- Donald 'Don' Marshall: I understand discretion is your middle name.
- Bretherton, the Butler: Mr. Marshall, if butlers told all they knew, society would be a shambles.
- Granny O'Dare: [to Irene, about the dress shop customers] Don't forget that sometimes the grandest people are the greatest riff-raff.
- Irene O'Dare: Granny - am I an O'Dare?
- Granny O'Dare: Sure you are, what of it?
- Irene O'Dare: Haven't you always told me the O'Dares have second sight?
- Michael: [playing a concertina] Second sight - that's all hooey.
- Granny O'Dare: You think about what you understand, Michael O'Dare! Hooey, is it? Let me tell you something. Brian O'Malley's wife - she was born an O'Dare. The day her husband died, saw his body floating in the air without a head...
- [waves her arm]
- Michael: How did she know it was her husband if he didn't have a head?
- Granny O'Dare: Aw, you -
- [shoves his head, causing the concertina to let out a sharp note]
- Granny O'Dare: [while Irene is showing Granny a ball gown that Mr. Smith gave her] Well, now, just as a matter of curiosity, what would a dress like that be costing?
- Irene O'Dare: Oh, $450.
- Granny O'Dare: Glory be.
- [puts her hand to her face]
- Michael: [annoyed] 450 bucks? I could see over 200 ball games in box seats for that, and a girl puts it on her back in a *dress.*
- Bob Vincent: [Bretherton presents a glass of brandy to Bob] What's that?
- Bretherton, the Butler: A stiff brandy, sir. I've been through a great many weddings, and I've always found there comes a time when the bridegroom *needs* a stiff brandy.
- Bob Vincent: [takes the glass] Bretherton, you know everything.
- Bretherton, the Butler: Yes, sir. I'm glad you noticed.
- The Gardener: Hey, what's the idea? You're supposed to be around at the tradesman's entrance.
- Sam - Wrong-Way Driver: Don't tell me. Tell Miss O'Dare. She knows everything.
- Bretherton, the Butler: [Pouring champagne for Mr. Smith and himself] In some houses, you know, sir, this is just a common luxury. In this house, it's a necessity.
- Mr. Smith: This is, uh, one of our modest little sitting rooms.
- Mrs. Vincent: Well, one doesn't expect much from a sitting room, does one?
- Sam - Wrong-Way Driver: I tell you, we oughta be around the tradesman's entrance.
- Irene O'Dare: Don't make me laugh. Can you image Mrs. Herman Vincent in the kitchen? This has to be delivered to her personally.
- Irene O'Dare: Granny, you don't see...
- Granny O'Dare: Oh, no, I don't see. I've only lived for 76 years keeping my eyes wide open.
- Mrs. Vincent: A family tree, Marie, that shows that Mr. Vincent's family were founded by Neville... . He came over with William the Conqueror, you know.
- Donald 'Don' Marshall: How many things have I put money in with you already? There's a dog-racing scheme.
- Bob Vincent: Well, how was I to know they were gonna put a ban on dog racing?
- Donald 'Don' Marshall: Then there's the company for importing caviar. Of course, that year, the sturgeon just decided not to lay any eggs.
- Bob Vincent: Well, it was a wet season.
- Irene O'Dare: Sam, have you noticed something? All the traffic seems to be going the wrong way.
- Sam - Wrong-Way Driver: It, it's us. You and your family ghost stories.
- Mrs. Vincent: How often have I told you, Marie, not to speak French to me before noon?
- Vincent's Maid: Pardon, madame.
- Donald 'Don' Marshall: Well, how would you like a job modeling dresses for Madame Lucy?
- Irene O'Dare: How would you like a job shoveling up gold in the street?
- Donald 'Don' Marshall: Eh, heh, heh, I'm serious.
- Irene O'Dare: So am I - modeling dresses, why I couldn't get a job like that unless I had a pull.
- Donald 'Don' Marshall: Well, I have a certain amount of pull.
- Irene O'Dare: Well, he wasn't exactly what you'd call a drinking man; but when they gave him alcohol for medicine, it was no great surprise to his system.
- Donald 'Don' Marshall: A dress maker, of all the comic things to get mixed up in.
- Bob Vincent: Oh, but she's not a dress maker. She's an institution.
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