Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie Quotes in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Where's my wandering parakeet?

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: What's this room? I've forgotten my compass.

Macaulay Connor: I'd say, south-by-southwest parlor-by-living-room.

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Oh it's all right Tracy. We all go haywire at times and if we don't, maybe we ought to.

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: There's a cousin, Joanna, who's definitely crazy.

Macaulay Connor: Who told you that.

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Dinah.

Macaulay Connor: Well Dinah would know.

Macaulay Connor: [speaking of Tracy] What are her leading characteristics?

C. K. Dexter Haven: She has a horror of men who wear their hats in the house.

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Leading characteristics to be filled in later.

Macaulay Connor: I can fill them in right now: the rich, rapacious, American female. There's no other country where she exists.

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: And would I change places with Tracy Samantha Lord for all her wealth and beauty? Oh boy just ask me.

Tracy Lord: Aren't you coming Liz?

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Well, it seems I've got to commit suicide first.

Uncle Willie: [leering at Liz] Ah Ms. Embry, you're a vision of lovliness. May I offer you a cocktail? Or champagne?

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Oh champagne, I've never had enough.

Uncle Willie: You will... tonight.

Macaulay Connor: [telling off Sidney Kidd, his boss] Quote: No hunter of buckshot in the rear is cagey, crafty Connor. Un-quote. Close paragraph.

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Close job. Close bank account.

[Liz screams as Uncle Willie pinches her on the rear]

Macaulay Connor: Don't DO that!

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: I... I feel exactly as though I'd been pinched.

Seth Lord: Don't you think you weren't.

[Mike discovers the intercom in the Lords' house]

Macaulay Connor: Uh-oh, Liz, what did I tell you? Look, how do you like this - living room, sitting room, terrace, pool, stables.

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: That's probably so they can talk to the horses without having them in the house.

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: We've come for the body of Macaulay Connor.

C. K. Dexter Haven: I'm so glad you came. Can you use a typewriter?

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: No, thanks, I've got one at home.

Sidney Kidd: You hate me, I trust, Miss Imbrie.

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: No, I-I can't afford to hate anybody. I'm only a photographer.

Macaulay Connor: Look, who's doing the interviewing here?

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Do you think she caught on somehow?

Macaulay Connor: No, she was born like that, don't let her throw you.

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Do you want to take over?

Macaulay Connor: I want to go home!

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: [referring to Dinah] What's this?

Macaulay Connor: Idiot, probably.

Macaulay Connor: [after Tracy has declined his last-minute marriage proposal] But they're in there! They're waiting!

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Don't get too conventional all at once, will you? There'll be a reaction.

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: I remember your honeymoon quite well. You and she on a little sail boat, the "True Love", wasn't it?

C. K. Dexter Haven: Yes it was. How did you know?

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: I was the only photographer whose camera you didn't smash. You were terribly nice about it. You threw it in the ocean.

Macaulay Connor: Oh, one of those.

C. K. Dexter Haven: Yes I had the strange notion that our honeymoon was our own.

Macaulay Connor: C.K. Dexter Haven! What a name tag!

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Macauly Connor is no homespun tag either, my pet.

Macaulay Connor: Yeah, well you just try calling him Macauly!

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: I knew a plain Joe Smith once. Worst rat I ever met.

Tracy Lord: [Turns towards Liz] Maid of honour?

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Matron.

Macaulay Connor: [Looks at Liz, puzzled]

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Joe Smith, hardware department.