A Woman of Distinction (1950)

Edmund Gwenn: Mark 'J.M.' Middlecott

Quotes 

• Mark 'J.M.' Middlecott : Oh, Susan, dear, just a minute. You don't want to leave without your weapon.

  [Handing her purse to her] 

• Mark 'J.M.' Middlecott : It's too bad that two nice people, like you, who should get together, get together and then don't get together.

  Prof. Alec Stevenson : Well you see, your daughter isn't very get together-able. One might say she's a bit of an icicle.

  Mark 'J.M.' Middlecott : You know what the Greek philosophers say about icicles? Today's icicle may be tomorrow's hot water.

• Mark 'J.M.' Middlecott : No, you look like a woman but that's where the resemblance ends. You talk like an encyclopedia. You think like a dictionary. You're, uh...