The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV Series)

Vanessa (1968)

Edward Mulhare: Capt. Daniel Gregg

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Quotes 

• Carolyn Muir : I know what you're gonna say. I've heard it over and over before. "Madam, this is not a public tavern. Madam, this house was not leased as an hotel. Madam, I will not have my privacy invaded." Etc., etc. etc., etc. The fact is, Captain, that as long as I pay the rent here, I can invite anyone I choose, to stay as long as I choose. What do you say to that?

  Capt. Daniel Gregg : [spotting a lovely young woman by the car]  I say it's not very hospitable of you to leave your guest standing outside all this time.

• Capt. Daniel Gregg : The past is a pleasant place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

• Carolyn Muir : Don't you trust me?

  Capt. Daniel Gregg : You're a female. Pandora was a female. Eve was a female. Historically speaking your sex has shown altogether too much blasted curiosity.

• [Vanessa sings in another part of the house] 

  Capt. Daniel Gregg : My Vanessa used to sing that, too.

  Carolyn Muir : She's a quarter of a tone off.

• Capt. Daniel Gregg : Her hair is a storm at midnight, he eyes black pearls from the ocean deeps, voice... an angel song in the wind.

• Capt. Daniel Gregg : Vanessa is obviously oversensitive.

  Carolyn Muir : Oversensitive, perhaps, but not overly perseptive.

  Capt. Daniel Gregg : Mm?

  Carolyn Muir : Well, that letter couldn't have destroyed your romance with her ancestor. You never mailed it.

  Capt. Daniel Gregg : Oh, well, that was merely the first draft. Now the second draft, which I did mail, was much more ferocious.

  Carolyn Muir : Oh, I see. Well, that was a good touch, that, uh, quotation about the coward and the brave man.

  Capt. Daniel Gregg : Yes, I thought so. Uh, Oscar Wilde, wasn't it?

  Carolyn Muir : Yes. It was a line from a poem he wrote about, uh, thirty year after you died.

  Capt. Daniel Gregg : Blast. Should have thought of that.

• Capt. Daniel Gregg : Now, Mrs. Muir, I said that Vanessa could stay here as long as she pleased. My house is her house.

  Carolyn Muir : Actually, Captain, your house is MY house.