Quotes from The Philadelphia Story (1940)

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Roland Young
Uncle Willie: [hung over, moans as the pony cart Dinah's driving hits a bump]
Dinah Lord: What's wrong?
Uncle Willie: Oh, nothing, nothing. My head just fell off, that's all.
- Roland Young (as Uncle Willie) in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Roland Young
Uncle Willie: [hung over] Awww... this is one of those days that the pages of history teach us are best spent lying in bed.
- Roland Young (as Uncle Willie) in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Roland Young
Uncle Willie: [leering at Liz] Ah Ms. Embry, you're a vision of lovliness. May I offer you a cocktail? Or champagne?
Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Oh champagne, I've never had enough.
Uncle Willie: You will... tonight.
- Roland Young (as Uncle Willie) in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Roland Young
Uncle Willie: [watching Kittredge clumsily mount a horse] Heigh Ho Silver.
- Roland Young (as Uncle Willie) in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Roland Young
Uncle Willie: Must we ride in this thing? Wouldn't we be more comfortable on pogo sticks?
- Roland Young (as Uncle Willie) in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Katharine Hepburn
Dinah Lord: [describing her "dream" to Tracy] Do you know what I saw coming out of the woods?
Tracy Lord: I haven't the faintest idea, a skunk?

Virginia Weidler
Dinah Lord: Nothing ever possibly in the least ever happens here. Mother, how do you get smallpox?

Virginia Weidler
Dinah Lord: Oh, it won't rain. Tracy won't stand for it.

John Halliday
Seth Lord: What most wives fail to realize is that their husband's philandering has nothing whatever to do with them.
Tracy Lord: Oh? Then what has it to do with?
Seth Lord: A reluctance to go grow old, I think.
- John Halliday (as Seth Lord) in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

John Halliday
Seth Lord: You have everything it takes to make a lovely woman except the one essential: an understanding heart. And without that you might just as well be made of bronze.
- John Halliday (as Seth Lord) in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

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