The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Alice Brady: Aunt Hortense

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• Aunt Hortense : You know, you're beginning to fascinate me, and I resent that in any man.

• Mimi Glossop : Oh, here you are Hortense. I've just had the most embarrassing experience. A man tore my dress off!

  Aunt Hortense : My goodness! Anyone we know?

• Aunt Hortense : [Going with Mimi to check into the hotel]  Oh, Egbert, are you coming with us?

  Egbert Fitzgerald : What? Hortense, oh my. You can't remain with her. This is supposed to be a clandestine affair. You can't have a clandestine affair between three people!

  Aunt Hortense : [laughing]  Oh, that's what you say!

• Aunt Hortense : Be feminine and sweet. If you can blend the two.

• Aunt Hortense : [to Mimi]  I do adore Paris. It's so much like Chicago... It's such a relief when you travel to feel that you've never left home at all.

• Aunt Hortense : Good gracious, what have you done? Sent out invitations for this affair?

• Mimi Glossop : I really can't eat a thing.

  Aunt Hortense : But you must eat. After all, you can't have a divorce on an empty stomach.

• Mimi Glossop : Well, aren't you even astonished?

  Aunt Hortense : Me? Astonished? I haven't been astonished since I was 8. And mind you, I wasn't precocious just moderately intelligent.

• Mimi Glossop : Oh don't leave me, I can't bear to face him. He seems so different.

  Aunt Hortense : Oh, there's nothing different about any of them except the neckties.

• Aunt Hortense : I think it's much better to have this settled now, at once. And then the poor girl can start a new life.

  Guy Holden : A new life?

  Aunt Hortense : Brand new, she's going to make a clean sweep of the old.

  Guy Holden : I see.

  Aunt Hortense : Yes. Yes and you're the broom.

• Guy Holden : Say, which one of us is crazy?

  Aunt Hortense : Oh well, it's not me!

  Guy Holden : You know, all of this is a bit of a shock to me.

  Aunt Hortense : Well, your being here is a bit of a shock to Mimi too.

  Guy Holden : Yes, but it's, it's Mimi's own doing.

• Tonetti : Señora. Fate is a foolish thing to take chances with!

  Aunt Hortense : [pauses]  So are you.

• Aunt Hortense : Egbert is a very old friend of mine. Oh, he doesn't know much about law, his father who's the brains. You know, all of his family spent their entire lives at the bar.

• Aunt Hortense : I'm here professionally Egbert. This poor little thing is married, unhappily married. Now, isn't that criminal?

  Egbert Fitzgerald : Oh, it's no crime to be married, just shows a weakness on the part of men that women take advantage of.

  Aunt Hortense : Oh Egbert, are you proposing to me again?