Philadelphia Story, The (1940) quotes

80 total quotes

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

View Quote Tracy: I'm such an unholy mess of a girl...But never in my life, not if I live to be a hundred, will I ever forget how you tried to stand me on my feet again.
Dexter: You - you're in great shape.

View Quote Tracy: [about George] You hardly know him.
Dexter: To hardly know him is to know him well.

View Quote Tracy: I don't know what's the matter with me. I must have had too much sun yesterday. My eyes don't open properly.
Dexter: You should have taken a quick swim when you got home.
Tracy: [remembering the previous night] A swim? A swim!
Dexter: There, now they're open.
Dinah: That was just the beginning, and it was no dream!

View Quote Mike: I guess this must be love.
George: Your guess is correct, Mr. Connor.
Tracy: I'm just his faithful old dog Tray.
George: Give me your paw!
Tracy: You've got it. [He takes her hand and kisses it]

View Quote Nothing ever possibly in the least ever happens here! Mother, how do you get smallpox?

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

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

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

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 Tracy: How do I look?
Mr. Lord: Like a queen - like a goddess.
Tracy: And do you know how I feel?
Mr. Lord: How?
Tracy: Like a human. Like a human being.
Mr. Lord: Do you know how I feel?
Tracy: How?
Mr. Lord: Proud.

View Quote Uncle Willie: [posing as Mr. Lord] I don't suppose a man ever had a better or finer family. You know, I often wake up in the night and say to myself, Seth - you lucky dog. What have you done to deserve it all?
Margaret: And what have you?

View Quote [As George is about to hit Mike, Dexter instead steps in and hits Mike]
George: Hey listen! What right have...?
Dexter: A husband's, till tomorrow, Kittredge.
[George leaves]
Dexter: [to Mike] I know. I know. I'm sorry. But I thought I'd better hit you before he did. He's in better shape than I am.
Mike: Well, you're enough.

View Quote Mrs. Lord: I think that dress hikes up a little behind.
Dinah: No, it's me that does.

View Quote Oh, it won't rain. Tracy won't have it.