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favorite line

posted 15 years ago by alxnrth
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Mine is delivered by Paulette Goddard about Buck Winston: "He could crack a coconut with those knees. . .IF HE COULD GET THEM TOGETHER!"

Dale

[–] Percivalx 15 years ago

Crystal Allen: Thanks for the tip. But when anything I wear doesn't please Stephen, I take it off.

"I don't believe it."
"That is why you fail."

[–] practicepiano 15 years ago

Don't think I can pick a favorite -- there are so many gems.

Watching it now, and enjoyed Sylvia's mumbled answer to the woman running the exercise class:

- A lady always enters the room erect.
- A lot of my friends exit horizontally.

Also like the other clerk's harrassing Crystal on the phone with Steven:

- I'll have another birthday next year.
- You'll have another birthday next WEEK.

[–] SusanJL 15 years ago

When Nancy Blake tells Sylvia "Looks like you've been tearing at somebody's throat!" after Sylvia shows off her jungle red nails - How true!!

[–] Regina_Giddens 15 years ago

"You simply must get the name of my hairdresser. I detest whoever does yours."

But you are, Blanche. You are in that chair!

[–] lscharold 12 years ago

The older maid to the younger maid (when discussing Mary and Stephen's breakup): You can't trust none of 'em. No further than I can kick this lemon pie!

[–] ec1979 12 years ago

"There's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society....outside of a kennel."

[–] LincolnMarkV 12 years ago

"Art exhibit my foot!"

"Miniatures! Sure sign of a simple mind."

"Here we are, creeping up on her!"

"And as you say, you've had so many men."

"Ten cents a cake! Well, it's alright to be homespun in the country..."

"Get me a bromide! And put some gin in it."

"Oh, ho, ho Crystal! Buck Winston! The chambermaid's delight!"

"Steven doesn't mooch around my bathroom."

"I saw it in Vogue! It goes up in the front and down in the back."

"My, we are getting off economically, aren't we?"

"And has anyone been wondering if the master of this maison might not be straying?"

"Shoot, Countess. It's a nation-wide hookup."

[–] jimbo97-1 12 years ago

My favorite line is by the Countess, singing the virtues of being single again and having the whole bed to yourself: "... you can spread out like a swastika!"

That reference would be very un-P.C. just a couple of years later when we were in WWII.