Film Quotes by Monty Woolley
10 quotes
Year: 1942
Director:
William Keighley
Director:
William Keighley
Sheridan Whiteside:
And now, will you all now leave quietly, or must I ask Miss Cutler to pass among you with a baseball bat?
--
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
Year: 1942
Director:
William Keighley
Director:
William Keighley
Sheridan Whiteside:
Get your fish-hooks off me!
--
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
Year: 1942
Director:
William Keighley
Director:
William Keighley
Sheridan Whiteside:
Go in and read the life of Florence Nightingale and learn how unfitted you are for your chosen profession.
--
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
Year: 1942
Director:
William Keighley
Director:
William Keighley
Sheridan Whiteside:
I simply will not sit down to dinner with midwestern barbarians, I think too highly of my digestive system.
Maggie Cutler: Harry Clarke is one of your oldest friends.
Sheridan Whiteside: My stomach is an older one.
Maggie Cutler: And Mrs. Stanley is president of the women's club.
Sheridan Whiteside: I wouldn't care if she was the whole cabinet.
Maggie Cutler: Harry Clarke is one of your oldest friends.
Sheridan Whiteside: My stomach is an older one.
Maggie Cutler: And Mrs. Stanley is president of the women's club.
Sheridan Whiteside: I wouldn't care if she was the whole cabinet.
--
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
Year: 1942
Director:
William Keighley
Director:
William Keighley
Sheridan Whiteside:
Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?
--
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
Year: 1942
Director:
William Keighley
Director:
William Keighley
Sheridan Whiteside:
My great aunt Jennifer ate a whole box of candy every day of her life. She lived to be 102, and when she had been dead three days, she looked better than you do now.
--
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
Year: 1942
Director:
William Keighley
Director:
William Keighley
Sheridan Whiteside:
Strange? She's right out of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
--
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
Year: 1942
Director:
William Keighley
Director:
William Keighley
Sheridan Whiteside:
This ageing debutante, Mr. Jefferson, I retain in my employ only because she is the sole support of her two-headed brother!
--
Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
Year: 1944
Director:
John Cromwell*Edward F. Cline*Tay Garnett*David O. Selznick
Director:
John Cromwell*Edward F. Cline*Tay Garnett*David O. Selznick
Colonel William G. Smollett:
[studying a map] Wettookit. Wettookit. You must have the name wrong.
Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: No. Here it is in Pop's letter. "Now, we're here in Texas on maneuvers... in a little town called Wettookit. We came, we saw, we took it!"
Colonel William G. Smollett: "We took it." Very funny. I would appreciate it, my dear Bridget, if in the future you could spare me from your father's elaborate puns.
Bridget 'Brig' Hilton: No. Here it is in Pop's letter. "Now, we're here in Texas on maneuvers... in a little town called Wettookit. We came, we saw, we took it!"
Colonel William G. Smollett: "We took it." Very funny. I would appreciate it, my dear Bridget, if in the future you could spare me from your father's elaborate puns.
--
Monty Woolley
(as Colonel William G. Smollett)
in
Since You Went Away
(1944)
Year: 1944
Director:
John Cromwell*Edward F. Cline*Tay Garnett*David O. Selznick
Director:
John Cromwell*Edward F. Cline*Tay Garnett*David O. Selznick
Colonel William G. Smollett:
And I might have had that wonderful child as a granddaughter. Bill was fortunate to have known her.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Bill deserved her. He was such a good boy.
Colonel William G. Smollett: Yes, I dare say. The good die first. And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn to the socket.
Mrs. Anne Hilton: Bill deserved her. He was such a good boy.
Colonel William G. Smollett: Yes, I dare say. The good die first. And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn to the socket.
--
Monty Woolley
(as Colonel William G. Smollett)
in
Since You Went Away
(1944)