The Farmer's Daughter (1947)

Ethel Barrymore: Mrs. Morley

Quotes 

• Agatha Morley : What do you want the public to believe, Mr. Finley?

  Anders Finley : To believe in our type of 100% Americanism. Now, a 100% American is...

  Agatha Morley : White?

  Anders Finley : Right!

  Agatha Morley : No foreign-born?

  Anders Finley : Right!

  Agatha Morley : The right kind of religion?

  Anders Finley : Exactly right, Mrs. Morley.

• Anders Finley : Exactly right, Mrs. Morley. I guess I know where you stand.

  [Clancy has had enough. He moves menacingly towards Finley] 

  Joseph Clancy : [to Finley, angrily]  Either you're leaving this house now or I'm going to throw you out!

  Agatha Morley : [Mockingly]  Joseph! How dare you talk to one of my guests like that!

  [Clancy is flabbergasted. Finley smiles. Mrs. Morley is a true convert, that's obvious] 

  Joseph Clancy : [to Mrs. Morley]  You're not serious about this?

  Agatha Morley : Joseph...

  [Reprovingly to Clancy] 

  Agatha Morley : ... I'm afraid we will have to speak about this later.

  Joseph Clancy : [Haughtily]  Mrs. Morley, I'm not accustomed to speakin' about things later.

  Agatha Morley : [to Finley, smiling, pleasantly]  Mr. Finley, I'm afraid I'll have to let Joseph throw you out.

• Agatha Morley : What do you do, Katrin?

  Katrin Holstrom : Well, at home I do everything. Make six beds every morning. Do washing, ironing for mama, papa, my three brothers, myself. Clean all seven rooms and do dishes of course. And, I help mama with the canning. I preserve meat, candle eggs, dill pickles, smoke ham and bacon. I wait on tables - 40 hands at harvest time. And I make glogg.

  Agatha Morley : You do?

  Katrin Holstrom : Yah, at Christmas time, with a hot poker. You want to know what I do outside?

  Glenn Morley : I don't know about my mother, but I'd be fascinated.

  Katrin Holstrom : Well, I plow with horse and tractor. I hoe potatoes, shock wheat, milk cows, bed horses, butcher pigs, kill and dress chickens, and I cut wood for mill and stove.

  Agatha Morley : You've got a job, Katrin.

• Agatha Morley : What did people used to do?

  Dr. Matthew Sutven : In the old days? They ignored it.

  Agatha Morley : They were smart.

  Dr. Matthew Sutven : Sure they were smart. They never called for a doctor until they were good and sick. When a man caught a cold, he treated in by going out in the snow and getting awfully hot. He came in, drank a lot of liquor, got even hotter. Then he went out in the snow to cool off, got awfully sick, and died.