Meet Me in St. Louis quotes

43 total quotes

Esther Smith
John Truett
Mr. Alonzo Smith

Mrs. Anna Smith
Others
Rose Smith
Tootie Smith

View Quote [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.

View Quote [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.

View Quote [to Esther] You don't need any beauty sleep.

View Quote 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.

View Quote [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.

View Quote Poor Margaretta!

View Quote 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.

View Quote [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.

View Quote [to Mrs. Smith] Aren't you afraid to stay here alone with a criminal? That's what I'm being treated like.

View Quote [to Mr. Smith] Well, Papa, if losing a case depresses you so, why don't you quit practicing law and go into another line of business?

View Quote [to Esther] You've got a mighty strong grip for a girl.

View Quote [to Mr. Smith, after he hangs up on a caller] You've just ruined Rose's chance to get married, that's all...That was Warren Sheffield calling long-distance to propose.

View Quote [to Rose] If I were you, I wouldn't commit myself one way or another...after all, we know very little about him. Why, we haven't even met his folks. Not a word of this to Papa. You know how he plagues the girls about their beaus.