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Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas, and Margaret Sullavan in The Shining Hour (1938)

Quotes

The Shining Hour

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  • Judy Linden: Hannah's quoting the bible again. One of these days we're going to put her in all the hotel rooms.
  • Henry Linden: [Sarcastically] Hannah, why don't you have all your teeth pulled out? It sometimes helps.
  • Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden: [to Henry] If only I liked you a little less and loved you a little more.
  • Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden: I, uh, wish Judy had been able to ride with us. I like her.
  • David Linden: She adores you.
  • Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden: I detest women as a rule. I know too much about them.
  • Henry Linden: [walking into the library and turning on the lights to discover a couple kissing on a couch] Bookworms.
  • David Linden: Friends of yours?
  • Henry Linden: Friends of each other, I hope.
  • Judy Linden: Oh, and if they show any immediate tendency to break an important commandment, whistle, will you?
  • Judy Linden: Oh, your maid got in this morning... she has already been chased by bulls.
  • Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden: Well, don't worry about Belvedere; by tomorrow she'll be chasing them!
  • Henry Linden: [Referring to Maggie] Hannah, isn't she all I said?
  • Hannah Linden: [Cattily] I'm sure she is, Henry, and more.
  • David Linden: Stop talking about Henry and you and your rotten little house!
  • Hannah Linden: Coffee, David?
  • David Linden: I don't want any.
  • Hannah Linden: You should. You've had no sleep.
  • David Linden: I'm quite aware of that, Hannah. I don't want any coffee. I tell ya I don't want any!
  • Hannah Linden: David!
  • David Linden: Oh stop Daviding me. Minding other people's business. That's what's wrong with you, you haven't enough of your own. Well I'll give you some!
  • [picks coffee cup up and smashes it on the floor]
  • David Linden: There, get busy with that. Lots of little pieces, Hannah, just for you. Try to put them together again. We'll all be busy doing that!
  • Benny Collins: [to Maggie] If I ever get a decent horn, I'll have a band of my own in a year.
  • Hannah Linden: Let it burn. It needs to burn!
  • Hannah Linden: It's the fires of hell, Henry, and you can't put it out!
  • David Linden: Now you're just being cheap.
  • Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden: I am rather cheap. Have you only just realised it?
  • Henry Linden: Uh, Wisconsin's pretty famous for its potatoes.
  • Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden: Ohh, I haven't eaten one in 7 years.
  • Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden: You're a funny kind of farmer, David. Do you like it?
  • David Linden: [as he plays the piano] Some of the time.
  • Olivia 'Maggie' Riley Linden: And the rest of the time?
  • David Linden: I hate it.
  • [stops playing piano]
  • David Linden: But I've been that way always about everything. I want what I haven't got, and I'm bored with what I have. But I've stopped wondering about it. I just call myself a neurotic.
  • [chuckles]
  • Hannah Linden: I'm sorry, Judy. My intentions were good.
  • Judy Linden: Yes, I'm sure they were, Hannah. It's just that you were born with a strong sense of interference, and I'm... afraid you'll die with one.
  • Hannah Linden: [to Henry] A woman's love should only go one way, to one man. There are women whose love reaches out to every man, like the tongues of a fire that capture and consume. Send her away, Henry, before she destroys us all!
  • [referring to Olivia]
  • Judy Linden: Belvedere is gonna come in mighty handy this spring. We won't need that new tractor.
  • Henry Linden: What in the name of Linden brings you here?
  • David Linden: The name of Linden, Henry.

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