Kate Robinson Mackay Quotes in Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)

David Mackay: Gee, Ma, you act as if we were monsters or something.

Kate Robinson Mackay: Well, you are. You're just lucky that I happen to be peculiar and love monsters.

George Mackay: [slightly baffled by the rather masculine appearance of Dr. Sprouk] Excuse me, are you a lady or a man?

Kate Robinson Mackay: [embarrassed] George!

Dr. Sprouk: I'm a veterinarian, sonny. It's somewhere in-between.

Alfred North: [Quoting from Larry Mackay's drama review, in which Mackay has "pre-reviewed" his wife's upcoming play] He says the Hooton Players are charming - particularly their leading lady - but they're wasting time on a twenty-year old play written by a man with no talent for writing plays - namely, himself.

Alfred North: [Now reading directly from Mackay's article] "It was rejected by every Broadway producer in terms so outraged, that I determined never to write another one, thus saving myself years of futile effort and frustration."

Alfred North: Here comes the cherry on the banana split:

Alfred North: [resumes reading from Mackay's article] "I have been under attack of late by my near and dear for what they consider my cruelty as a critic. But this glimpse of my past monstrosity has made me so grateful to those *I* once thought cruel, that I shall go on yelling "Tripe," whenever tripe is served."... Well, we certainly taught HIM a lesson!

Kate Robinson Mackay: This whole nonsensical thing is costing me everything important in my life... Do you think he'll come to the performance?

Alfred North: [Once again reads directly from the article] "Tonight when the curtain rises on "So Passion Dies" I shall be far, far away. And, dear reader, may I wish you the same good fortune."