Quiet Wedding (1941)

Marjorie Fielding: Janet's Mother

Quotes 

• Janet's Mother : [Adjusting her hat in the mirror]  Why is it that when I pay 12 and 11 for a hat, it's a success and I wear it for years; and I pay three guineas I can never wear it at all?

  Aunt Mary : Expensive hats look all right in the shop and all wrong when you get them home. I think they must fake the millers.

• Janet's Brother Denys : Here's another monstros... I mean present.

  Janet's Mother : A centerpiece. Lovely. Who sent it?

  Janet's Brother Denys : [Reading the card]  "With love to dear, dear Janet, and may she have blessed happiness. From Auntie Polly and Uncle George." I wonder who gave it to them.

• Janet's Mother : This is John's Flower, eh heh, fiancée, I mean.

• Flower Lisle : Do you mind if I hang my own pictures on the wall? I'm never happy without my pictures.

  Janet's Mother : No, if you can manage with the nails that are there.

  Flower Lisle : Oh, that's perfectly all right. I brought some special little wall pins. They leave no marks.

• Flower Lisle : Oh, that's perfectly all right. It's the mental attitude that counts. I should be comfortable in a pig sty.

  Janet's Mother : Oh, heh, heh, then you should be quite all right in Marcia's room.

• Janet's Mother : But I don't want to gain a daughter.

  Janet's Father : No?

  Janet's Mother : No Two's quite enough.

• Janet's Mother : Thank goodness the vicar's gone. Such a nice man. So tactless.

• Janet's Mother : This is my husband, John's father, of course.

  Flower Lisle : Why of course?

  Janet's Father : Why, indeed. But I am, supposedly.