Mrs. Plunkett Quotes in High Spirits (1988)

Mrs. Plunkett: Good morning, darling!

Plunkett Senior: Good morning dear! Well, our son is an idiot!

Mrs. Plunkett: We've known that for years, haven't we, darling?

Plunkett Senior: Well, this time he has surpassed himself. The ghosts are furious!

Mrs. Plunkett: Why?

Plunkett Senior: Well, they've heard that that Jim Brogan fellow is going to move the castle to Malibu!

Mrs. Plunkett: Oh, how nice! All that sunshine and all those movie stars!

Plunkett Senior: No respectable ghost would live in California!

Mrs. Plunkett: [Peter is about to hang himself] Oh! Taking the easy way out, you naughty boy!

Peter Plunkett: Mother, please! This is not easy, this is very, very difficult!

Mrs. Plunkett: Your father's so worried, he's tearing his hair out!

Peter Plunkett: Mother, father has been dead for a decade

Mrs. Plunkett: And what about your grandmother? How do you think she feels?

Peter Plunkett: Mother, grandmother is dead too!

Mrs. Plunkett: She's still upset

Mrs. Plunkett: [sees Jack, about Mary] You do love her, don't you?

Jack: Yeah, I guess I do. I - I don't know.

Mrs. Plunkett: Then what's the problem then?

Jack: She's a ghost. She's dead, I'm alive.

[goes amazed]

Jack: How do you know all this?

Mrs. Plunkett: [smiles] I'm married to one.

Mrs. Plunkett: You can fool everybody, but landie dearie me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right. If you know what I mean.

Mrs. Plunkett: I can't imagine!