Quotes from A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

22 quotes
Linda Darnell
Lora Mae Hollingsway: I've got very definite ideas.
Porter Hollingsway: Like what?
Lora Mae Hollingsway: There's never been anybody in particular. Nobody special.
Porter Hollingsway: Plenty that wanted to, I'll bet.
Lora Mae Hollingsway: What do you think?
Porter Hollingsway: That you've been waiting for that one guy to come along.
Lora Mae Hollingsway: I got very definite ideas.
Porter Hollingsway: What's he got to be like, this one guy?
Lora Mae Hollingsway: Someone who wants to marry me more than anything else in the world.
Porter Hollingsway: You sure got wrong ideas about things.
Lora Mae Hollingsway: They may be wrong, but they're definite.
- Linda Darnell (as Lora Mae Hollingsway) in A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Linda Darnell
Lora Mae Hollingsway: It's late. I'd better be going home.
Porter Hollingsway: OK if I call you a cab?
Lora Mae Hollingsway: Beats walking in the snow.
- Linda Darnell (as Lora Mae Hollingsway) in A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Thelma Ritter
Sadie: Look, I don't teach you about teachin'. Don't teach me about ducks.
- Thelma Ritter (as Sadie Dugan) in A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Thelma Ritter
Sadie: The cap's out. Makes me look like a lamb chop with pants on.
- Thelma Ritter (as Sadie Dugan) in A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Thelma Ritter
Sadie: You oughtn't to run around like that. You'll get consumption.
- Thelma Ritter (as Sadie Dugan) in A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Celeste Holm
Addie Ross: She won't stay mad at him for long. She's too much in love. Pretty soon she'll be full of self-reproach. Ha ha! Women are so silly.
- Celeste Holm (as Addie Ross) in A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Ann Sothern
Rita Phipps: Pardon my fingers.
- Ann Sothern (as Rita Phipps) in A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Kirk Douglas
Rita Phipps: People in the show business, you know what I mean, those kind of people always drink scotch.
George Phipps: Well, I know what you mean, but I wish you wouldn't say it in radio English. "That kind", not "those kind".
Rita Phipps: There are men who say "those kind" who earn $100,000 dollars a year.
George Phipps: There are men who say "stick 'em up" who earn more. I don't expect to do either.
- Kirk Douglas (as George Phipps) in A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Paul Douglas
Porter Hollingsway: It's a man's world. Yeah! See something you want, go after it and get it! That's nature. It's why we're made strong and women weak. Strong conquer and provide for the weak. That's what a man's for! Teach our kids that, there'd be more men!
- Paul Douglas (as Porter Hollingsway) in A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Paul Douglas
Porter Hollingsway: Like my wife. Comes from an old Spanish family named Finney.
- Paul Douglas (as Porter Hollingsway) in A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

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