Murder by Invitation (1941)

Sarah Padden: Cassandra 'Cassie' Denham

Quotes 

• Garson Denham : [trying to prove Cassandra is mentally incompetent]  Will you please explain to the court just why you put vinegar on your apple pies?

  Aunt Cassandra Hildegarde Denham : Gladly.

  [points to the cook] 

  Aunt Cassandra Hildegarde Denham : That fat cook of mine makes them too sweet, she's done it for years, she wants to put weight on me.

  [the whole court laughs, the cook especially] 

• Aunt Cassandra Hildegarde Denham : If you're ever around, stop in for some apple pie

  [whispers] 

  Aunt Cassandra Hildegarde Denham : without vinegar.

  Judge Moore : Thank you, maybe I'll do that... but I like vinegar on my apple pies.

  [Cassie laughs] 

• Aunt Cassandra Hildegarde Denham : Trowbridge Montrose, what were you doing snooping around outside my window at 1 o' clock in the morning?

  Trowbridge Cadwallader Montrose : I was walking through my garden, I always walk through my garden at 1 o' clock in the morning.

• Trowbridge Cadwallader Montrose : Have they found out who the killer is yet, Cassie?

  Aunt Cassandra Hildegarde Denham : If they haven't, then my bath water's getting cold for nothing.

• Mary Denham : Don't you worry about a thing, Aunt Cassie.

  Aunt Cassandra Hildegarde Denham : Why should I worry? I'm the only sane person in a family of nitwits.

• Sheriff William Boggs : Murder cases take time. I've got to do a lot of deducting.

  Aunt Cassandra Hildegarde Denham : Deducting. You sound like a millionaire making out his income tax.