Aunt Amarilla: Do my fingernails immediately and bring them to my room.


--Mildred Natwick (as Aunt Amarilla) in Yolanda and the Thief

Aunt Amarilla: Right now we will have lunch, as only Gaston can prepare it.
Yolanda Aquaviva: I am hungry.
Aunt Amarilla: Good. I've planned something a little special. Fresh caviar, which was flown here from Russia, avocados flown here from California, and roast pheasants - they fly here themselves.


--Mildred Natwick (as Aunt Amarilla) in Yolanda and the Thief

Aunt Amarilla: You have the largest, most modern stables in the entire country. Do you like horses?
Yolanda Aquaviva: Oh yes, I do.
Aunt Amarilla: Fine, we must buy a horse.


--Mildred Natwick (as Aunt Amarilla) in Yolanda and the Thief

Ethel: [to Corie, after just climbing up the stairs to Paul and Corie's top-floor apartment] I remember when you were a little girl, you said you wanted to live on the moon... I thought you were kidding.


--Mildred Natwick (as Ethel Banks) in Barefoot in the Park

Ethel: I feel like we've died and gone to heaven - only we had to climb up.


--Mildred Natwick (as Ethel Banks) in Barefoot in the Park

Ethel: I had to park the car three blocks away. Then it started to rain so I ran the last two blocks. Then my heel got caught in a subway grating. When I pulled my foot out, I stepped in a puddle. Then a cab went by and splashed my stockings. If the hardware store downstairs was open, I was going to buy a knife and kill myself.


--Mildred Natwick (as Ethel Banks) in Barefoot in the Park

Ethel: Make him feel important. If you do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage - like two out of every ten couples.


--Mildred Natwick (as Ethel Banks) in Barefoot in the Park

Grace Hewitt: Excited?
Nancy Fallon: Wild!
Grace Hewitt: Try not to show it too much, kids like you to be casual.
Nancy Fallon: Grace, I'll welcome any tip you can give me on how to behave with a teenage daughter.
Grace Hewitt: Well, all I know is anything you do is wrong. If you try to spruce yourself up it's, "Oh Mother, that's too kiddish for you," and if you don't it's, "Mother, do you have to dress like an old bag?"
Nancy Fallon: Oh, you make it sound awful.
Grace Hewitt: They love you. They bully you, but they love you, the little monsters. And if anything goes wrong, they turn back to being 6 or 7 years old and cling to you, and that's heaven.


--Mildred Natwick (as Grace Hewitt) in Teenage Rebel

Miss Graveley: [to Capt. Wiles] I'm grateful to you for burying my body.


--Mildred Natwick (as Miss Ivy Gravely) in The Trouble with Harry

Mrs. Abigail Minnett: [as aircraft bombs are heard in the distance] Maybe sooner than you think.


--Mildred Natwick (as Mrs. Abigail Minnett) in The Enchanted Cottage