It's a Gift (1934)

Kathleen Howard: Amelia Bissonette

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Quotes 

• [at breakfast, Norman takes the plate of bacon before Harold can get it] 

  Harold : Hey, put it down!

  Norman : What's the matter, Pop? Don'tcha love me anymore?

  Harold : [he raises his hand to hit Norman]  Certainly I love you.

  Amelia : Don't you strike that child!

  Harold : Well, he's not gonna tell me I don't love him.

• Amelia : Wake up and go to sleep!

• [Harold ripped a pillow playing with the dog] 

  Amelia : Those were my mother's feathers!

  Harold : Never knew your mother had feathers.

• Amelia : Oh, look what you've done!

  Harold : She ran right in front of the car!

  Amelia : Why, it's a statue, you idiot. It's a Venus de Milo.

• [Harold has slipped on a skate] 

  Norman : Ha ha. Do it again, Pop.

  Harold : Shut up!

  Amelia : Hurt yourself, Dear?

  Harold : Shut... Umm no, Dear.

• Amelia : Why were you sitting there like a stone image when those men were insulting me?

  Harold : I was just waiting for one of 'em to say something to me.

• Amelia : Seems pretty strange someone would call you from a maternity hospital in the middle of the night.

  Harold : They didn't call me from a maternity hospital. They called thinking this was the maternity hospital.

  Amelia : A likely story!

• Harold : This sun dial is ten minutes slow.

  Amelia : Yes, the sun is wrong but your watch is right, of course.

• Mildred Bissonette : I never knew such an ungrateful father!

  Harold : Listen, you've all got to realize one thing, that I am the Master of this house.

  Amelia : [Calling from another part of the house]  Harold!

  Harold : Yes dear!

  Amelia : I don't know why it is that every time I want to talk to you, you're off in some other part of the house! I have to shout! Shout! Shout! No wonder the neighbors know all about our private affairs. I give them enough opportunity as it is to find out what's going on, without you running away as if I had the small pox or something. Every time I open my mouth...

  [Harold slips out of the house] 

• Amelia : As I was saying - are you listening to me?

  Harold : Eh, yes dear, yes dear, yes dear.

  Amelia : For twenty years, I've struggled to make a home for you and the children.

  Harold : That's right dear.

  Amelia : Slaving day-in, day-out, to make both ends meet. Sometimes I don't know which way to turn.

  Harold : Eh, turn over on your right side, dear. Sleeping on your left side's bad for the heart.

• Amelia : The only real money you'll ever have and you throw it away before you get your hands on a penny of it! What are you lying there for?

  Harold : I'm tired.

  Amelia : Why don't you go to bed?

  Harold : I thought I'd lie down and take a little nap first.

• Amelia : And no more drinking!

  Harold : Oh, no, no, no. Good night, dear.

• Amelia : Harold!

  Harold : Don't argue with them, dear, they're beneath our dignity.

• Mildred Bissonette : Dad, quick! Mother's fainted!

  Harold : Huh? Oh, here, here. Give her some of this reviver.

  [Mildred gives her Mother some of Harold's hooch] 

  Harold : Doesn't it taste good?

  Amelia : [Amelia's revived]  Oh, you're an old idiot. But, I can't help loving you.

  Harold : Give her another drink.