Aunt Abby Quotes in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Teddy Brewster: [after charging up the stairs] Charge the blockhouse!

Reverend Harper: Blockhouse?

Aunt Abby: Yes. The stairs are always San Juan Hill.

Mortimer Brewster: You didn't want the reverend to see the body?

Aunt Abby: Well, not at tea. That wouldn't have been very nice.

Aunt Abby: [to Mortimer] Now, Mortimer, you behave. You're too old to be flying off the handle like this!

Mortimer Brewster: But there's a body in the window seat!

Aunt Abby: Yes, dear, we know.

Mortimer Brewster: You know?

Martha Brewster: Of course!

Aunt Abby: Yes, but it has nothing to do with Teddy. Now, Mortimer, you just forget about it. Forget you ever saw the gentleman.

Mortimer Brewster: Forget?

Aunt Abby: We never dreamed you'd peek.

Mortimer Brewster: What the...?