Quotes about Engagements

David Huxley: Yes, but I have to go to Carnegie Hall to meet Miss Swallow.
Susan Vance: Miss Swallow?
David Huxley: Yes, I'm engaged to Miss Swallow.
Susan Vance: Engaged -- to -- be -- married?
David Huxley: That's right.
Susan Vance: Oh that's nice. Then she won't mind waiting, will she?

- Katharine Hepburn (as Susan Vance) in Bringing up Baby (1938)

Susan Vance: What would you say about a man who follows a girl around and then when she talks to him, he fights with her?
Dr. Fritz Lehman: Is the young man your fiancee?
Susan Vance: Oh no. I don't know him. I never even saw him before today. No, he just follows me around and fights with me.

- Katharine Hepburn (as Susan Vance) in Bringing up Baby (1938)

Ellen Wagstaff Arden: Oh, isn't that lovely! Isn't that a lovely thing! Engagement present?
Bianca Bates: Yes.
Ellen Wagstaff Arden: Umhum, I used to have one exactly like it. Exactly!

- Irene Dunne (as Ellen Arden) in My Favorite Wife (1940)

Constance 'Connie' Milligan: Call Mr. Pendagast, Charile??? (Mr. Pendagast is her fiance)
Joe Carter: Sure, why not?
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: Of course you don't realize that Mr. Pendagast is the type man who has twice been to the White House for dinner.

- Jean Arthur (as Connie Milligan) in The More the Merrier (1943)

Joe: Jerry, Jerry, will you take my advice? Forget about the whole thing, will ya? Just keep telling yourself: you're a boy, you're a boy.
Jerry: I'm a boy.
Joe: That's the boy.
Jerry: I'm a boy. I'm a boy. I wish I were dead. I'm a boy. Boy, oh boy, am I a boy. Now, what am I gonna do about my engagement present?
Joe: What engagement present?
Jerry: Osgood gave me a bracelet.
Joe: [takes it and inspects the stones with Beinstock's glasses] Hey, these are real diamonds!
Jerry: Of course they're real! What do you think? My fiance is a bum?

- Jack Lemmon (as Jerry/Daphne) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Jerry: Have I got things to tell you!
Joe: What happened?
Jerry: I'm engaged.
Joe: Congratulations. Who's the lucky girl?
Jerry: I am!

- Jack Lemmon (as Jerry/Daphne) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: [after hearing about Rebecca's engagement with Maxim] Tennis lessons my foot!

- Florence Bates (as Mrs. Van Hopper) in Rebecca (1940)

Aunt Cora: Hattie, have you ever been married?
Hattie: No Ma'am, but I been engaged.
Aunt Cora: Oh, just as good.
Hattie: No Ma'am... it's a lot better.

- Hattie McDaniel (as Hattie) in Carefree (1938)

Dr. Lanyon: Perhaps you're forgetting, you're engaged to Muriel.
Dr. Jekyll: Forgotten it? Can a man dying of thirst forget water? And do you know what would happen to that thirst if it were to be denied water?
Dr. Lanyon: If I understand you correctly, you sound almost indecent.
Dr. Jekyll: What names you give things!

- Fredric March (as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde) in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

Joe: Jerry, Jerry, will you take my advice? Forget about the whole thing, will ya? Just keep telling yourself: you're a boy, you're a boy.
Jerry: I'm a boy.
Joe: That's the boy.
Jerry: I'm a boy. I'm a boy. I wish I were dead. I'm a boy. Boy, oh boy, am I a boy. Now, what am I gonna do about my engagement present?
Joe: What engagement present?
Jerry: Osgood gave me a bracelet.
Joe: [takes it and inspects the stones with Beinstock's glasses] Hey, these are real diamonds!
Jerry: Of course they're real! What do you think? My fiance is a bum?

- Jack Lemmon (as Jerry/Daphne) in Some Like It Hot (1959)