Life with Father (1947)
Irene Dunne: Vinnie
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Quotes
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Vinnie : Is that suit of your father's too tight for you?
Clarence Day : No, it's not too tight.
Vinnie : Well, what is it?
Clarence Day : Mother, very peculiar things have happened since I started to wear this suit. I can't seem to make these clothes do anything Father wouldn't do.
Vinnie : Oh, that's nonsense. And not to kneel in church is a sacrilege.
Clarence Day : Making Father's trousers kneel seemed like more of a sacrilege.
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Rev. Dr. Lloyd : After considerable thought, we voted that our supporting members should each contribute a sum equal to the cost of their pew.
Father : I paid $5,000 for that pew.
Vinnie : Yes, Clare, that makes our contribution $5,000.
Father : That's robbery. Do you know what that pew is worth today? $3,000. That's what the last one sold for. I've taken a dead loss on that pew of $2,000 already. Frank Bags sold me that pew when the market was at its peak. He knew when to get out. And I'm warning you, Vinnie. If the market ever goes up, I'm going to unload that pew!
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Vinnie : Why didn't you kneel in the church today?
Clarence Day : I... I just couldn't.
Vinnie : Just because your father doesn't kneel, you must remember he wasn't brought up to kneel in church, but you *were*. Has it anything to do with Mary? I know that she is a Methodist.
Clarence Day : Oh, no, mother. Methodists kneel, Mary told me. They don't get up and down so much, but they stay down longer.
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Clarence Day : Jiminy, another wreck on the New Haven. That always disturbs the stock market. Father won't like that.
Vinnie : I do wish the New Haven would stop having wrecks. If they knew how much it upsets your father.
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Father : You're going to every house where you sold a bottle of that concoction and buy it all back.
John Day : But it's a dollar a bottle.
Father : I don't care how much it is. Here, I'll give you the money now. How many bottles did you sell?
John Day : A hundred and twenty-eight.
Father : A hundred and twenty-eight!
Vinnie : Clare, I always told you John would make a good businessman.
Father : Young man, you'll have to come down to my office with me. I'll give you the money to buy back that medicine. $128, and $10 more for Mrs. Sprague's dog, that's $138. But it's all coming out of your allowance. That means you'll not get another penny until the whole $138 is paid up.
John Day : [does math on his fingers] I'll be twenty-one years old!
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Vinnie : I do the best I can to keep down expenses. You know yourself Cousin Phoebe spends twice as much as we do.
Father : Don't talk to me about your cousin Phoebe.
Vinnie : You talk about your own relatives enough.
Vinnie : That's not fair, Vinnie. When I talk about my relatives, I criticize them.
