Film Quotes by Olivia de Havilland

Miriam: [Arriving at Charlotte's house] They say places you knew as a child always seem smaller than your memory of them. It's not true!

Miriam: What is it that you don't believe Drew? That I'm here, or that I look the way I do?

Miriam: You just can't keep hogs away from the trough, can you?
Velma Cruther: I just come for my things.
Miriam: Is my cousin one of your things?

Mrs. Hilyard: [slowly realizing] Oh, dear Lord... I am... a monster!

Mrs. Hilyard: I am a human being. A feeling, thinking, human being.
Randall: [mocking] Okay. I am *all* animal. Sure beats the hell outta being an inmate...
Mrs. Hilyard: [shudders] ... inmate?... Asylum?

Mrs. Hilyard: When will we go back to the gods of our childhood?

Virginia Stuart Cunningham: It was strange, here I was among all those people, and at the same time I felt as if I were looking at them from some place far away, the whole place seemed to me like a deep hole and the people down in it like strange animals, like... like snakes, and I've been thrown into it... yes... as though... as though I were in a snake pit...
Doctor Mark Kik: A snake pit?
Virginia Stuart Cunningham: Later, weeks later, I understood. I remembered once reading in a book that long ago they used to put insane people into pits full of snakes. I think they figured that something which might drive a normal person insane, might shock an insane person back into sanity. Did you ever hear of that?
Doctor Mark Kik: Yes.
Virginia Stuart Cunningham: Well, it was just as though they'd thrown me into a snake pit. And I was shocked into thinking that maybe I wasn't as sick as the others... and I really might get well.

Celia Sommerville: And we're so crowded already. I just don't know where it's all gonna end!
Virginia Stuart Cunningham: I'll tell you where it's gonna end, Miss Somerville... When there are more sick ones than well ones, the sick ones will lock the well ones up.

Robert Cunningham: Tell me what have you been doing all these months?
Virginia Stuart Cunningham: Working 18 hours a day and being lonely 24.

Wade Hatton: You know, out here the trail boss has sometimes even got to take the law into his own hands.
Abbie Irving: Oh, yes, pioneering I believe you call it, don't you?