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The Philadelphia Story (film) Quotes

The Philadelphia Story (film) is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . The Philadelphia Story ended in 1970.

It features Joseph L. Mankiewicz as producer, Franz Waxman in charge of musical score, and Joseph Ruttenberg as head of cinematography.

The Philadelphia Story (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Philadelphia Story (film) is 112 minutes long. The Philadelphia Story (film) is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The cast includes: Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord, James Stewart as Macaulay Connor, Mary Nash as Margaret Lord, Cary Grant as C. K. Dexter Haven, John Howard as George Kittredge, Roland Young as Uncle Willie, Ruth Hussey as Elizabeth Imbrie, John Halliday as Seth Lord, Henry Daniell as Sidney Kidd, and Virginia Weidler as Dinah Lord.

The Philadelphia Story (film) Quotes

James Stewart as Macaulay Connor

  • (James Stewart) "What's this? Is it my book?"
  • (Cary Grant) "Yes."
  • (James Stewart) "C. K. Dexter Haven you have unsuspected depth."
  • (Cary Grant) "Thanks, old chap."
  • (James Stewart) "But have you read it?"
  • (Cary Grant) "When I was trying to stop drinking, I read anything."
  • (James Stewart) "And did you stop drinking?"
  • (Cary Grant) "Yes. Your book didn't do it though."
  • (James Stewart) "Uh-oh, Liz, what did I tell you? Look, how do you like this; living room, sitting room, terrace, pool, stables."
  • (Ruth Hussey) "That's probably so they can talk to the horses without having them in the house."
  • (James Stewart) "The Queen will have bread and honey at the usual time."
  • (James Stewart) "Look, who's doing the interviewing here?"
  • (Ruth Hussey) "Do you think she caught on somehow?"
  • (James Stewart) "No, she was born like that, don't let her throw you."
  • (Ruth Hussey) "Do you want to take over?"
  • (James Stewart) "I want to go home."
  • (James Stewart) "Oh Tracy darling --"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Mike --"
  • (James Stewart) "What can I say to you? Tell me darling."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Not anything; don't say anything. And especially not "darling.""
  • (James Stewart) "Doggone it, C.K. Dexter Haven. Either I'm gonna sock you or you're gonna sock me."
  • (Cary Grant) "Shall we toss a coin?"
  • (James Stewart) "Holy mackerel. What goes on here?"
  • (James Stewart) "Don't do that."
  • (Ruth Hussey) "I -- I feel exactly as though I'd been pinched."
  • (John Halliday) "Don't you think you weren't."
  • (James Stewart) "C.K. Dexter Haven. Oh, C.K. Dexter Haven."
  • (Cary Grant) "What's up?"
  • (James Stewart) "You are."
  • (Cary Grant) "I only hope it's worth it. Come in."
  • (James Stewart) "Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's heavy mist before my eyes."
  • (James Stewart) "What are her leading characteristics?"
  • (Cary Grant) "She has a horror of men who wear their hats in the house."
  • (Ruth Hussey) "Leading characteristics to be filled in later."
  • (James Stewart) "I can fill them in right now: the rich, rapacious, American female. There's no other country where she exists."
  • (Ruth Hussey) "And would I change places with Tracy Samantha Lord for all her wealth and beauty? Oh boy just ask me."
  • (James Stewart) "I bring you greetings and Cinderella's slipper, champagne. Champagne is a great leveleler -- leveleler. It makes you my equal."
  • (Cary Grant) "Not quite."
  • (James Stewart) "Well, almost my equal."
  • (James Stewart) "I'm testing the air. I like it but it doesn't like me."
  • (James Stewart) "The prettiest sight in this fine pretty world is the privileged class enjoying its privileges."
  • (James Stewart) "I would sell my grandmother for a drink; and you know how I love my grandmother."
  • (James Stewart) "Tracy."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "What do you want?"
  • (James Stewart) "You're wonderful. There's a magnificence in you, Tracy."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Now I'm getting self-conscious. It's funny. I; Mike? Let's --"
  • (James Stewart) "Yeah?"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "I don't know; go up, I guess, it's late."
  • (James Stewart) "A magnificence that comes out of your eyes, in your voice, in the way you stand there, in the way you walk. You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "I don't seem to you made of bronze?"
  • (James Stewart) "No, you're made out of flesh and blood. That's the blank, unholy surprise of it. You're the golden girl, Tracy. Full of life and warmth and delight. What goes on? You've got tears in your eyes."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Shut up, shut up. Oh, Mike. Keep talking, keep talking. Talk, will you?"
  • (James Stewart) "But they're in there. They're waiting."
  • (Ruth Hussey) "Don't get too conventional all at once, will you? There'll be a reaction."
  • (James Stewart) "C.K. Dexter Haven, I would like to talk to you."
  • (Cary Grant) "Well, let's go in the talking room."
  • (James Stewart) "I don't think you're being fair to me, Mr. Kidd."
  • (Henry Daniell) "No?"
  • (James Stewart) "No. You're treating me like you treat all your other writers."
  • (James Stewart) "You've got all the arrogance of your class, haven't you?"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "What have classes to do with it? What do they matter except for the people in them? George comes from the so-called lower class, Dexter, the upper. Well?"
  • (James Stewart) "Well --"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Mac the night watchman is a prince among men, Uncle Willie is a -- pincher. Upper and lower my eye. I'll take the lower, thanks."
  • (James Stewart) "If you can't get a drawing room."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "What does that mean?"
  • (James Stewart) "My mistake."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Decidedly. You're insulting."
  • (James Stewart) "Sorry."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Oh, don't apologize."
  • (James Stewart) "Well, who's apologizing?"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "I never knew such a man."
  • (James Stewart) "You wouldn't be likely to, from where you sit."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Talk about arrogance."
  • (James Stewart) "Tracy."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "What do you want?"
  • (James Stewart) "You're wonderful."
  • (James Stewart) "This is the Bridal Suite. Would you send up a couple of caviar sandwiches and a bottle of beer?"
  • (Mary Nash) "What? Who is this?"
  • (James Stewart) "This is the Voice of Doom calling. Your days are numbered, to the seventh son of the seventh son."
  • (Mary Nash) "Hello? Hello?"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "What's the matter?"
  • (Mary Nash) "One of the servants has been at the sherry again."
  • (James Stewart) "You going my way miss?"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "That's "Miss Goddess" to you"
  • (James Stewart) "Okay, Miss Goddess To Me."
  • (James Stewart) "Well, this is where Cinderella gets off, now you hurry back to the ball before you turn into a pumpkin and six white mice, goodbye."

John Halliday as Seth Lord

  • (John Halliday) "What most wives fail to realize is that their husband's philandering has nothing whatever to do with them."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Oh? Then what has it to do with?"
  • (John Halliday) "A reluctance to go grow old, I think."
  • (John Halliday) "I suppose the best mainstay a man can have as he gets along in years is a daughter."

Cary Grant as C. K. Dexter Haven

  • (Cary Grant) "You'll never be a first class human being or a first class woman until you've learned to have some regard for human frailty."
  • (Cary Grant) "The moon is also a goddess, chaste and virginal."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Stop using those foul words."
  • (Cary Grant) "Sometimes, for your own sake, Red, I think you should've stuck to me longer."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "I thought it was for life, but the nice judge gave me a full pardon."
  • (Cary Grant) "Aaah, that's the old redhead. No bitterness, no recrimination, just a good swift left to the jaw."
  • (Cary Grant) "Class, my -- eye."
  • (Cary Grant) "Orange juice, certainly."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Don't tell me you've forsaken your beloved whisky and whiskies."
  • (Cary Grant) "No-no-no-no. I've just changed their colour, that's all. I'm going for the pale pastel shades now. They're more becoming of me. How about you, Mr. Connor? You drink, don't you; alcohol, I mean?"
  • (James Stewart) "Oh, a little."
  • (Cary Grant) "A little? And you a writer? Tsk, tsk, tsk. I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wives. You know, at one time I think I secretly wanted to be a writer."
  • (Cary Grant) "I'm sorry, but I thought I better hit you before he did. He's in better shape than I am."
  • (James Stewart) "Well you'll do."
  • (Cary Grant) "Hello friends and enemies."
  • (Roland Young) "Young man, remove yourself."
  • (Cary Grant) "How are you, sir?"
  • (Roland Young) "I don't know. Get along. Get along."
  • (Cary Grant) "Do you s'pose, sir, speaking of eye-openers?"
  • (Roland Young) "Oh, that's the first sane remark I've heard today. C'malong, Dexter, I know a formula that's said to pop the pennies off the eyelids of dead Irishmen."

John Howard as George Kittredge

  • (John Howard) "I'm going to build you an ivory tower with my own two hands."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Like fun you are."
  • (John Howard) "But a man expects his wife to --"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Behave herself. Naturally."
  • (Cary Grant) "To behave herself naturally."
  • (Cary Grant) "Sorry."
  • (John Howard) "You're like some marvelous, distant, well, queen, I guess. You're so cool and fine and always so much your own. There's a kind of beautiful purity about you, Tracy, like, like a statue."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "George --"
  • (John Howard) "Oh, it's grand, Tracy. It's what everybody feels about you. It's what I first worshipped you for from afar."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "I don't want to be worshipped. I want to be loved."
  • (John Howard) "Well, I suppose I should object to this twosome."
  • (Cary Grant) "That would be most objectionable."
  • (John Howard) "What's the matter, Bessie? You seem worried."
  • (Virginia Weidler) "Maybe that's because his name is Jack."

Virginia Weidler as Dinah Lord

  • (Virginia Weidler) "Do you know what I saw coming out of the woods?"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "I haven't the faintest idea, a skunk?"
  • (Virginia Weidler) "Oh, it won't rain. Tracy won't stand for it."

Roland Young as Uncle Willie

  • (Roland Young) "Must we ride in this thing? Wouldn't we be more comfortable on pogo sticks?"
  • (Roland Young) "Ah Ms. Embry, you're a vision of lovliness. May I offer you a cocktail? Or champagne?"
  • (Ruth Hussey) "Oh champagne, I've never had enough."
  • (Roland Young) "You will -- tonight."
  • (Roland Young) "Awww -- this is one of those days that the pages of history teach us are best spent lying in bed."
  • (Virginia Weidler) "What's wrong?"
  • (Roland Young) "Oh, nothing, nothing. My head just fell off, that's all."
  • (Roland Young) "Heigh Ho Silver."

Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord

  • (Katharine Hepburn) "English history has always facinated me. Cromwell, Robin Hood, Jack the Ripper. Where did he teach? You're father, I mean."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "My feet are made of clay. Made of clay, did you know? Good niiiggghhhttt little man."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Maid of honour?"
  • (Ruth Hussey) "Matron."
  • (Ruth Hussey) "Joe Smith, hardware department."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Hello, Dexter."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Hello, George."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Hello, Mike."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Golly -- Golly moses."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Oh Dexter you're not doing it just to soften the blow?"
  • (Cary Grant) "No."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Nor to save my face?"
  • (Cary Grant) "Oh, it's a nice little face."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Oh Dexter, I'll be yar now, I promise to be yar."
  • (Cary Grant) "Be whatever you like, you're my redhead."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Has your mind taken hold again, dear professor?"
  • (James Stewart) "Good thing, don't you agree?"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "No, professor."
  • (James Stewart) "Alright, lay off that "professor" stuff. Now, do you hear me?"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Yes, professor --"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "This is your Uncle Willy's favorite, Complete Surrender."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Only for the moment, I'm not interested in myself."
  • (Cary Grant) "Not interested in yourself, Red, you're fascinated. You're far and away your favorite person in the world."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "You hardly know him."
  • (Cary Grant) "To hardly know him is to know him well."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Do you like my dress, Dinah?"
  • (Virginia Weidler) "Oh, yes. Ever so much."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Feels awfully heavy."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "I'm going crazy. I'm standing here solidly on my own two hands and going crazy."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "South Bend, it sounds almost like dancing."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Hello you."
  • (James Stewart) "Hello."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "You look fine."
  • (James Stewart) "I feel fine."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Oh, we're going to talk about me again, are we? Goody."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "My, she was yar --"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "You're just a mass of prejudices, aren't you? You're so much thought and so little feeling, Professor."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "These stories are beautiful. Why, Mike, they're almost poetry."
  • (James Stewart) "Don't kid yourself, they are."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Aren't you coming Liz?"
  • (Ruth Hussey) "Well, it seems I've got to commit suicide first."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Dexter, say something."
  • (Cary Grant) "Well, I --"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Oh, Dexter, I'm such an unholy mess of a girl."
  • (Cary Grant) "Well, that's no good. That's not even conversation."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "How do I look?"
  • (John Halliday) "Like a queen. Like a goddess."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "And do you know how I feel?"
  • (John Halliday) "How?"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Like a human. Like a human being."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "The time to make up your mind about people is never."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Put me in your pocket, Mike."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "You're too good for me, George. You're a hundred times too good. And I'd make you most unhappy, most. That is, I'd do my best to."

Ruth Hussey as Elizabeth Imbrie

  • (Ruth Hussey) "What's this room? I've forgotten my compass."
  • (James Stewart) "I'd say, south-by-southwest parlor-by-living-room."
  • (Ruth Hussey) "Oh it's all right Tracy. We all go haywire at times and if we don't, maybe we ought to."
  • (Ruth Hussey) "There's a cousin, Joanna, who's definitely crazy."
  • (James Stewart) "Who told you that."
  • (Ruth Hussey) "Dinah."
  • (James Stewart) "Well Dinah would know."
  • (Ruth Hussey) "I remember your honeymoon quite well. You and she on a little sail boat, the "True Love", wasn't it?"
  • (Cary Grant) "Yes it was. How did you know?"
  • (Ruth Hussey) "I was the only photographer whose camera you didn't smash. You were terribly nice about it. You threw it in the ocean."
  • (James Stewart) "Oh, one of those."
  • (Cary Grant) "Yes I had the strange notion that our honeymoon was our own."
  • (Ruth Hussey) "Where's my wandering parakeet?"

Mary Nash as Margaret Lord

  • (Mary Nash) "We both might face the facts that neither of us has proved to be a very great success as a wife."
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "We just picked the wrong first husband."
  • (Mary Nash) "Oh, dear. Is there no such thing as privacy any more?"
  • (Katharine Hepburn) "Only in bed, mother, and not always there."
  • (Mary Nash) "The course of true love --"
  • (James Stewart) "-- gathers no moss."
  • (Mary Nash) "I think that dress hikes up a little behind --"
  • (Virginia Weidler) "No, it's me that does."
  • (Mary Nash) "Are you one of the musicians?"
  • (James Stewart) "No."
  • (Mary Nash) "Oh of course, you're Junius's friend. Only you're not. Do you have any violin strings?"
  • (James Stewart) "I have an aspirin. Will that work?"
  • (Mary Nash) "I don't think so. It's for a violin. Oh well, no matter."

Henry Daniell as Sidney Kidd

  • (Henry Daniell) "You hate me, I trust, Miss Imbrie."
  • (Ruth Hussey) "No, I-I can't afford to hate anybody. I'm only a photographer."
  • (Henry Daniell) "You really hate me, don't you Connor?"
  • (James Stewart) "Oh no."
  • (James Stewart) "I don't like you very much though."
  • (Henry Daniell) "I understand we understand each other."
  • (Henry Daniell) "Anyway, presented for the first time, quote: A wedding day inside mainline society."
  • (James Stewart) "Or what the kitchen maid saw through the keyhole. Unquote."

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