Scarlett Johansson credited as playing...
Meg Windermere
- Meg Windermere: Can you imagine what people would say?
- Mrs. Erlynne: Well, if we're always guided by other people's thoughts what's the point of having our own?
- Meg Windermere: How could he?
- Contessa Lucchino: Every man is born truthful and every man dies a liar. Now whatever you do you mustn't make a scene. It's too unpleasant and you waste energy.
- Meg Windermere: No, of course not. I wouldn't.
- Contessa Lucchino: Crying is the refuge of plain women.
- [smiling brightly]
- Contessa Lucchino: Pretty women go shopping.
- Mrs. Erlynne: I need an opinion from home. Now be honest. Would you wear it?
- Meg Windermere: Well, it doesn't leave much to the imagination, does it?
- Mrs. Erlynne: That depends on the imagination. Some men have more than others.
- Meg Windermere: I'm going to tell him the truth.
- Mrs. Erlynne: What you did is your mistake. Your sack of bricks. You carry it. You don't confess and hand it off to someone who loves you.
- Contessa Lucchino: You mustn't take it personally. Mrs. Erlynne is one of those women that attract men like a bee to a flame. Eh?
- Meg Windermere: A moth.
- Contessa Lucchino: Bee to a moth. Mmm.
- Meg Windermere: I swear on my mother.
- Mrs. Erlynne: Pardon?
- Meg Windermere: She's my guardian angel. My whole life I wanted to be like her.
- Mrs. Erlynne: I'm sure she wouldn't hold you to such a standard.
- Meg Windermere: She'd be so ashamed of me now.
- Mrs. Erlynne: We all straddle the abyss, Mrs Windemere. If we never look down, how can we know who we are? A mother could never be ashamed of a daughter who didn't fall in.