Maureen O'Hara movie quotes

View Quote Angharad: [about Mr. Gruffydd] How is he, Huw?
Huw: Not as he was.
Angharad: Is he ill?
Huw: Inside, in his eyes, in his voice. Like you.
Angharad: Please go home, Huw.

View Quote Mr. Gruffydd: You shouldn't be here.
Angharad: I couldn't spend another night without knowing. What has happened? Is anything wrong?
Mr. Gruffydd: Wrong?
Angharad: You know what I mean. Why have you changed towards me? Why am I a stranger now? Have I done anything?
Mr. Gruffydd: No - the blame is mine. Your mother spoke to me after Chapel. She is happy to think you will be having plenty all your days.
Angharad: [scornfully] Iestyn Evans.
Mr. Gruffydd: You could do no better.
Angharad: I don't want him. I want you.
Mr. Gruffydd: Angharad - I have spent nights too - trying to think this out. When I took up this work, I knew what it meant - it meant sacrifice and devotion and making it my whole life to the exclusion of everything else. That I was perfectly willing to do. But to share it with another - Do you think I will have you going threadbare all your life? Depending on the charity of others for your good meals? Our children growing up in cast-off clothing - and ourselves thanking God for parenthood in a house full of bits? No - I can bear with such a life for the sake of my work. But I think I would start to kill if I saw the white come to your hair twenty years before its time.
Angharad: [softly, with tears in her eyes] Why? Why would you start to kill? Are you a man or a saint?
Mr. Gruffydd: I am no saint, but I have a duty towards you. Let me do it.
[She comes closer to him, and with her hands on his shoulders kisses him, before leaving]

View Quote Angharad: [after the church elders castigate an unwed mother] How could you stand there and watch them? Cruel old men, groaning and nodding to hurt her more. That is not the Word of God! 'Go now and sin no more,' Jesus said.
Mr. Gruffydd: Angharad! You know your Bible too well, and life too little.
Angharad: I know enough of life to know that Meillyn Lewis is no worse than I am!
Mr. Gruffydd: Angharad!
Angharad: What do the deacons know about it? What do you know about what could happen to a poor girl when she loves a man so much that even to lose sight of him for a moment is torture!

View Quote [Grandmother rattles off the day's schedule at the breakfast table]
Susan Evers: [as Sharon] I don't think I'll be able to do any of those today.
Grandmother: [surprised] What did you say?
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Sharon! You interrupted your grandmother.
Susan Evers: Well I have something important to tell you. [emphatically] Mother, I think what you and Daddy did to us children is lousy! In fact, I think it stinks!
Grandmother: Sharon!
Susan Evers: [approaching Grandmother] And let's get this straight, I'm not Sharon, I'm Susan. [facing her mother] Sharon, your Sharon, is out in California with Daddy.
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: But it's impossible!
Grandmother: You can't be Susan.
Susan Evers: But I AM Susan. Sharon and I met at camp, so we decided to switch places. She bit off her fingernails and I cut her hair, and now she's out in California with Dad, swimming and riding my horse and having a KEEN time and I'm stuck here with these lousy music lessons and I HATE them!
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: [staring as if too good to be true] Susan!
Susan Evers: Oh I'm sorry, Mother. But I wanted to see you, and I missed not having a mother. I love you very much, and I wondered, if you could love me as me and not as Sharon. Please?
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Oh Susan! [she hugs Susan] Oh my darling. Why didn't you let me know? Why didn't you tell me?
Susan Evers: I couldn't help it. I mean, I wanted to be near you and to know what it was like to have a mother and everything.
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Oh, Baby. [they hug again]
Grandmother: [getting up and hugging Susan] Susan, darling! Let me look at you. [to Maggie] She's EXACTLY ...
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: I know, I can't believe it.

View Quote [Maggie, Susan and Verbena enter the house]
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Oh, it was just wonderful!
Sharon McKendrick: [coming down the stairs] Mother! Oh, I'm so glad you came! [Sharon and Maggie hug] Oh! You look wonderful! What'd you do to yourself?
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Do you like it?
Sharon McKendrick: Oh, I love it!
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Oh darling! [Maggie hugs Sharon again] Oh! Finally! Both of you together at last. What do you think of each other?
Sharon McKendrick: Fine.
Susan Evers: We love each other!
Sharon McKendrick: Hi, Sue.
Susan Evers: Hi.
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: [Addressing Sharon] Oh and just look at you! That short hair.
Susan Evers: I cut it, Mother.
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: You know, I like it.
Sharon McKendrick: Oh, and I love yours, Mother.
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Where's your father?
Sharon McKendrick: Oh, he's out somewhere on a horse.
Susan Evers: [to Sharon] Are we in time?
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: [to Susan] Time?
Sharon McKendrick: [to Susan] Didn't you tell her? [Susan shakes her head, no]
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Tell me what?
Susan Evers: Well ...
Sharon McKendrick: Dad's getting married.
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Well. When is all this taking place?
Verbena: Saturday, supposedly. [Maggie looks away, anxiously]
Sharon McKendrick: She just sort of infiltrated, Mother. And before you knew it, Dad was hooked.
Verbena: If you ask me, Mr. Evers is slipping into his second childhood.
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Oh your father is old enough to know what he's doing. Shall we go upstairs and get unpacked? I'm just dying to get into a hot shower after that long plane trip.
[Chatter as they all move up the stairs]

View Quote Mitch Evers: Ah Maggie, you're so beautiful.
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: [to brush it off] Ah...
Mitch Evers: No I mean it! I know I don't say things like you want to hear, but I've been thinking a lot about you, and us, and the way things used to be... this might sound funny to you but you know what I've missed most of all?
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Mitch?
Mitch Evers: What?
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: You've got stew all over you.
Mitch Evers: I don't care.
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Go and wash it off. [pause] What do you miss?
Mitch Evers: Well, I don't care if it does sound silly; I miss those wet stockings you used to have hanging around the bathroom, and I miss my razor being dull because you used it to shave your legs with. And I miss the hairpins mixed up with the fish hooks in my tackle box... it's no fun having a clothes closet all to myself. And it's no fun swearing because you're not around to make believe you're shocked by it. Well, nothing's any good without you Maggie, I miss a lot of things... I guess I just miss you!
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Why did you take so long to tell me?
Mitch Evers: I don't know... Well because, cause I guess I was hoping that you'd come back sometime. Maggie, I've been the prize chump of the world. We've both been. We're going to grow into a couple of old lonely people if we don't do something about it.
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: I know.
Mitch Evers: You don't want that, do you?
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: No Mitch.
[they kiss]
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Oh Mitch, it's been so long... so very long.
Mitch Evers: Don't cry. Listen, you can slug me in the eye anytime you want.
Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick: Ok!

View Quote Susan, I speak French but that doesn't make me Joan of Arc!

View Quote Doris Walker: Would you please tell her that you're not really Santa Claus, that actually is no such person?
Kris Kringle: Well, I hate to disagree with you, but not only IS there such a person, but here I am to prove it.