Mrs. Brummel Quotes in No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)

Mrs. Brummel: I am sick at my heart when my own son goes looking at dead women's naked bodies. I tell you Morris, it is no way to treat a lady.

Mrs. Brummel: You still don't have a diploma! Not to mention any grandchildren, which your brother Franklin has three already. Three grandchildren. What have I got from you but heartbreak?

Mrs. Brummel: So, what do you, what do you do with her, go to mass?

Morris Brummel: No, we just... we walk and we talk.

Mrs. Brummel: Oh, please, please. I don't want to hear another word. Already I won't sleep another wink tonight. Please, don't say another word.

[pause]

Mrs. Brummel: Morris...

Morris Brummel: I thought you didn't want to hear any more?

Mrs. Brummel: Aw, you think I want to? You think I want... I'm in agony. I... I... It's my duty. Go on, go on.

Morris Brummel: Well, she... her, her name is Katherine. Katherine. Katherine Palmer.

Mrs. Brummel: Short, blonde, beautiful?

Morris Brummel: No, she's, er, she's, she's tall and er, she's only got one eye right in the middle of her forehead.

Mrs. Brummel: Of course. Of course. She'll break your heart!

Mrs. Brummel: That girl is a gem! An absolute gem! And I'll tell you something else...

Morris Brummel: What?

Mrs. Brummel: She reminds me of me!

Mrs. Brummel: So where you going to take her?

Morris Brummel: Who?

Mrs. Brummel: Kate Palmer.

Morris Brummel: Nowhere.

Mrs. Brummel: Nowhere? That's a place, nowhere?

Morris Brummel: We're going to have dinner at her place.

Mrs. Brummel: You mean her own apartment?

Morris Brummel: That's right.

Mrs. Brummel: The two of you, alone?

Morris Brummel: Well, we were going to invite the strangler, but he couldn't make it.

Mrs. Brummel: Oh, sure, sure. Make fun. Ridicule.