Corie Bratter Quotes in Barefoot in the Park (1967)

Corie Bratter: You're almost nearly perfect!

Paul Bratter: That's a rotten thing to say!

[after five non-stop, newlywed nights in a hotel room, as a packed lift door opens, to her new husband]

Corie Bratter: Thank you, Mr. Dooley. Next time you're in New York, just call me up.

Corie Bratter: [Looking arond Mr. Velasco's Apt] Isn't this wild? What do you think, Mother?

Ethel: I think I've broken some straps!

Corie Bratter: My divorce! When do I get my divorce!

Paul Bratter: How should I know? The marriage license hasn't even come in yet!

Victor Velasco: Does your husband work during the day?

Corie Bratter: Yes.

Victor Velasco: In an office?

Corie Bratter: Yes.

Victor Velasco: Good. I work at home during the day. Oh, I predict some interesting complications... am I making you nervous?

Corie Bratter: Very nervous.

Victor Velasco: Wonderful! Once a month I try to make pretty young girls nervous, just to keep my hand in!

Corie Bratter: Six days does not a week make.

Paul Bratter: What does that mean?

Corie Bratter: [pause] I don't know!

Victor Velasco: No, you said "Fly you have a waiter in my soup."

Corie Bratter: Well I did! He put his hand in my soup to get the fly out!

Victor Velasco: So what are you, a folk singer?

Corie Bratter: No, a wife!

Corie Bratter: Paul, I think I'm gonna be a lousy wife. But don't be angry with me. I love you very much - and I'm very sexy!

Corie Bratter: Hey!

[rattling a box]

Corie Bratter: what's in here, that sounds expensive?

Ethel: Now I think it's a broken clock.

Corie Bratter: [opening another box] Does this pot come with instructions?

Ethel: If I'd known about this apartment it would have come with hot coffee.

Corie Bratter: Mother. Oh, I love everything. But you've got to stop sending me presents. You should start spending your money on yourself.

Ethel: Oh... myself. What does a woman like me need living alone way out in New Jersey?

Corie Bratter: You could travel...

Ethel: Oh, travel. Alone. I read a story in the times. A middle-aged woman travelling alone fell off the deck of a ship. they never even discovered it 'til they got to france.

Corie Bratter: Mother, I promise you, if you ever fell off the deck of a ship, someone would know about it.