Edith Potter Quotes in The Women (1939)
Edith Potter Quotes:
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Edith Potter: [Wiping her hands on towel] Oh, cheap Chinese embroidery! You know, I'll bet Peggy gave her these...
Sylvia Fowler: It wouldn't be so bad if only Mary's friends knew; we could keep our mouths shut.
Edith Potter: I know plenty I'd never breathe about my friend's husbands.
Sylvia Fowler: Oh, so do I!
[They both turn around and look at each other]
Edith Potter: Well, you know, I adore Mary!
Sylvia Fowler: I worship her! We're not only cousins; she's my dearest friend in the world. After all, we were raised together!
[Turns around quickly]
Sylvia Fowler: Oh Edith, I forgot to tell you...
[Whispers to Edith]
Mary Haines: Break it up, girls! Break it up!
Edith Potter: Darling!
Mary Haines: Hello!
Edith Potter: You're so slim, I could kill you.
Mary Haines: You don't have to. The diet I'm on is pure poison.
-- Edith Potter -
Sylvia Fowler: [At the place Crystal Allen works] Well, here we are... Creeping up on her!
Edith Potter: Darling do you think we ought to do this?
Sylvia Fowler: Oh shut up!
Edith Potter: [Spots lady] That's little Crystal!
Sylvia Fowler: None other...
Ugly saleswoman: [Turns around] May I serve you madam?
Edith Potter: [Surprised] No, thank you!
Sylvia Fowler: [Surprised] Just looking!
[Walking away]
Sylvia Fowler: Oh from the neck up I'd say no...
[Spots other woman]
Sylvia Fowler: Ah, how about baby?
Edith Potter: Of course!
[Walks over to her]
Edith Potter: Mmmm... Couldn't be anyone else!
[Hears other lady call her "Pat"]
Sylvia Fowler: Pat?
Edith Potter: I still don't know why he overlooked her.
Sylvia Fowler: I do...
[points to Crystal]
Sylvia Fowler: Pipe.
-- Edith Potter -
Edith Potter: What are you going to write next, Nancy? Animal stories?
Nancy Blake: [looking at Sylvia Fowler] I wouldn't have to go to Africa for that.
-- Edith Potter -
Jane: [Opens the door for Edith] How do you do, Mrs. Potter?
Edith Potter: Hello, Jane.
Jane: And how are you feeling today?
Edith Potter: Too awful. I wouldn't wish my woes on my worst friend.
[Looks around the corner]
Edith Potter: Oh Jane, will you tell Mrs. Fowler that I'd like to speak to her out here for just a moment.
Jane: Yes, Mrs. Potter.
Nancy Blake: [Comes around the corner and surprises Edith] How's the little mother?
Edith Potter: [shouts out to Jane] Jane! Never mind about that...
[to Nancy]
Edith Potter: Hello, dear...
Nancy Blake: The spider's in the parlor. Let's go join her.
-- Edith Potter -
Edith Potter: Weren't you going to Africa to shoot, Nancy?
Nancy Blake: As soon as my book's out.
Sylvia Fowler: I don't blame you. I'd rather face a tiger any day than the sort of things the critics said about your last book.
-- Edith Potter -
Edith Potter: Oh, she can't help it. It's just her tough luck that she wasn't born deaf and dumb.
-- Edith Potter -
Peggy Day: Edith, I think Sylvia is a perfectly dreadful woman and I'm going to tell her so.
Edith Potter: Oh, darling, she can't help it. It's her tough luck that she wasn't born deaf and dumb.
-- Edith Potter -
Dolly DeHaven: What are you four conspiring about?
Kay Hilliard, Sylvia Fowler, Amanda Penrose, Edith Potter: Hello, Dolly!
Dolly DeHaven: Anything unfit to print?
Kay Hilliard: Not today.
-- Edith Potter -
Sylvia Fowler: Don't you be too sure about Phelps.
Edith Potter: Phelps? In a law office?
Sylvia Fowler: Have you ever seen some of those court stenographers, darling? Shorthand isn't all they can take.
-- Edith Potter -
Sylvia Fowler: How long is it now that they've been married?
Edith Potter: Ten years, I think.
Sylvia Fowler: Aw, poor Kay. Well, that's just about the time when it gets to be open season on husbands and Steven is such fair game - with all those pretty little things back stage trying so hard to get ahead.
-- Edith Potter
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