The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Mary Nash: Margaret Lord

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• Margaret Lord : The course of true love...

  Macaulay Connor : ...gathers no moss.

• Macaulay Connor : This is the Bridal Suite. Would you send up a couple of caviar sandwiches and a bottle of beer?

  Margaret Lord : What? Who is this?

  Macaulay Connor : This is the Voice of Doom calling. Your days are numbered, to the seventh son of the seventh son.

  Margaret Lord : Hello? Hello?

  Tracy Lord : What's the matter?

  Margaret Lord : One of the servants has been at the sherry again.

• Margaret Lord : Oh, dear. Is there no such thing as privacy any more?

  Tracy Lord : Only in bed, mother, and not always there.

• Margaret Lord : We both might face the facts that neither of us has proved to be a very great success as a wife.

  Tracy Lord : We just picked the wrong first husband.

• Margaret Lord : I think that dress hikes up a little behind...

  Dinah Lord : No, it's me that does.

• Margaret Lord : Are you one of the musicians?

  Macaulay Connor : No!

  Margaret Lord : Oh of course, you're Junius's friend. Only you're not. Do you have any violin strings?

  Macaulay Connor : [digs in his pocket]  I have an aspirin. Will that work?

  Margaret Lord : I don't think so! It's for a violin. Oh well, no matter!

• Tracy Lord : Mother, how do you spell: omelette?

  Margaret Lord : O-M-M-E-L-E-T

  Tracy Lord : I thought there was another "L"