Mrs. Hubbard Quotes in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

Mrs. Hubbard: Mr. Watson, please eat something. You must have the appetite of a bird.

Thomas Watson: Yes, Ma'am, a vulture.

Bianchi: You mean you saw the man? You can identify the murderer?

Mrs. Hubbard: I mean nothing of the kind. I mean there was a man in my compartment last night. It was pitch dark, of course, and my eyes were closed in terror...

Bianchi: Then how did you know it was a man?

Mrs. Hubbard: Because I've enjoyed *very warm* relations with both my husbands.

Bianchi: With your eyes closed?

Mrs. Hubbard: That helped.

Mrs. Hubbard: [to Bianchi] Don't you agree the man must've entered my compartment to gain access to Mr. Ratchett?

Princess Dragomiroff: [dismissively] I can think of no other reason, madame!

Pierre: The whistle means that help is near, madame.

Mrs. Hubbard: And high time, too.

Hercule Poirot: Time is what counts, Mrs. Hubbard, if we are to complete this inquiry before reaching Brod. I will therefore make my questions as brief as I hope you will make your answers, and the more often you can confine yourself to a simple yes or no, the better.

Mrs. Hubbard: Well, don't waste time yammering. Begin.

Hercule Poirot: Your full name is Harriet Belinda Hubbard.

Mrs. Hubbard: Yes. I was called Harriet after my -...

Mrs. Hubbard: What's the matter with him? Train-sick or something?

Hercule Poirot: Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.

Hercule Poirot: America's foremost tragic actress, Harriet Belinda... Miss Linda Arden.

Mrs. Hubbard: I always heard she wanted to play comedy parts, but her husband wouldn't allow it.

Hercule Poirot: Which husband? Your second husband, Mr. Hubbard, or your first husband, Mr. Greenwood?

Hercule Poirot: [referring to a monogrammed handkerchief] But I thought... the initial...

Mrs. Hubbard: H for Harriet, H for Hubbard, but it's still not mine. Mine are sensible things, not expensive Paris frills. Why, one sneeze and that has to go to the laundry!

Frank Hubbard: There's a light on at the light house!

Meg Hubbard: Sandy may have gone there, she's always talking about that place.

Mrs. Hubbard: She wouldn't have gone in the dark.

Frank Hubbard: We'd better make sure!