Elvira Condomine Quotes in Blithe Spirit (1945)

Ruth Condomine: [to Charles] Now I want you to come upstairs with me and go to bed.

Elvira Condomine: The way that woman harps on bed.

Charles Condomine: Are you a - ghost?

Elvira Condomine: I suppose I must be. Its all very confusing.

Elvira Condomine: Get me to bed, Charles. Then we can talk in peace.

Charles Condomine: A thoroughly immoral suggestion. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Elvira Condomine: That was one of the most enjoyable ha-has I've ever spent.

Charles Condomine: Are you to be here indefinitely?

Elvira Condomine: I'm afraid I don't know that either. Why? Would you hate it so much if I was?

Charles Condomine: Well, you must admit, it'd be embarrassing.

Elvira Condomine: I don't see why, really. Its all a question of adjusting one's self.

Charles Condomine: Try to see my point of view, dear. I've been married to Ruth for five years and you've been dead for seven.

Elvira Condomine: Not dead, Charles. Passed over. Its considered very vulgar to say dead where I come from.

Elvira Condomine: Well, I really am a little hurt. You call me back and at a great inconvenience I came - and you've been thoroughly churlish ever since I arrived.

Elvira Condomine: Oh, I want to cry. But, I don't think I'm able to.

Charles Condomine: Well, what would you want to cry for?

Elvira Condomine: Well, at seeing you again and you being so irascible like you always used to be.

Charles Condomine: Well, I don't mean to be irascible, Elvira.

Elvira Condomine: Darling, I don't mind. really. I never did.

Charles Condomine: Was I ever unkind to you when you were alive?

Elvira Condomine: Often.

Charles Condomine: Oh, how can you? I'm sure you're exaggerating.

Elvira Condomine: Not at all. You were an absolute pig that time we went to Cornwall and stayed in that awful hotel. You hit me with a billiard cue.

Charles Condomine: Only very, very gently.

Elvira Condomine: I loved you very much.

Charles Condomine: I loved you too.

Charles Condomine: Poor Ruth.

Elvira Condomine: Nuts to Ruth.

Charles Condomine: Promise you'll do what I ask.

Elvira Condomine: Well, that depends on what it is.

Charles Condomine: This whole business is very difficult for Ruth. We must be fair.

Elvira Condomine: Well, she should learn to be more adaptable.

Charles Condomine: She probably will in time.

Elvira Condomine: I doubt it, Charles. She's got a hard mouth. Its her mouth that gives her away.

Charles Condomine: Her mouth's got nothing to do with it. I resent you discussing Ruth as though she were a horse.

Elvira Condomine: Well, why shouldn't I have fun. I died young, didn't I?

Charles Condomine: A woman in Cynthia Chavitz's position. would hardly wear false pearls.

Elvira Condomine: Well, they were practically all she was wearing.

Charles Condomine: As I'm pained to observe that seven years in the echoing vaults of eternity have in no way pared your native vulgarity.

Elvira Condomine: That was the remark of a pompous ass.

Elvira Condomine: I was a eager young bride, Charles. I wanted glamour and music and romance. What I got was potted palms, seven hours of every day on a damp golf course, and a three-piece orchestra playing "Merry England".

Charles Condomine: Captain Brayscone? I might have known it. What a fool I was. What a blind fool. Did he make love to you?

Elvira Condomine: Of course.

Charles Condomine: Oh, Elvira.

Elvira Condomine: Only very discretely. He was in the calvary, you know.

Elvira Condomine: This is going to be a flop. I can tell you that, here and now.

Ruth Condomine: This is definitely one of the most frustrating nights I've ever spent.

Elvira Condomine: The reply to that is pretty obvious.

Ruth Condomine: I'm sure I don't know what you mean.

Ruth Condomine: You called us back and you've done nothing but try to get rid of us ever since we came. Hasn't he, Elvira?

Elvira Condomine: He certainly has.

Ruth Condomine: Now, owing to your idiotic inefficiency, we find ourselves in this mortifying position. We're neither fish, flesh fowl, nor - whatever it is.

Charles Condomine, Elvira Condomine: Good red herring.