Arsenic and Old Lace quotes

56 total quotes

Elaine Harper
Jonathan Brewster
Mortimer Brewster
Other
Teddy

View Quote [Mortimer is feeling amorous in the cemetery with Elaine]
Elaine: Mortimer! Right out here in the open with everyone looking?
Mortimer: Yes, right out here in the open with everyone looking. Let everyone in Brooklyn over sixteen look!

View Quote All I did was cross the bridge and I was in Brooklyn. Amazing.

View Quote Certainly there are thirteen bodies in the cellar and there are hundreds more in the attic!

View Quote CHAAARGE!!!

View Quote Even the cat's in on it!

View Quote I shall be in my office vetoing some bills.

View Quote Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

View Quote The home of my youth... As a child, I wanted to escape it. Now, I want to escape back into it.

View Quote This time, I want the face of an absolute non-entity!

View Quote We better not leave the car parked in the street; it might be against the law.

View Quote We were married today. We were going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Your brother tries to kill me. A taxi is waiting and now you want to sleep on a window seat. You can take the honeymoon, your wedding ring, your taxi, your window seat, and put 'em in a barrel and push 'em all over Niagara Falls!

View Quote When I come back, I expect to find you gone. Wait for me!

View Quote [explaining to Elaine why they shouldn't be married] You wouldn't want to have children with three heads, would you? I mean, you wouldn't want to set up housekeeping in a padded cell. Oh, it would be bad.

View Quote [last lines] No, no. I'm not a Brewster. I'm the son of a sea-cook! Ha! Ha! Chaaaaarrrge!

View Quote [Meeting with Dr. Gilchrist in the cemetery] Pull up a tombstone!