Meet Me in St. Louis quotes
43 total quotes (ID: 940)Mrs. Anna Smith
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Rose Smith
Tootie Smith
Tootie: Here comes the invalid. I have to have two kinds of ice cream. I'm recuperating.
Mrs. Smith: If I ever catch you fibbing again like you did about John Truett, I'll give you something to recuperate about.
Mrs. Smith: If I ever catch you fibbing again like you did about John Truett, I'll give you something to recuperate about.
Warren Sheffield: [rushes in] Rose Smith. We can't go on like this any longer. I've positively decided we're going to get married at the earliest opportunity. And I don't want to hear any arguments. That's final. I love you. [rushes out]
Mr. Smith: I'd like to meet that boy sometime.
Mr. Smith: I'd like to meet that boy sometime.
[after finding out that Tootie had lied about John Truett] You're the most deceitful, horrible, sinful creature I ever saw, and I don't ever want to have anything to do with you again.
[learning that the family must move to New York] It'll take me at least a week to dig up all my dolls in the cemetery.
[on having to live in an aprtment in New York] Rich people have houses. People like us live in flats, hundreds of flats in one building.
[singing] Clang, clang, clang went the trolley,
Ding, ding, ding went the bell.
Zing, zing, zing went my heartstrings,
As we started for Huntingdon dell.
Ding, ding, ding went the bell.
Zing, zing, zing went my heartstrings,
As we started for Huntingdon dell.
[singing] From my heart, a song of love, beseeching,
Just for you, my longing arms are reaching,
Time goes by, but we'll be together,
You and I.
Just for you, my longing arms are reaching,
Time goes by, but we'll be together,
You and I.
[singing] How can I ignore the Boy Next Door?
I love him more than I can say.
Doesn't try to please me, doesn't even tease me.
And he never sees me glance his way.
And though I'm heartsore, the Boy Next Door,
Affection for me won't display.
I just adore him, so I can't ignore him,
The Boy Next Door.
I love him more than I can say.
Doesn't try to please me, doesn't even tease me.
And he never sees me glance his way.
And though I'm heartsore, the Boy Next Door,
Affection for me won't display.
I just adore him, so I can't ignore him,
The Boy Next Door.
[singing] I was drunk last night, dear Mother;
I was drunk the night before.
But if you forgive me Mother,
I'll never get drunk anymore.
I was drunk the night before.
But if you forgive me Mother,
I'll never get drunk anymore.
[singing] I went to lose a jolly, hour on the trolley, and lost my heart instead
With his light brown derby and his bright green tie
He was quite the handsomest of men
I started to yen, then I counted to ten, then I counted to ten again.
With his light brown derby and his bright green tie
He was quite the handsomest of men
I started to yen, then I counted to ten, then I counted to ten again.
[singing] The moment I saw him smile
I knew he was just my style.
My only regret is we've never met,
Though I dream of him all the while.
I knew he was just my style.
My only regret is we've never met,
Though I dream of him all the while.
[smashing her snowmen] Nobody's going to have them. Not everybody's going to New York. I'd rather kill them if we can't take them with us.
[to Esther and Rose, who are singing "Meet Me in St. Louis"] For heaven's sakes, stop that screeching! That song. The fair won't open for seven months. That's all everybody sings about or talks about. I wish everybody would meet at the fair and leave me alone.
[to Esther] Did he [Santa Claus] come yet? I've been waiting such a long time. And I haven't seen a thing. How will he know how to find us next year? He's so used to coming here.
[to Esther] You don't need any beauty sleep.