Mrs. Cantrell: You're at the end of the road and the devil is beside ya... waiting.


--Marjorie Main (as Mrs. Cantrell, aka Mrs. Adams) in Dark Command

Mrs. Cantrell: You're no good, Will.
William Cantrell: I've killed men for saying less than that!
Mrs. Cantrell: You've killed a lot of men for saying nothing at all!


--Marjorie Main (as Mrs. Cantrell, aka Mrs. Adams) in Dark Command

Mrs. Hittaway: What good is a trailerite if not to help out another trailerite?


--Marjorie Main (as Mrs. Hittaway) in The Long, Long Trailer

Mrs. McKessic: Well, bust my britches!


--Marjorie Main (as Mrs. McKissick) in The Affairs of Martha

Mrs. Phineas Hill: All the cheques I've written to Charles, five of them. Supposedly for his pet charities. Well I'm through being charitable to everyone he pets.


--Marjorie Main (as Mrs. Phineas Hill) in The Belle of New York

Mrs. Phineas Hill: And when you leave, take Buffalo Bill with you!


--Marjorie Main (as Mrs. Phineas Hill) in The Belle of New York

Agnes Smith: Katie, where's my cat?
Katie the Maid: I don't know... a little while ago, she got in my way and I kicked her down the cellar steps. I could hear her spine hitting on every step.
Agnes Smith: Oh, if you killed her, I'll kill you! I'll stab you to death in your sleep, then I'll tie your body to two wild horses until you're pulled apart.
Katie the Maid: Oh, won't that be terrible, now? There's your cat.


--Marjorie Main (as Katie) in Meet Me in St. Louis

Grandma Fleagle: [after Pete has blown out the candle, and he and the Fleagles see that her skin glows in the dark] I glow, don't I?
Pete Marshall: Yes, quite a bit.
Grandma Fleagle: I knowed it! I'm p'isoned, and
[pointing to Fleagles]
Grandma Fleagle: they're the ones that done it to me!
Pete Marshall: They did? How?
Mamie Johnson: What to you want to do, live forever?


--Marjorie Main (as ) in Murder, He Says

[she holds a rifle on her son, William, to prevent him from going upstairs after his wife]
William Cantrell: Say, what's the matter with you? What's that gun for?
Mrs. Cantrell: It's for you, Will. I thought I'd borned a man-child when I first hear'd you squallin'. But I didn't. I borned a dirty murderin' snake that's broke my heart to see it crawlin' along. You're no good, Will.
William Cantrell: I've killed a lot of men for saying less than that.
Mrs. Cantrell: You've killed a lot of men for sayin' nuthin' at all! Kansas is red with their bleedin'. I curse the day I ever had you.


--Marjorie Main (as Mrs. Cantrell, aka Mrs. Adams) in Dark Command