The Holly and the Ivy (1952)

Margaret Halstan: Aunt Lydia

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• Aunt Lydia : This is right. Absolutely right. You're cut out for each other. I can always tell.

  David Paterson : Are you psychic or what?

  Aunt Lydia : Oh, what a delicious Scottish voice.

• Aunt Lydia : And what do you do?

  David Paterson : I'm an engineer.

  Aunt Lydia : Oh, I'm afraid that means nothing to me. I always think that engineering's a little inhuman somehow. It's people that count. After all, it isn't petro and oil that make the world go round, is it?

• Aunt Lydia : When you're in love, you mustn't let anything stand in the way.

• Aunt Lydia : Everyone needs someone else.

• Aunt Lydia : I always think Christmas is the loveliest of the festivals.

  Rev. Martin Gregory : Do you know I hate it?

  Aunt Lydia : But Martin, *why*?

  Rev. Martin Gregory : Ah, the brewers and the retail traders have got hold of it. It's all eating and drinking and giving each other knickknacks. Nobody remembers the birth of Christ.