Valerie Colby:
But how can you even think of marrying him if you don't love him?
Joan Colby: Love? Marriage has nothing to do with love. Marriage is a business - at least, it's a woman's business. And love is an emotion. A man doesn't let emotion interfere with *his* business, and if more women would learn not to let emotion interfere with *theirs*, fewer of them would end up in the divorce court.
--Ann Harding (as ) in Double Harness
Joan Colby: Love? Marriage has nothing to do with love. Marriage is a business - at least, it's a woman's business. And love is an emotion. A man doesn't let emotion interfere with *his* business, and if more women would learn not to let emotion interfere with *theirs*, fewer of them would end up in the divorce court.
--Ann Harding (as ) in Double Harness
Aunt Matilda Reed:
[Entering the room] I always ring that gong, gentlemen, to warn people to stop talking about me behind my back.
--Ann Harding (as Aunt Matilda Reed) in Christmas Eve
--Ann Harding (as Aunt Matilda Reed) in Christmas Eve
Aunt Matilda Reed:
Have you any idea how many toy trains are wrecked by fathers on Christmas Day, and how difficult it is to work a railroad system if one is over 10 years old?
--Ann Harding (as Aunt Matilda Reed) in Christmas Eve
--Ann Harding (as Aunt Matilda Reed) in Christmas Eve
Daisy Sage:
Behold, the bridegroom cometh. And no oil for my lamp, as usual. A foolish virgin me. Oh, foolish anyway.
--Ann Harding (as ) in The Animal Kingdom
--Ann Harding (as ) in The Animal Kingdom
Daisy Sage:
For all our big talk, we both still belong to the animal kingdom.
--Ann Harding (as ) in The Animal Kingdom
--Ann Harding (as ) in The Animal Kingdom
Daisy Sage:
You're a free man you know, Tommy, always have been with me, no questions asked, but oh, please, Mexico in June, together, because listen... No, don't look at me. Look in the other way.
[Takes a deep breath]
Daisy Sage: On the boat coming over, the sweetest small boy, about two, and I got crazy about him and I want one. I want one *badly*. So would you please be good enough to marry me?
Tom Collier: [Is startled and stands straight up]
Daisy Sage: Oh, you always said you wanted to and I wouldn't let you. Well, it isn't terribly serious, not a life sentence, you know, just for a little while if you like. Will be such a dirty trick on him if you didn't.
--Ann Harding (as ) in The Animal Kingdom
[Takes a deep breath]
Daisy Sage: On the boat coming over, the sweetest small boy, about two, and I got crazy about him and I want one. I want one *badly*. So would you please be good enough to marry me?
Tom Collier: [Is startled and stands straight up]
Daisy Sage: Oh, you always said you wanted to and I wouldn't let you. Well, it isn't terribly serious, not a life sentence, you know, just for a little while if you like. Will be such a dirty trick on him if you didn't.
--Ann Harding (as ) in The Animal Kingdom
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins:
I couldn't stand his multiplying all by himself.
--Ann Harding (as ) in Enchanted April
--Ann Harding (as ) in Enchanted April
Mrs. Marjorie Davies:
[to Madame Molotov] Well, I imagine that women are much the same the world over. They all want to please their men.
--Ann Harding (as Mrs. Marjorie Davies) in Mission to Moscow
--Ann Harding (as Mrs. Marjorie Davies) in Mission to Moscow
Therese Du Flos Verlaine:
[as Therese prepares to leave for French Indochina, she says goodbye to her father, the Colonel] Aren't you going to let me forget just for five minutes that I'm a soldier's daughter?
Col. Du Flos: From now on, you'll have to remember it more than ever. You're going out to marry André, but that is not enough. You'll live in a place where it is impossible to live; you'll make your home where no home can be. Have you sufficient strength for that?
Therese Du Flos Verlaine: I hope so, sir.
Col. Du Flos: I believe you have, but so has the jungle. Don't let it engulf you. Don't let it break André. Take to him your race for a wedding gift, the prestige of the White man. That means everything you stand for, and it is the only weapon you two will have--prestige--but it is enough to preserve you. Now--wasn't that a pretty speech?
Therese Du Flos Verlaine: Yes, sir, it was. And I'll try to remember it, if you'll kiss me.
--Ann Harding (as ) in Prestige
Col. Du Flos: From now on, you'll have to remember it more than ever. You're going out to marry André, but that is not enough. You'll live in a place where it is impossible to live; you'll make your home where no home can be. Have you sufficient strength for that?
Therese Du Flos Verlaine: I hope so, sir.
Col. Du Flos: I believe you have, but so has the jungle. Don't let it engulf you. Don't let it break André. Take to him your race for a wedding gift, the prestige of the White man. That means everything you stand for, and it is the only weapon you two will have--prestige--but it is enough to preserve you. Now--wasn't that a pretty speech?
Therese Du Flos Verlaine: Yes, sir, it was. And I'll try to remember it, if you'll kiss me.
--Ann Harding (as ) in Prestige
