The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV Series)

Curious Cousin (1970)

Alice Ghostley: Cousin Harriet

Quotes 

• Cousin Harriet : [on the phone]  Now, Carolyn, you know me. I never intrude and I never impose. All you have to do is tell me I'm not welcome. Caroline. Carolyn? Oh, I thought we'd been cut off.

• Cousin Harriet : Tell me, Carolyn, are you really happy here?

  Carolyn Muir : Yes, very.

  Cousin Harriet : [disbelieving anyone could prefer country life to city life]  That's so like you - so brave, so stoic, never complaining.

  Carolyn Muir : Well, I AM very happy.

  Cousin Harriet : If you say so.

  Carolyn Muir : I say so because you keep asking.

• Cousin Harriet : No-no, no, I was wrong. I was wrong to come out here to this... this lonely outpost in civilization and... and tempt you with a glittering life and the big city.

  Carolyn Muir : Is no temptation.

  Cousin Harriet : [laughs]  Just like Joan of Arc - a beautiful martyr.

• Martha Grant : [Martha introduces Harriet to Capt. Gregg via his portrait]  The man himself.

  Cousin Harriet : That's him? Oh, my, he's a handsome devil.

  Martha Grant : And from all they say, the worst kind of a ladies man, heh-heh - or should I say the best kind?

  Cousin Harriet : Oh, I can believe it.

  Martha Grant : He built Gull Cottage and lived here. Quite a man, the Captain.

  Cousin Harriet : And, um, that must be quite a romance between him and Carolyn.

  Martha Grant : Romance?

  Cousin Harriet : Yes.

  Martha Grant : Well, it'd sure have to be a long distance one. The Captain died a hundred years ago.

  Cousin Harriet : Ah, ha-ha. A hundred years ago! She's been having a romance with a man who died a hundred years ago? Oh, that poor girl. That poor, poor girl. Oh!

• Cousin Harriet : Oh, Carolyn, why did the family ever let you leave Philadelphia?

• Cousin Harriet : Just a minute. Don't I know you from someplace?

  Claymore Gregg : Imposible. I've never been there, madam.

• Cousin Harriet : [meeting Claymore as Claymore]  I know. Without the beard you look exactly

  [to Carolyn] 

  Cousin Harriet : like your Capt. Gregg.

  Carolyn Muir : [laughing nervously]  Really? Well, what's so unusual about that? This is his twin brother, Claymore.

  Claymore Gregg : Yes, I look exactly like my twin brother.

  Cousin Harriet : Twin brother?

  Claymore Gregg : Identical. It got so that Mother used to diaper one of us twice.