Nothing ever possibly in the least ever happens here! Mother, how do you get smallpox?
Tracy Samantha Lord
Katharine Hepburn · 41 quotes
Macaulay 'Mike' Connor
James Stewart · 35 quotes
Dexter
Cary Grant · 23 quotes
Dinah Lord
Virginia Weidler · 13 quotes
Margaret
Mary Nash · 11 quotes
Liz
Ruth Hussey · 9 quotes
George
John Howard · 8 quotes
Uncle Willie
Roland Young · 5 quotes
Kidd
Henry Daniell · 4 quotes
Most scenes together: Tracy Samantha Lord & Macaulay 'Mike' Connor (13), Tracy Samantha Lord & Dexter (13), Macaulay 'Mike' Connor & Dexter (9)
The Philadelphia Story quotes
Page 2 of 6Oh, it won't rain. Tracy won't have it.
I can tell there's something in the air because I'm being taken away.
[hungover]
Awww... this is one of those days that the pages of history teach us are best spent in bed.
Must we ride in this thing? Wouldn't we be more comfortable on pogo sticks?
I feel as though I'd lived through all of this before in another life.
Hello, friends and enemies.
This stinks.
Don't say 'stinks,' darling. If absolutely necessary, 'smells' - but only if absolutely necessary.
If you just face the facts squarely as I did.
We both might face the fact that neither of us have proved to be a very great success as a wife.
We just picked the wrong first husbands, that's all.
Isn't George an angel?...Is he handsome or is he not?
George is handsome.
I like Dexter.
Really. Why don't you postpone the wedding?
How?
Get smallpox.
Now don't put the idea in her head.
She's so mean about Dexter.
He was rather mean to her, my dear.
Did he really sock her?
Please, Dinah.
Did he really?
Darling. You go out and wait in the car.
The papers were full of 'innundo.'
Of what?
Of 'innundo.' 'Cruelty and drunkenness,' it said. She's sort of, well you know, hard, isn't she?
Certainly not. Tracy sets exceptionally high standards for herself, that's all. And other people aren't always quite apt to live up to them.
But don't you think it's stinking not at least to want father?
Yes, darling. Between ourselves, I think it's good and stinking.
[looking through Spy Magazine]
Well I thought maybe you, you being one of the oldest families in Philadelphia and me getting fairly important myself, it's luck of course...
[tossing the paper into the dirt]
Of all the filthy ideas - coming into a private house with a camera.
Your assignment will be Spy's most sensational achievement - Tracy Lord. Big game hunting in Africa, fox hunting in Pennsylvania. Married on impulse and divorced in a rage. And always unapproachable by the press. 'The Unapproachable Miss Lord.' 'The Philadelphia Story'...(quote) 'A Wedding Day Inside Mainline Society.'
Or: 'What the Kitchen Maid Saw Through the Keyhole.' (unquote)...(quote) 'No hunter of buckshot in the rear is Cagey Crafty Connor.' (unquote) (close paragraph)
Close job, close bank account. But Mr. Kidd, how can you possibly get inside the Lord estate, let alone the house?
Now we're not gonna do it, Liz, dawgonnit, it's degrading. It's undignified.
And so is an empty stomach. How do we get in?