Carolina Moon (1940)

Eddy Waller: Colonel Stanhope

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Grandfather Stanhope : I don't know what the younger generation is comin' to. I never thought I'd see the day when a Stanhope lady, my own granddaughter, would go traipsin' off up North do a thing like this.

• Grandfather Stanhope : My own granddaughter in a-a - what do you call it - a rodeo. It's unladylike. It's worse than that. It's downright Northern!

  Caroline Stanhope : If I could just win enough money to pay our debts. At least our taxes...

  Grandfather Stanhope : Debts! Taxes! There wouldn't be any if the South had won the war!

  Caroline Stanhope : Yes, Grandpop, but they didn't.

• [Billy is playing his harmonica] 

  Grandfather Stanhope : Quit that squalkin', Billy!

  Billy : Yessir, Colonel. I was just keepin' my mouth warm.