlines.
- Jo Polniaczek: Are you people, or racehorses?
- Blair Warner: Better a racehorse than a jackass. Of course, we haven't seen each other in years.
- [gushes]
- Blair Warner: Harrison's been going to school in Switzerland.
- Jo Polniaczek: [to Harrison] What did you major in, yodeling?
- Harrison Andrews: It's a little more than that.
- Mrs. Edna Ann Garrett: Well, after Switzerland, I hope you don't find Bates Academy boring.
- Blair Warner: It will be such fun. We'll pick up where we left off when we were six.
- Natalie Green: That would be sweet, seeing you two pedaling around on tricycles.
- Blair Warner: Harrison's toys have four wheels now. Tell them about your new Porsche.
- Harrison Andrews: Oh, I just got it.
- Blair Warner: Candy-apple red, with his initials on the door.
- Jo Polniaczek: [excited] Turbo-charged?
- Blair Warner: Of course not! He paid cash.
- Natalie Green: In my book, if you don't get an engraved invitation in front of witnesses, it's iffy at best.
- Blair Warner: Listen, girls, there are two things in my life that I am sure of. One, that I am going to marry money. And, two, that I am going to the High Crest Cotillion tonight.
- Natalie Green: [as they play Scrabble] Relax, Blair, you are so uptight.
- Mrs. Edna Ann Garrett: [very much upset] I am not uptight.
- Natalie Green: Then how come you keep spelling words like 'call' and 'phone' and 'dance' and 'kill'?
- Mrs. Edna Ann Garrett: Because I am going to kill Harrison if he doesn't call me on the phone and tell me about the dance.
- Natalie Green: [softly] As long as you're not uptight.
- Natalie Green: [as Blair dropped out of playing Scrabble] Relax, Blair, you are so uptight.
- Blair Warner: [upset] I am not uptight.
- Natalie Green: Then how come you keep spelling words like 'call' and 'phone' and 'dance' and 'kill'?
- Blair Warner: Because I am going to kill Harrison if he doesn't call me on the phone and tell me about the dance.
- Natalie Green: [softly] As long as you're not uptight.
- Natalie Green: Because... Harrison is in a state of flux.
- Blair Warner: What's that?
- Natalie Green: It's what comes in between adolescence and law school.
- Blair Warner: Oh, you mean rebellion? Well, if he wanted to rebel, why didn't he just say so? I would have rebelled with him.
- Natalie Green: Blair, to you rebellion is using your salad fork all through dinner.
- Harrison Andrews: [girlfriend wears leather jacket] Blair...! You look...
- Blair Warner: Adventurous? Unpredictable? Lawless?
- Harrison Andrews: Ridiculous is the word that comes to mind.
- Blair Warner: What do you mean?
- Harrison Andrews: [chuckles] It's just not you, Blair. I mean, you're Harper's Bazaar, not Popular Mechanics.