Captain Gregg Quotes in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

Lucy Muir: [referring to her romance with Miles Fairley] You, yourself, said I should mix with people, that I should see... men.

Captain Gregg: I said men, not perfumed parlor snakes!

Captain Gregg: Confound it, madam, my language is most controlled. And as for me morals, I lived a man 's life and I'm not ashamed of it; and, I can assure you no woman's ever been the worse for knowing me - and I'd like to know how many mealy-mouthed bluenoses can say the same.

Captain Gregg: My dear, never let anyone tell you to be ashamed of your figure!

Captain Gregg: [discussing Mr. Fairley] And the way he was smirking at you, like a cat in the fishmonger's! You should have slapped his face!

Lucy Muir: Why? I found him... rather charming!

Captain Gregg: "Rather charming!" Now you're starting to talk like him!

Lucy Muir: How in blazes do you want me to talk?

Captain Gregg: That's better!

Lucy Muir: He took me unaware!

Captain Gregg: [laughs] My dear, since Eve picked the apple, no woman 's ever been taken entirely unawares.

Lucy Muir: It's no crime to be alive!

Captain Gregg: No, my dear, sometimes it's a great inconvenience. The living can be hurt.

Lucy Muir: I don't know anything about the sea, except that it is romantic.

Captain Gregg: Hmm. That's what all landsmen think. Seamen know better.

Lucy Muir: Then why do they go to sea?

Captain Gregg: Because they haven't the sense to stay ashore.

Eva, Sister-in-law: [of the Captain's portrait] And what a hideous painting!

Captain Gregg: [inaudible to her] Anyone with a face like yours, madam, should steer clear of expressing such opinions!

Lucy Muir: I wish you wouldn't swear. It's so ugly.

Captain Gregg: If you think that's ugly, it's a good thing you can't read me thoughts!

Captain Gregg: Blasted women. *Always* make trouble when you allow one aboard...