Dolly "Gallagher" Levi Quotes in The Matchmaker (1958)

Dolly "Gallagher" Levi: Money is like the sun we walk under. It can kill or it can cure.

Dolly "Gallagher" Levi: Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow.

Dolly "Gallagher" Levi: Life is never quite interesting enough. You people who come to the movies know that. So I manage things a little. Nature isn't satisfactory, quite, and so it has to be corrected. So I put my hand in here and my hand in there.

Dolly "Gallagher" Levi: The very young are almost as smart as the very old, Cornelius. It's in the middle that you get in all the trouble.

Dolly "Gallagher" Levi: [after the two clerks emerge from under a table] Good heavens, who else is under there?