Caroline Lord Quotes in High Society (1956)

Caroline Lord: What's this?

[holds up a weird silver object]

Mrs. Lord: I don't know dear.

Caroline Lord: It stinks.

Mrs. Lord: Caroline, don't say stinks. If absolutely necessary, smells, but only if absolutely necessary.

Caroline Lord: Mother, don't you think it's stinking of Tracy not to invite father to the wedding?

Mrs. Lord: Yes, just between us, I think it's good and stinking.

Caroline Lord: Dexter, are you ever going to get married again?

Dexter: Sure I am, I'm just waiting for you to grow up.

Caroline Lord: Oh Dexter, for you I'll hurry.

Dexter: You're gonna have to.

Caroline Lord: Dexter? This is Caroline.

Dexter: Hello, beautiful!

Caroline Lord: Any time now.

Caroline Lord: Tracy, it's your song! Dexter must be home.

Tracy: Mother, has Dexter come back?

Mrs. Lord: Well, we knew he was giving his house over to the jazz festival, maybe he has come back.

Tracy: He's back. No-one else would play that song. That cheap, vulgar, dreadful song.

Caroline Lord: That beautiful, wonderful song he wrote especially for her? That's gratitude.