Elizabeth Lane Quotes in Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Elizabeth Lane: Don't you come near me, you seawolf, after the way you deceived me...

Jefferson Jones: I deceived you?

Elizabeth Lane: Yes! You're engaged!

Jefferson Jones: You're married!

Elizabeth Lane: That has nothing to do with it!

Elizabeth Lane: John, when you're kissing me, don't talk about plumbing.

John Sloan: What? Oh, I'm sorry, what should I talk about?

Elizabeth Lane: Well, do you have to talk?

Jefferson Jones: [telling Liz that he isn't engaged anymore] She married my shipmate.

Elizabeth Lane: She did!

Jefferson Jones: I'm as free as a bird!

Elizabeth Lane: Oh, that's what you think.

[she kisses him]

Elizabeth Lane: [Getting fed up with Mr. Yardley, who won't let her speak] Suppose you listen to me for a change?... I said listen to me! I'm tired of being pushed around. Tired of being told what to do. Tired of writing your god-darned articles. Tired of dancing to everybody else's tune. Tired of being told whom to marry. In short... I'm tired!

Felix Bassenak: That coat! What's the meaning?

Elizabeth Lane: Don't worry, I'm paying for it myself. It'll take my next six months' salary. Nice, isn't it?

Felix Bassenak: Six months' work for a coat?

Elizabeth Lane: All my life I promised myself a mink coat. You know, Felix, it's very important to keep promises, especially to yourself.

Felix Bassenak: Do you have to promise so expensively?

Elizabeth Lane: But I need it!

Felix Bassenak: You need it? Nobody needs a mink coat but a mink.

Elizabeth Lane: Maybe scarlet fever. It's a better color for Christmas.

Dudley Beecham: Liz, don't waste time with him. You have to decide what you're going to say to the old man.

John Sloan: What old man?

Elizabeth Lane: Oh, it's Yardley. He's sending me a sailor for Christmas.

John Sloan: Oh, how nice... A sailor? Really, Elizabeth!

Elizabeth Lane: Everytime I'd opened my mouth he talked. I felt like Charlie McCarthy.

Elizabeth Lane: The things a girl will do for a mink coat.

Elizabeth Lane: [Dudley has told her she has to go to see Yardley to arrange her Christmas with the sailor] Arrange it, are you crazy? Where am I gonna get a farm? I haven't even got a window box!

Alexander Yardley: Why, that's strange. He looks different this morning.

Elizabeth Lane: Wouldn't you look different if you'd swallowed a watch?

Alexander Yardley: But he's a blonde, has teeth, and he talks.

Elizabeth Lane: Mr. Yardley, this is no time to take inventory!

Elizabeth Lane: [Jefferson Jones arrives in the middle of Liz and John's wedding] Oh no, John! It's the sailor! He's two hours early! What'll I do!