The Children's Hour (1961)

Miriam Hopkins: Mrs. Lily Mortar

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• Mrs. Lily Mortar : God will punish you.

  Martha : He's doing all right.

• Mrs. Lily Mortar : Don't think you're fooling me young lady. Any day that he's in the house is a bad day.

  Martha : Now, look! Let's give it up. I'm tired. I've been working since six o'clock this morning.

  Mrs. Lily Mortar : I know what I know. You can't stand them being together and you're taking out on me. Well, God knows what you'll do when they marry. Jealous. Jealous.

  Martha : Aunt Lily.

  Mrs. Lily Mortar : You've always had a jealous, possessive nature even as a child. If you had a friend, you'd be upset if she liked anybody else. And that's what's happening now! And it's unnatural. It's just as unnatural as it can be.

• Mrs. Lily Mortar : [about Mary]  Oh, what happened? Did she fall?

  Karen : No, I was disciplining her.

  Mrs. Lily Mortar : And you finally hit her?

• Mrs. Lily Mortar : Thoughtfulness and courtesy mean breeding and breeding is an excellent thing.

• Mrs. Lily Mortar : Evelyn. Evelyn. Can't you imagine yourself as Cleopatra talking to an asp?

• Martha : I'll give you what little money we have now.

  Mrs. Lily Mortar : You think I'd take your money? Oh, I'd rather scrub floors first.

  Martha : You'll change your mind after the first floor.

• Mrs. Lily Mortar : Oh, what a nasty thing to do! What a nasty thing.

• Mrs. Lily Mortar : Eavesdropping is something that nice young ladies just don't do.

• Mrs. Lily Mortar : I've worked my fingers to the bone for both of you. Yes, to the bone, to the very bone!

• Mrs. Lily Mortar : I do not aim for speed, Martha, I aim for perfection in life.

• Mrs. Lily Mortar : Now that Karen's getting married, Martha's in a frenzy of bad temper and she's taking it out on me. Friendship between women, yes. Nobody's had more friends than I. But not this insane devotion.