Vicky Lowndes Quotes in Too Many Husbands (1940)

Gertrude Houlihan: Mrs. Lowndes, I'm getting married.

Vicky Lowndes: Well, congratulations.

Gertrude Houlihan: For what?

Vicky Lowndes: You don't think I'm crazy do you, Dad?

George: No.

Vicky Lowndes: These things always happen when I eat veal.

Vicky Lowndes: You can't tell a woman to meet her dead husband at eight o'clock! You just can't! You, you mean, he's a - live?

Vicky Lowndes: I don't know whether I'm asleep or out of my mind or what?

Vicky Lowndes: What am I going to do? I have two husbands!

Vicky Lowndes: Oh! Oh! Get some brandy!

Vicky Lowndes: Here I am, a helpless woman!

Vicky Lowndes: What are you two worried about? I'm the one with the two husbands!

Bill Cardew: I'm out of your life. Drowned. Forgotten. You found a new love. That makes me an unwanted corpse at a party. I'll go.

Vicky Lowndes: No, no dear. We don't feel that way at all. Do we, Henry?

Henry Lowndes: I think he described himself perfectly!

Vicky Lowndes: Buck up, Bill! - I'll be waiting

[Playfully walks away and stretches herself out on the stairway banister]

Vicky Lowndes: In my room.

Vicky Lowndes: Since you men haven't reached a decision, the only proper thing for me to do is to put both my husbands in the guest room!

Vicky Lowndes: Where did you go?

Henry Lowndes: Oh, places

Bill Cardew: Dumps, joints.

Vicky Lowndes: I see. The condemned men had a hardy drunk!

Gertrude Houlihan: Do you know what I did when you married Bill, I mean, Mr. Cardew? I kidded myself into thinking that I had married him. That I was you.

Vicky Lowndes: Well, there's no harm in that.

Gertrude Houlihan: Thank you.

[Dreamily stares off into space]

Vicky Lowndes: What are you thinking about?

Gertrude Houlihan: Our honeymoon.

[Smiles]

Vicky Lowndes: If you loved me at all, you never would have left here, even if I did tell you to get out.

Henry Lowndes: What are you whispering?

Vicky Lowndes: I wasn't whispering.

Bill Cardew: I was showing her where a barracuda bit me.

Vicky Lowndes: I like my husbands to love me, to fight for me.

George: Vicky!

Vicky Lowndes: Is that wrong?

George: I don't know. It sounds wrong when you use the plural.

Vicky Lowndes: [In the guest bedroom where both men are to sleep this night] I just thought I'd see if you were all right.

Bill Cardew: I don't feel very good.

Vicky Lowndes: No? What's the matter?

Bill Cardew: Fever, I guess. Deadly tropical fever.

Vicky Lowndes: Your forehead isn't hot.

Bill Cardew: Don't take your hand away.

Vicky Lowndes: Get some aspirin from the cabinet, will you, Henry?

Henry Lowndes: Let him get his own aspirin. I don't feel any too well myself.

Vicky Lowndes: Really, dear?

Henry Lowndes: No.

Vicky Lowndes: Stick out your tongue.

Henry Lowndes: What's my tongue got to do with it? You held his head.

Vicky Lowndes: Let me see your tongue. You know your stomach always goes bad first.

Bill Cardew: [Looks at Henry sticking out his tongue] I'd be sick if I had that in my mouth.

Vicky Lowndes: You're all right. Did you brush your teeth?

Henry Lowndes: Ask him if he brushed his.

Bill Cardew: Can I help it if somebody gave my toothbrush to a tramp?

Henry Lowndes: The tramp wouldn't take it.