Elizabeth Taylor credited as playing...
Gloria Wandrous
- Gloria Wandrous: I think I'll get cleaned up and do my nails.
- Mrs. Fanny Thurber: Yes, sharpen them.
- Gloria Wandrous: For you, Mrs. Thurber, I would.
- Gloria Wandrous: You act like a man who's expecting his wife back in town.
- Weston Liggett: How did you know? Today?
- Gloria Wandrous: I always knew. Someday.
- Weston Liggett: Here I was, trying to find a way to - look, Gloria, I have to spend at least tonight with her.
- Gloria Wandrous: A good night's sleep will be the best thing for you.
- Gloria Wandrous: I spent the night with Steve's girlfriend, Norma.
- Mrs. Wandrous: Ah, isn't that nice! She knows a boy whose girlfriend is that unselfish!
- Mrs. Fanny Thurber: That's a girlfriend that won't have a boyfriend long.
- Gloria Wandrous: A compliment from you, Mrs. Thurber?
- Mrs. Fanny Thurber: I must have said it wrong.
- Gloria Wandrous: Command performances leave me quite cold. I've had more fun in the back seat of a '39 Ford than I could ever have in the vault of the Chase Manhattan Bank.
- Gloria Wandrous: Terrible, isn't it, Steve? I say "yes" too much when I shouldn't and you say "no" too much when you shouldn't.
- Norma: By the way, for the record, what did happen to your dress?
- Gloria Wandrous: Well, it's a funny thing. One minute it was there and the next minute it wasn't.
- Norma: Much like your virtue I presume.
- Weston Liggett: Why do you need a psychiatrist? I've never met anyone direct and uninhibited as you.
- Gloria Wandrous: Well, you know that Latin motto, SIC TRANSIT GLORIA? Well, I'm the Gloria, and in my case, the SIC is for real sick. I'm not too sure about the TRANSIT. I think it has something to do with my car.
- Gloria Wandrous: He made me so damn mad. He left me money, he actually left me *money*!
- [pause]
- Gloria Wandrous: Well what would you have done?
- Steve Carpenter: I don't know. You see my work is designed so that people *will* leave me money.
- Steve Carpenter: I hear he's a lush.
- Gloria Wandrous: A rumor of little mind. We did have a drink last night.
- Steve Carpenter: One?
- Gloria Wandrous: A dozen maybe.
- Gloria Wandrous: I always said I'd try anything once.
- Steve Carpenter: Ever try common sense?
- Gloria Wandrous: Only in desperation.
- Steve Carpenter: What does your analyst say about all this?
- Gloria Wandrous: Oh, I only tell Dr. Tredman what I think he ought to hear.
- Steve Carpenter: Oh, that's very intelligent.
- Gloria Wandrous: If I were intelligent, I wouldn't need a psychiatrist.
- Gloria Wandrous: Steve, listen to old Gloria. The greater the sacrifice you ask a woman to make for you the more she knows you love her. Honestly!
- Gloria Wandrous: What's my mother gonna think if I show up dressed like this?
- Steve Carpenter: Your mother knows everything about you.
- Gloria Wandrous: Yeah, that may be so, but we never admit it. I'm still her innocent little girl. And she's my dear, sweet cookie-baking mother.
- Steve Carpenter: So go home, give her an innocent smile and - have a cookie.
- Steve Carpenter: What's with you and Yale? Always Yale.
- Gloria Wandrous: It's the last college left.
- Steve Carpenter: What?
- Gloria Wandrous: I started with Amherst, and I worked my way through the alphabet to Yale. I'm stuck there. Of course, I could work backwards again.
- Gloria Wandrous: I hate to drink and run. To the three of us.
- Steve Carpenter: One for all, and all for one.
- Norma: The question is: which one?
- Norma: Just remember that suit has led a sheltered life. It shocks easily.
- Gloria Wandrous: Then it's time it had a little adventure.
- Weston Liggett: *Now* I get it. You pick the man. He doesn't pick you.
- Gloria Wandrous: Finally! Why I'm not teaching logic at Columbia, I'll never know.
- Weston Liggett: One moment. Postgraduate course. You also drop the man when you want to?
- Gloria Wandrous: And without a parachute.