Seth Lord Quotes in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Seth Lord: What most wives fail to realize is that their husband's philandering has nothing whatever to do with them.

Tracy Lord: Oh? Then what has it to do with?

Seth Lord: A reluctance to go grow old, I think.

Seth Lord: You have everything it takes to make a lovely woman except the one essential: an understanding heart. And without that you might just as well be made of bronze.

[Liz screams as Uncle Willie pinches her on the rear]

Macaulay Connor: Don't DO that!

Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: I... I feel exactly as though I'd been pinched.

Seth Lord: Don't you think you weren't.

Tracy Lord: How do I look?

Seth Lord: Like a queen. Like a goddess.

Tracy Lord: And do you know how I feel?

Seth Lord: How?

Tracy Lord: Like a human. Like a human being.

Tracy: I'm truly sorry to have been a disappointment to you.

Seth Lord: I've never said that and I never will.

Tracy: Help me off the pedestal.

Seth Lord: Watch out for that first step, it's quite a tumble.