Philadelphia Story, The (1940) quotes

80 total quotes

Dinah Lord
Macaulay 'Mike' Connor
Multiple Characters
Tracy Samantha Lord
Uncle Willie

View Quote [about Spy Magazine] I love it. It's got pictures of everything.

View Quote [drunk, to cab driver] Well, this is where Cinderella gets off! Now you hurry back to the ball before you turn into a pumpkin and six white mice — goodbye!

View Quote [hungover] Awww... this is one of those days that the pages of history teach us are best spent in bed.

View Quote [in response to Mike's impromptu proposal] No, Mike. Thanks but, mm-mm. Nope...Because I don't think Liz would like it. And I'm not sure you would. And I'm even a little doubtful about myself. But I am beholden to you, Mike. I'm most beholden.

View Quote [to Dexter] Why are you doing all this unless you...Oh! oh, you want to get even with your ex-bride, huh?

View Quote [to the butler] The Queen will have bread and honey at the usual time.

View Quote Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's heavy mist before my eyes.

View Quote I can tell there's something in the air because I'm being taken away.

View Quote I feel as though I'd lived through all of this before in another life.

View Quote I would sell my grandmother for a drink — and you know how I love my grandmother.

View Quote I'm not gonna do it, Liz. I'm gonna tell Sidney Kidd very plainly and simply I'm a writer. I'm not a society snoop. I'm gonna tell him just that...Let Kidd fire me! Start writin' short stories again - that's what I should be doin' anyway. I'm gonna tell him just that.

View Quote I'm testing the air. I like it but it doesn't like me.

View Quote I've made a terrible fool of myself - which isn't unusual. And my fiancee, my fiancee that was, that is, he thinks we'd better call it a day. And I quite agree with him. [repeating what Dexter feeds her] Two years ago, you were invited to a wedding in this house and then I did you out of it by eloping to Maryland...which was very bad manners... But I hope to make it up to you by going beautifully through with it now as originally and most beautifully planned.

View Quote It's just that a lot of things I always thought were terribly important I find now are - and the other way around - and, oh what the dickens.

View Quote Must we ride in this thing? Wouldn't we be more comfortable on pogo sticks?