My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Martha Aldrich

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• Mrs. Atherton : [as the phone rings]  Shall I answer the phone?

  Martha Aldrich : Oh, you might as well - that's why they ring it. When they don't want you to answer, that's when they don't ring.

  Mrs. Atherton : That's another thing - that sarcastic sarcasm of yours.

• Ken Morley : I've never had a woman reporter on my staff.

  Martha Aldrich : Well, I don't imagine one woman is going to ruin your paper.

  Ken Morley : One woman has ruined a lot of things more important than a paper.

• Mrs. Atherton : You'd live in that school if they'd let you.

  Martha Aldrich : I like to teach school.

  Mrs. Atherton : Nonsense. Nobody likes to teach school - anybody that isn't homely. I'll say this for you - you may be crazy, but you're not homely.

• Mrs. Atherton : Out in Nebraska, when they give a place a name, the name means something.

  Martha Aldrich : Lincoln was never in Nebraska, Aunt Lu, and yet that's the name of the capitol.

  Mrs. Atherton : He could have come if he wanted to - it was there.

• Martha Aldrich : You see, I not only don't know how to play bridge; I don't even know how to watch bridge.

  Ken Morley : Well, I wouldn't be surprised if getting away from bridge players keeps as many people occupied at night as playing bridge does.