Dragonwyck (1946)

Walter Huston: Ephraim Wells

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• Ephraim Wells : There's something peculiar about a man who orders supper someplace when he's someplace else! How did he know what I wanted to eat?

  Miranda Wells : But there's everything here you could possibly want!

  Ephraim Wells : Everything is what no man should ever want.

• Nicholas Van Ryn : You mentioned my age several times now, sir. Does it affect your confidence in me? Alexander the Great, when he was younger than I, had conquered most of the world.

  Ephraim Wells : Maybe if he had been older, he'd have conquered all of it, or maybe he'd have had the sense not to try in the first place.

• Abigail Wells : [talking about Miranda]  Sometimes when a woman's unhappy, she just can't talk about it, Ephraim.

  Ephraim Wells : Are you gonna tell me it's a man? What man I'd like to know? She's given frostbite to every mother's son in the country.

  Abigail Wells : Perhaps the right man hasn't come along.

  Ephraim Wells : No, she won't find find him with her nose in the air, wanting what she can't get! A woman oughta get a man first and then want him!

• Ephraim Wells : Since the day you drove in here in that fancy rig you've been no more one of us than if you'd never come home at all!

  Abigail Wells : Ephraim, please.

  Ephraim Wells : You hung your fancy outfits in the closets and you acted like you never took them off. You won't sleep and you won't eat because your home's not fine enough and you won't be happy because we're not fine enough.

  Miranda Wells : That's not true - it's got nothing to do with that.

  Ephraim Wells : What has it to do with then?

  Abigail Wells : Sometimes, when a woman's unhappy, she just can't talk about it Ephraim.

  Ephraim Wells : Are you going to tell me it's a man - what man, I'd like to know - she's given frostbite to every mother's son in the county.

  Abigail Wells : Perhaps the right one hasn't come along yet.

  Ephraim Wells : Well, she won't find him with her nose stuck in the air, wanting what she can't get. A woman ought to get a man first, and then want him.