Gertrude Quotes in Rosewood (1997)

[first lines]

Gertrude: G'mornin'.

Aunt Sarah: Good mornin', Sylvester.

Sylvester Carrier: Mornin', mama.

Aunt Sarah: Good mornin', Gertie.

Gertrude: Good mornin', Mama Sarah.

Aunt Sarah: Don't run with them eggs, Arnett!

Gertrude: You didn't pack our clothes properly, you clumsy girl. Bernice's dress even has a rip in it.

[Bernice picks up a teacup and deliberately drops it on the floor where it breaks]

Gertrude: Pick up those bits of broken china at once. And mend and iron our clothes, so we can attend the reception to welcome us aboard. In any case, you can't come... you can't come. You have nothing to wear... nothing to wear... to wear... and no one's going to lend you anything!

[Angelica sadly kneels down to pick up the china pieces]

Hortense & Bernice: Nothing to wear, and no one's going to lend you anything!

Mr. Spaceley: What'll I do? What'll I do? I can lick this problem, but how? Think, Spacely, think. First I need someone to replace that Throttlebottom. But who?

[yells into the intercom]

Mr. Spaceley: Gertrude!

Gertrude: [she comes in] Yes, Mr. Spacely?

Mr. Spaceley: Take a problem.

[she begins typing]

Mr. Spaceley: We need one: A worker who's total loyalt is to Spacely Sprockets. And, of course, to me: President, CEO, and all-around sweetiepie. Two: someone expendable.

[his image comes up on Gertrude's computer screen]

Mr. Spaceley: Very funny. Three: Smoeone who will work for peanuts. Four: Not too bright. And Five: Someone who can push a button. That's it! Ok, what have you got?

Gertrude: It's thinking, Mr. Spacely. It's thinking.

[the screen flashes a lot of images until it comes to George's picture]

Mr. Spaceley: Jetson? I wouldn't choose Jetson even if Spacely Sprockets was going bankrupt! If I needed a transfusion! If I lost my stockholders! My home! If I were penniless!

[calms down]

Mr. Spaceley: Penniless?

Gertrude: He is expendable.

Mr. Spaceley: Perfect!

Gertrude: We'll always have our memories. The Colonel's dead. Here we are still enjoying his chicken.

Gertrude: Yes, Arthur, it is Robert himself who wishes to retire from public life.

Lord Arthur Goring: Rather than risk losing your love, he would do anything. Has he not been punished enough?

Gertrude: We've both been punished. I set him up too high.

Lord Arthur Goring: Do not set him down now too low.

Lord Arthur Goring: Gertrude, it is not the perfect, but rather the imperfect who have need of love.

Gertrude: You seem to know a great deal about it all of a sudden.

Lord Arthur Goring: Oh, I hope not. All I know, Gertrude, is that it takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love. Gertrude, you have more courage than any woman I have ever known. Do not be afraid now to use it.

Gertrude: Lord Goring, you are talking quite seriously.

Lord Arthur Goring: You must forgive me, Lady Chiltern. It won't occur again.

Gertrude: No, I like you to be serious.

[Enter Mabel]

Mabel: Gertrude, please don't say such a dreadful thing to Lord Goring. Seriousness would be very unbecoming to him. Good morning, Lord Goring. Pray be as trivial as you can.

Gertrude: Oh, Arthur... what a good friend you are to him, to us.

Lord Arthur Goring: Yes, but we're not out of danger yet. In fact, I believe there's a rather popular saying about frying pans and fires, except now it is you and I, dear Gertrude, who are to be roasted.

Gertrude: The truth is, when I agreed to the story about the letter being intended for you and not for Arthur... well, the truth is... the truth is...

[whispers]

Gertrude: I lied.

[everyone laughs]

Gertrude: Oh, I need a drink!

Gertrude: You have one Jewish grandmother. You're three-fourths Lutheran. Why do you keep insisting that you're Jewish?

Pete Seltzer: Because I'm a social climber.

Gertrude: One woe doth tread upon another's heels so fast they follow.

Hamlet: Now mother, what's the matter?

Gertrude: Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.

Hamlet: Mother, you have *my* father much offended.

Gertrude: Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.

Hamlet: Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue!

Gertrude: Why, how now, Hamlet?

Hamlet: What's the matter now?

Gertrude: Have you forgot me?

Hamlet: No by the rood, not so! You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife!

Sara Crewe: What are you doing here?

Ermengarde: We brought you something.

[the five girls stand in line, then curtsy one at a time]

Ermengarde: Princess Sara, we'd like to present you with something we rescued.

Betsy: In a most dangerous adventure.

Gertrude: Our very own crusade.

Rosemary: Risking all our lives.

Lottie: And mine too.

[Lottie hands her the locket Miss Minchin confiscated]

Sara Crewe: I - I don't know what to say. You all are the best friends anyone could ever ask for!

[first lines]

Travis: [playing shuffleboard] You suck, don't you?

Gertrude: You suck.

Travis: Yeah, I suck so bad I just skunked you. Which means, you gotta eat your pills.

Gertrude: You're supposed to be nice to me.

Travis: I am nice to you. It's not my fault you got no game.

Gertrude: You suck, Travis.

Travis: I know.

Gertrude: How did Dick happen to know Harry?

Janie: Well, Harry's his mechanic, see. And Dick, of course, is very democratic.

Gertrude: Well, I thought all millionaires were Republicans.