Katherine MacGregor credited as playing...
Harriet Oleson
- Mrs. Oleson: [to her husband, who is holding a shotgun, when they catch daughter Nellie with her new husband] Nels - make her a WIDOW!
- Mrs. Oleson: [after an argument] Mrs. Ingalls, we will not be requiring any more eggs in the immediate future.
- Caroline: Mrs. Oleson, the hens will be RELIEVED to hear that!
- Mrs. Oleson: Nels, are you going to miss me?
- Nelson "Nels" Oleson: [mutters] Like a crutch.
- Mrs. Oleson: What did you say?
- Nelson "Nels" Oleson: I said, "very much."
- Mrs. Oleson: My back is killing me again...
- Nelson "Nels" Oleson: [doing inventory on his shoes] ... and again, and again...
- Mrs. Oleson: What did you say?
- Nelson "Nels" Oleson: I'm just counting these shoe sizes dear. And a ten and a ten, four sizes.
- Mrs. Oleson: You disgraced me in front of the town.
- Reverend Robert Alden: [trying to heal their broken marriage] Please - there must be forgiveness!
- Nelson "Nels" Oleson: Don't talk to me about forgiveness 'til you lived with a woman like that!
- Mrs. Oleson: Tsk!
- [both of them leave the church]
- Mrs. Oleson: If God wanted me to talk with my hands, he wouldn't have given me a mouth.
- Nelson "Nels" Oleson: I guess even God can make mistakes!