Gail Patrick credited as playing...
Cornelia Bullock
- Alexander Bullock: I've just been going over last month's bills, and I find that you people have confused me with the Treasury Department.
- Cornelia Bullock: Oh, don't start that again, Dad.
- Alexander Bullock: I don't mind giving the government 60% of what I make. But I can't do it when my family spends 50%!
- Irene: Well, why should the government get more money than your own family?
- Cornelia Bullock: You can't go on like this forever. You really like me and you're afraid to admit it, aren't you?
- Godfrey: You want me to tell you what I REALLY think of you?
- Cornelia Bullock: Please do.
- Godfrey: As Smith or as a butler?
- Cornelia Bullock: Choose your own weapon.
- Godfrey: You won't hold it against me?
- Cornelia Bullock: It's your day off.
- Godfrey: Very well. You belong to that unfortunate category that I would call the "Park Avenue brat." A spoiled child who's grown up in ease and luxury, who's always had her own way, and whose misdirected energies are so childish that they hardly deserve the comment, even of a butler on his off Thursday.
- Cornelia Bullock: [hurt and angry] Thank you for a very lovely portrait.
- [Irene poses dramatically]
- Cornelia Bullock: Oh, I remember that pose so well. I learned it in Dramatics School. It's Number 8 isn't it?
- Faithful George: Yep, that's Number 8 all right.
- Cornelia Bullock: Am I spoiling your act, dear?
- Irene: [under her breath to Cornelia] I'll spoil something of yours someday and it won't be your act!
- Cornelia Bullock: Will you do me a big favor?
- Faithful George: Who do you want killed?
- Cornelia Bullock: I'll do my own killing.
- Cornelia Bullock: So Little Red Riding Hood didn't have enough feminine charm to trap a wolf her own age, so she falls in love with a butler and lives happily ever after on an ash pile. If you know what I mean.
- Irene: I know what you mean, if you know what *I* mean.
- Carlo: [entering the room] May I come in?
- Cornelia Bullock: You're in, aren't you?
- Carlo: Very interesting book. The Greeks of the Middle Ages.
- Cornelia Bullock: Oh, Irene would like that. You love the middle ages, don't you, dear?
- Cornelia Bullock: I'd hate to see you made the laughing stock of Boston...
- Godfrey: I would hate to see anyone made a laughing stock anywhere.
- Cornelia Bullock: Little Red Riding Hood didn't have enough charm to trap a wolf of her own age, so she falls in love with the butler and lives happily ever after on an ashpile, if you know what I mean.
- Irene: I know, if you know what I mean.