After Tomorrow (1932)

Josephine Hull: Mrs. Piper

Quotes 

• Mrs. Piper : Pete, my poor boy. You're on the edge of a great and serious experience.

  [It's the night before Pete's wedding] 

  Peter Piper : What's the matter? What are you talking about?

  Mrs. Piper : Listen, Pete. In every man, in every boy even, there lurks a beast. A beast that can be aroused!

  Peter Piper : [embarrassed]  Oh for cat's sake, Ma.

• Mrs. Piper : I suppose I'm a fool.

  Willie Taylor : Did anyone ever dispute that?

• Mrs. Piper : I'll be all alone, with so many things to remind me of my boy in the old home.

  Peter Piper : Yeah, we've lived in our ancestral three rooms for going on two months now.

• Mrs. Piper : I've always talked things over with him frankly.

  Willie Taylor : What do you mean, frankly?

  Mrs. Piper : Sex. Women. Babies.

  Willie Taylor : Does Pete like to talk about those things with you?

  Mrs. Piper : Well no, he doesn't. But I know it's best for a boy's sex education to come from his mother.

  Willie Taylor : Baloney! He found out all about those things from boys long before.