Dinah Lord Oh, it won't rain. Tracy won't have it.
Played by Virginia Weidler 
The Philadelphia Story (1940) · 82 quotes
The Philadelphia Story (1940) · 82 quotes
4th most-quoted character in The Philadelphia Story (1940): in 13 of its 82 quotes
Most scenes with: Tracy Samantha Lord (4), Margaret (4)
Nothing ever possibly in the least ever happens here! Mother, how do you get smallpox?
More lines from Dinah Lord
5 quotes Dinah Lord Dinah Lord [about Spy Magazine]
I love it. It's got pictures of everything.
Dinah Lord I can tell there's something in the air because I'm being taken away.
Dinah Lord Oh, I wish something would happen! Nothing ever possibly in the least ever happens here!
Dinah Lord [watching the wedding, triumphant]
I did it. I did it all!
Scenes with Dinah Lord
7 scenes Dinah This stinks.
Don't say 'stinks,' darling. If absolutely necessary, 'smells' - but only if absolutely necessary.
Isn't George an angel?...Is he handsome or is he not?
George is handsome.
Dinah I like Dexter.
Really. Why don't you postpone the wedding?
Dinah How?
Get smallpox.
Now don't put the idea in her head.
Dinah She's so mean about Dexter.
He was rather mean to her, my dear.
Dinah Did he really sock her?
Please, Dinah.
Dinah Did he really?
Darling. You go out and wait in the car.
Dinah The papers were full of 'innundo.'
Of what?
Dinah 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.
Dinah 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.
They aren't anybody's friends, but we're to pretend they are...Don't ask me, there's a good reason and it's my wedding, so please!
Dinah I'll bet it's on account of father and that dancer in New York.
Watching every little mannerism, jotting down notes on how we sit, stand, talk, and even move...And all in that horrible, snide, corkscrew English. Well, if we have to submit to it to save father's face, which [she covers Dinah's ears] incidentally doesn't deserve it, I'm for giving them a picture of home life that will stand their hair on end.
No. Tracy, we must just be ourselves. Very much ourselves.
Mrs. Lord
I think that dress hikes up a little behind.
Dinah No, it's me that does.
I don't know what's the matter with me. I must have had too much sun yesterday. My eyes don't open properly.
You should have taken a quick swim when you got home.
There, now they're open.
Dinah That was just the beginning, and it was no dream!
Dinah I dreamed I got up and went over to the window - and guess what I dreamed I saw coming over out of the woods?
I haven't the faintest idea. A skunk?
Dinah Well, sort of - it was Mr. Connor.
Mr. Connor?
Dinah Yes, with his both arms full of something. And guess what it turned out to be?
What?
Dinah You, and some clothes. Wasn't it funny? It was sort of like as if you were coming from the pool.
The pool? I'm going crazy. I'm standing here solidly on my own two hands and going crazy. Then what?
Dinah And after a while, I opened my door a crack and there he was in the hall, still coming along with you, puffing like a steam engine. His wind can't be very good.
Then what?
Dinah And you were sort of crooning.
I never crooned in my life.
Dinah I'm only saying what it sounded like. And then he - guess what?
I couldn't possibly.
Dinah Then he just sailed right into your room with you, and that scared me, so I got up and went to your door and peeked in to make sure you were all right. And guess what?
What?
Dinah You were. He was gone by then.
Gone? Of course he was gone - he was never there!
Dinah I know, Tracy.
Well, I should certainly hope you did.
Dinah I'm certainly glad I do, because if I didn't and in a little while I heard the minister say, 'If anyone knows any just cause or reason why these two should not be united in holy matrimony,' I just wouldn't know what to do. Dexter says it's a dream too.
Dex-, you told Dexter all that?
Dinah Not a word. Not a single word. But you know how quick he is.
Dinah Lord, you little fiend, how can you stand there and...?
