Lady Gertrude Allwyn: My dear, I am an old woman. I have travelled at home and abroad, and NEVER, NEVER have I known any good to come out of a concertina.

- Alison Skipworth (as Lady Gertrude Allwyn) in The Princess Comes Across (1936)

Lady Gertrude Allwyn: The story is from a novel entitled Lavender and Old Lace, but the name of the cinema has been changed to... um... She Done Him Plenty.

- Alison Skipworth (as Lady Gertrude Allwyn) in The Princess Comes Across (1936)

Lady Gertrude Allwyn: What is that?
Princess Olga: Why it's one of those things, you know, one of those come-to-you go-from-you things.
Lady Gertrude Allwyn: A concertina. And very vulgar. A definite symbol of the lower classes. Put the thing on the floor and it crawls.

- Alison Skipworth (as Lady Gertrude Allwyn) in The Princess Comes Across (1936)