Nurse Preen Quotes in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

Sheridan Whiteside: [opening a box of candy] Ah, pecan butternut fudge!

Nurse Preen: Oh, my, you mustn't eat candy, Mr. Whiteside, it's very bad for you.

Sheridan Whiteside: My great aunt Jennifer ate a whole box of candy every day of her life. She lived to be 102 and when she'd been dead three days she looked better than you do *now!*

Nurse Preen: I am not only walking out on this case, Mr. Whiteside, I am leaving the nursing profession. I became a nurse because all my life, ever since I was a little girl, I was filled with the idea of serving a suffering humanity. After one month with you , Mr. Whiteside, I am going to work in a munitions factory. From now on , anything I can do to help exterminate the human race will fill me with the greatest of pleasure. If Florence Nightingale had ever nursed YOU, Mr. Whiteside, she would have married Jack the Ripper instead of founding the Red Cross!

Nurse Preen: Mr. Whiteside, I can only be in one place at a time.

Sheridan Whiteside: That's very fortunate for this community.

Nurse Preen: A penguin bit me!