Rachel Devery Quotes in The Trouble with Angels (1966)

Rachel Devery: Couldn't we have uniforms, too, Reverend Mother?

Mother Superior: Most certainly not. The band will perform in their gym suits.

Rachel Devery: Our gym suits?

Mother Superior: Yes.

Mary Clancy: But, they're awful! I mean, it's not as if they were like Sacred Heart's. At Sacred Heart they wear short-shorts for gym.

Mother Superior: They're French.

Rachel Devery: [to Mary during their final punishment] I wonder if my father realizes that he's paying good money to have me educated to be a janitor.

[upon their first arrival at St. Francis]

Mary Clancy: Ohhh! It's positively medieval!

Rachel Devery: All that's missing is the dragon!

Mary Clancy: Hi, Marvel-Ann!

Marvel-Ann Clancy: Drop dead!

Rachel Devery: Who's that?

Mary Clancy: Marvel-Ann. My uncle George is her father. He's been sending her to the nuns since she was six. I told her she was illegitimate, so she hates me.

Rachel Devery: Is she?

Mary Clancy: Lord, no! Uncle George is very careful about that kind of thing.

Mary Clancy: Rache! I need something to stuff in the window. The snow's coming in.

[Rachel gives Mary a magazine]

Mary Clancy: I can't stuff His Holiness in the window!

Rachel Devery: Well, I'm not going to give you Burt Lancaster!

Rachel Devery: You know, that nutty swan looks just like Sister Elizabeth.

Rachel Devery: [while washing pots for punishment] Reverend Mother says that the detergent might help wash away my sins.

Rachel Devery: You going to St. Francis, too?

Mary Clancy: [indicating her school uniform] Would I be caught dead in this Dior creation otherwise?

Rachel Devery: That's a fact.

Mary Clancy: What's your name?

Rachel Devery: Rachel Devery.

Mary Clancy: No it's not!

Rachel Devery: Huh?

Mary Clancy: It's Fleur de Lis. You're half French.

Rachel Devery: How about that! What's your name?

Mary Clancy: Kim Novak?

Rachel Devery: I like it.

Mary Clancy: So do I. But I'm stuck with "Mary Clancy"!

Rachel Devery: I think I'm gonna kill myself!

Mary Clancy: Catholics aren't allowed to.