Quotes from Auntie Mame (1958)

10 quotes
Rosalind Russell
Mame Dennis: [to Patrick who has unleashed sunlight on a very hung-over Mame] Child, how can you see with all that light?
- Rosalind Russell (as Mame Dennis) in Auntie Mame (1958)

Rosalind Russell
Mame Dennis: That's a B. It's the first letter of a seven-letter word that means your late father.
- Rosalind Russell (as Mame Dennis) in Auntie Mame (1958)

Coral Browne
Gloria Upson: Miss Charles, I've just got to tell you how I adored you in "Mary of Scotland."
Vera Charles: Did you dear? That was Helen Hayes.
- Coral Browne (as Vera Charles) in Auntie Mame (1958)

Fred Clark
Dwight Babcock: [Angrily] I am going to turn this kid into a decent, God-fearing Christian if I have to break every bone in his body!
- Fred Clark (as Dwight Babcock) in Auntie Mame (1958)

Fred Clark
Dwight Babcock: For nine years, Mame Dennis Burnside, I have done everything in my power to protect this boy from your idiotic, cockeyed nincompoopery.
- Fred Clark (as Dwight Babcock) in Auntie Mame (1958)

Connie Gilchrist
Norah Muldoon: [to the electrical contractor regarding Vera Charles] It's the "First Lady of the American Thee-ayter" out cold in the guestroom. Ms. Charles don' live here. She does her drinkin' here and her passin' out here.
- Connie Gilchrist (as Norah Muldoon) in Auntie Mame (1958)

Coral Browne
Vera Charles: [to Mame regarding her loud, jingly bracelets] What the HELL have you got back there, reindeer?
- Coral Browne (as Vera Charles) in Auntie Mame (1958)

Peggy Cass
Agnes Gooch: [about her evening with Brian... that she can't remember] I lived. I gotta find out what to do now!
- Peggy Cass (as Agnes Gooch) in Auntie Mame (1958)

Rosalind Russell
[Patrick reads a list of words he doesn't understand]
Patrick Dennis: ...Neurotic, heterosexual...
Mame Dennis: Oh, my my my my, what an eager little mind.
[takes the list]
Mame Dennis: You won't need some of these words for months and months.
- Rosalind Russell (as Mame Dennis) in Auntie Mame (1958)

Rosalind Russell
[Pouring Agnes a drink]
Mame: This will calm you down.
Agnes Gooch: Oh, no! Spirits do the most horrible thing to me. I'm not the same person!
Mame: What's wrong with that?
Agnes Gooch: Will it mix with Dr. Pepper?
Mame: He'll love it! Drink!
- Rosalind Russell (as Mame Dennis) in Auntie Mame (1958)