Stella Bernard Quotes in Lord Love a Duck (1966)

Stella Bernard: You lied to me, Miss Greene. You permitted me to believe your father was dead.

Barbara Ann: Well, they're divorced.

Stella Bernard: In our family we don't divorce our men; we *bury* 'em!

Stella Bernard: This guy has the constitution of a horse!

Stella Bernard: My son is a dear boy. He's also a *total* idiot. He takes after his late father.

Barbara Ann: Oh, yes, he told me. He was a psychiatrist?

Stella Bernard: Yes, but with a gimmick. He was the first head-shrinker in Beverly Hills to validate parking tickets... You can't imagine what a simple thing like that can mean business-wise.

Stella Bernard: I buried my husband ten years ago. He died at home, yeah. Right there - right on that spot you're sitting on.

Stella Bernard: [Barbara Ann looks a little uncomfortable] Oh, I'm telling you, one minute he's sitting there, Robbie and I are combing my hair at the time, next minute he's gone.

Barbara Ann: Oh, how awful! How did he die?

Stella Bernard: All psychosomatic. Absolutely *nothing* wrong with him physically. Case of "death wish," pure and simple. Everything, Miss Greene, *everything* - it's in the mind. You decide to die, then you do it, pfft! That's all there is to it.

Dr. Milton Lippman: Did he leave a note?

Stella Bernard: Wouldn't matter. My son is a product of the California school system: couldn't write a simple English sentence if his life depended on it.