Hearts Divided (1936)

Clara Blandick: Aunt Ellen

Quotes 

• Aunt Ellen : Well, if you three insist on holding a wake around here, you'd better get a corpse and do it right.

• Aunt Ellen : Betsy's been seeing too much of this young nobody.

  Charles Patterson : Oh, poppycock. He's doing her a lot of good, whetting her thirst for knowledge.

  Aunt Ellen : But did you ever wonder about what?

• Betsy Patterson : Miss him? I hope I never lay eyes on him again!

  Aunt Ellen : Darling, don't.

  Betsy Patterson : He's an impudent upstart!

  Aunt Ellen : Why, Betsy, dear.

  Betsy Patterson : A conceited nincompoop!

  Aunt Ellen : Don't get so excited.

  Betsy Patterson : And, not only that, he's a - he's a - well he - he's the sweetest person in - in the whole wide world.

  Aunt Ellen : You love him, don't you.

  Betsy Patterson : You don't think I could hate him this way if I didn't, do you?

• Aunt Ellen : Betsy what's the matter?

  Betsy Patterson : Well, I'm quite well.

  Aunt Ellen : But, not happy. Ever since we returned to Baltimore you've been wretched.

  Betsy Patterson : Perhaps I miss Washington.

• Aunt Ellen : Be grateful for memories. Believe an old spinster.

  Betsy Patterson : But, I'm not old, Aunt Ellen. I'm young. I don't want memories. I want - life!