Mary Clay Quotes in Forsaking All Others (1934)

Mary Clay: Jeff, has it ever occurred to you that this is none of your business?

Jeffrey 'Jeff': It's none of my business when I see a dog being whipped, but I'll stop it every time.

Mary Clay: Just look at those cornflowers... When I was a kid, I said I wanted to be married in a cornflower dress. Dill remembered. Married in hundreds of cornflowers. What a perfect wedding.

Eleanor: It's a matter of taste. I'd just soon be married in alcohol.

Aunt Paula: Eleanor!

Eleanor: Oh, now, don't worry, Paula. I'll be so old they'll have to pickle me in something!

Mary Clay: Don't be silly. I'm not going to faint. I'm not the type.

Mary Clay: Oo-ouch! Ouch! Hey, Bella, I'm going to need that leg to get married with tomorrow.

Bella - Mary's Masseuse: What you say?

Mary Clay: The bride was vision of beauty in black and blue spots. Now, wouldn't that be pretty?

Bella - Mary's Masseuse: Black and blue, green or yellow, you are a sucker to get married.

Mary Clay: Say, is that an attack on my future husband or are you just anti-wedding?

Bella - Mary's Masseuse: Both.

Mary Clay: Are you through?

Bella - Mary's Masseuse: Yeah.

Mary Clay: I wish you'd take your thumb out of my back.

Mary Clay: Hey, Paula. What goes on at bachelor dinners?

Aunt Paula: As I understand it, very little, goes on.

Mary Clay: I get it.

Jeffrey 'Jeff': Darling, I lived in Madrid. It's like Paris.

Aunt Paula: Oh really, I understood it's quite savage, jungles and things.

Mary Clay: Paula's never read Ernest Hemmingway.

Jeffrey 'Jeff': Evidently not.

Mary Clay: After all, Mrs. Todd, I've known Dill much longer than you have and, well, we had a few things we wanted to talk over.

Connie Barnes Todd: Dill doesn't talk with his hands.

Mary Clay: Really? Isn't that funny, he always used to.

Jeffrey 'Jeff': [Speaking to Dill's new wife, Connie] Yes, yes, but, please hear my story. You know, I started life in the service of Mary's grandfather, one Colonel Lionel Q. Clay, of the Confederate army.

Dillon 'Dill': Union army.

Jeffrey 'Jeff': Confederate.

Dillon 'Dill': Union army.

Jeffrey 'Jeff': Confederate.

Dillon 'Dill': I beg your pardon, Union army.

Jeffrey 'Jeff': I was, at that time, a colored slave and very anxious for the South to win, so I could collect my back pay. I'm still trying to collect.

Mary Clay: [Sarcastically] How dare you say that! We once paid you a dollar eighty on account.

Mary Clay: Jeff, stop talking like a big noble brother! Will you get it through your head that I'm free, white and twenty-one! And if I want to, I'll keep my self-respect around until its lost! I've played according to the book from now and where am I? From now on I use my own rules!

Fred: What'll it all be be, ladies?

Imogene Mayfield: Dope and cherry, Fred.

Fred: [to Mary] How about you, half-pint?

Mary Clay: Make mine a chocolate malt and drop an egg in it as fresh as you are.

Fred: The hens don't lay 'em that good.