Isabel [to George]
Darling, did you get something to eat?...Are you sure you didn't catch cold coming home?... [about Eugene] Has he asked about me? I would have liked to have seen him. Just once.
Played by Dolores Costello 
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) · 59 quotes
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) · 59 quotes
Tied for 4th most-quoted character in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942): in 11 of its 59 quotes
Most scenes with: George (6), Eugene (4), Fanny (3)
Scenes with Isabel
11 scenes Isabel Isabel You must promise me never to use those bad words again.
I promise not to... [pause] unless I get mad at somebody.
Isabel [about Wilbur]
It seems to me he looks so badly...He's been worried about some investments he made last year. I think the worry's affected his health.
What investments? He isn't going into Morgan's automobile concern, is he?
Look here, father, about this man Morgan and his old sewing machine. Don't they want to get grandfather to put some money into it? Isn't that what he's up to?
You little silly! What on earth are you talking about? Eugene Morgan's perfectly able to finance his own inventions these days.
I'll bet he borrows money from Uncle Jack.
Isabel Georgie. Why do you say such a thing?
He just strikes me as that sort of a man. Isn't he father?
Wilbur
He was a fairly wild fellow twenty years ago. He's like you in one thing, Georgie. He spent too much money. Only he didn't have any mother to get money out of her grandfather for it. But I believe he's done fairly well of late years, and I doubt if he needs anybody else's money to back his horseless carriage.
Oh, what's he brought the old thing here for, then?
Wilbur
I'm sure I don't know. You'll want to ask him.
You're the same Isabel I used to know - you're a divinely ridiculous woman.
Isabel Divinely ridiculous just counterbalance each other, don't they? Plus one and minus one equal nothing. So you mean I'm nothing in particular?
No, that doesn't seem to be precisely what I meant.
Remember this. Our first machine. The original Morgan Invincible.
Isabel I remember.
How quaint!
Did you ever see anything so lovely...as your mother [Isabel] - she's a darling, and Papa looks as if he were going to either explode or utter loud sounds.
Isabel It makes us all happy Eugene. Give him your hand, Fanny. There. If brother Jack were here, Eugene would have his three oldest and best friends congratulating him all at once. We know what brother Jack thinks about it, though.
I used to write verse about twenty years ago. Remember that?
Isabel I remember that too.
I'm almost thinking I could do it again. To thank you for making a factory visit into such a kind celebration.
Isabel, dear.
Isabel Yes, Eugene.
Don't you think you should tell George?
Isabel About us?
Yes.
Isabel There's still time.
I think he should hear it from you.
Isabel He will, dearest. Soon. Soon.
Isabel Lucy's on a visit, Father. She's spending a week with a school friend.
She'll be back Monday.
George, how does it happen you didn't tell us before? He never said a word to us about Lucy going away!
Probably afraid to. Didn't know that he might break down and cry if we tried to speak of it, isn't that so, Georgie? [He laughs at George]
She told me!
At any rate, Georgie didn't approve. I suppose you two aren't speaking again. Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Isabel Georgie dear, what did you mean?
Just what I said.
Isabel He was hurt.
I don't see why he should be. I didn't say anything about him. He didn't seem to me to be hurt. He seemed perfectly cheerful. What makes you think he was hurt?
Isabel I know him.
Well, it's a new style of courting a pretty girl, I must say, for a young fellow to go deliberately out of his way to try to make an enemy of her father by attacking his business. By jove, that's a new way of winning a woman.
Fair! Fair when he says that he and you don't care what people say? But you're my mother. You're an Amberson.
Isabel We'll go away for a while, you and I.
Isabel It's changed. It's so changed.
You mean, you mean the town? You mean the old place has changed, don't you dear?
Isabel Yes.
It will change to a happier place, old dear, now that you're back. You're going to get well here.
