Emma Allen Quotes in White Christmas (1954)

Gen. Thomas F. Waverly: I got along very well in the Army without you.

Emma Allen: It took 15,000 men to take m' place.

Gen. Thomas F. Waverly: How could you have sent all my suits to the cleaners?

Emma Allen: [laconically] You've only got two.

Gen. Thomas F. Waverly: Well, I think you'd send one at a time then, in that case.

Judy Haynes: [inquiring about the inn] Well, are things really that bad?

Emma Allen: We're using the ski tow to hang the wash on.

Bob Wallace: We came up here for the snow. Where're you keepin' it?

Emma Allen: Well, we take it in during the day!

Emma Allen: [Regarding the inn] He sunk everything - his pension, his life savings - EVERYTHING in remodeling this place. Used to be a grist mill and a barn; now it's a Tyrolean haunted house.

Emma Allen: Oh, my word, if I wasn't such a mean old biddy, I'd break right down and cry.