Quiet Wedding (1941)

Athene Seyler: Aunt Mary

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.

• Aunt Mary : And when you get her back, give us a surprise and don't wash until after dinner.

• Marcia's Husband : [Entering a bedroom window]  Mrs. Jardow, I do so apologize. I thought Marcia was sleeping in the guest room.

  Aunt Mary : Well, you couldn't have chosen a more civilized way of announcing yourself?

• Aunt Mary : Come on and apologize.

  Marcia's Husband : But, I don't know what to apologize for.

  Aunt Mary : Well, don't apologize for anything in particular, just apologize.

• Aunt Mary : Now, listen to me. Every day, twice a day, for the rest of your life, you've got to tell here these two things. A - that you love her. And, B - that she's beautiful. Run along and begin now. Don't let her talk until you've been making love to her for at least half an hour. Get her alone somewhere.

• Aunt Mary : Now, young man, listen to me. I know more about the workings of a female mind than you will ever know.

• Aunt Mary : You know, if you go on behaving like the correct English gentleman, there'll be no wedding. Abduct her!