Tacey King: Mr. Belvedere, is there anything you haven't been?
Lynn Belvedere: Yes, Mrs. King - I've never been an idler or a parasite.

- Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty (1948)

Lynn Belvedere: I am, in my way, a philosopher.
Harry King: Oh, I see, you just sit and think.
Lynn Belvedere: Mr. King, if more people just sat and thought, the world might not be in the stinking mess that it is.

- Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty (1948)

Lynn Belvedere: Intoxication is a form of escape often sought by the mentally immature.

- Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty (1948)

Lynn Belvedere: Mrs. King, as I told you last night, I dislike children intensely and yours, if I may say so, have peculiarly repulsive habits and manners.

- Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty (1948)

Lynn Belvedere: Mrs. King, I happen to dislike all children intensely. But I can assure you that I can readily attend to their necessary though unpleasant wants.

- Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty (1948)

Harry King: You know, Mrs. King, it's really all your fault.
Tacey King: Hnh?
Harry King: If you weren't so darned pretty, we wouldn't have so many kids for people to sit with.

- Robert Young in Sitting Pretty (1948)