The Rose Tattoo (1955)

Jo Van Fleet: Bessie

Quotes 

• Bessie : I heard that the convention delegates caught a girl on Canal Street.

  Flora : Yeah?

  Bessie : And they tore the clothes off her and sent her home in a taxi!

  Flora : I double-dog dare anybody to try that on me.

  Bessie : You? You'd walk home.

• Bessie : Sour grapes. Sour grapes is your trouble. You are just wild with envy.

• Bessie : This blouse can mean the difference between a not-so-good and a very good time in New Orleans. Wait till you see how sexy.

• Bessie : It was a romance too. Not no fly-by-night thing, but a real steady affair that went on for more than a year.

  Flora : Oh, leave her in ignorance. Ignorance is bliss.

  Bessie : He had a rose tattoo on his chest, the stuck-up thing. Estelle was so gone on him that she went down to Bourbon Street and had one put on her too. Yeah, a rose tattoo on her chest, same as the macaroni's.