Daisy Sage Quotes in The Animal Kingdom (1932)

Daisy Sage: Behold, the bridegroom cometh. And no oil for my lamp, as usual. A foolish virgin me. Oh, foolish anyway.

Daisy Sage: Goodbye, you, Tom Collier.

Tom Collier: Goodbye? Until when?

Daisy Sage: Doomsday, my darling.

Daisy Sage: You're a free man you know, Tommy, always have been with me, no questions asked, but oh, please, Mexico in June, together, because listen... No, don't look at me. Look in the other way.

[Takes a deep breath]

Daisy Sage: On the boat coming over, the sweetest small boy, about two, and I got crazy about him and I want one. I want one *badly*. So would you please be good enough to marry me?

Tom Collier: [Is startled and stands straight up]

Daisy Sage: Oh, you always said you wanted to and I wouldn't let you. Well, it isn't terribly serious, not a life sentence, you know, just for a little while if you like. Will be such a dirty trick on him if you didn't.

Tom Collier: I thought for a long time we have been out of page so far as... so far as...

Daisy Sage: Wanting each other goes?

Tom Collier: Well, haven't we?

Daisy Sage: Speak for yourself, Tom.

Tom Collier: You too, Daisy. You first, I think.

Daisy Sage: Well, it's true that side of it was never so much to us, not in comparison, not... well not after those first crazy months. But I... I thought that was natural. I was even glad. Glad that it was all our needs that held us together. So closely. Not a claim. Never a claim but so closely.

Daisy Sage: For all our big talk, we both still belong to the animal kingdom.

Daisy Sage: Job? Oh, the job! Oh, I gave that up last winter. A trifle, eh, shall we say, quixotic of me.

Daisy Sage: Why do you suppose she asked us out here, anyway? Just to prove we don't belong?

Joe Fiske: Oh, she isn't a bad sort. You know, I had quite a long talk with her tonight. She seems like a very nice, attractive woman.

Daisy Sage: Hmm, so did Delilah.