The Corn Is Green (1945)

Mildred Dunnock: Miss Ronberry

Quotes 

• Miss Lilly Moffat : [to Miss Ronberry]  You live alone. You have just enough money. You are not badly educated. And time lies heavy on your hands. Isn't that so?

  Miss Ronberry : Not at all. When the proper gentleman appears...

  Miss Lilly Moffat : Oh, no Miss Ronberry, if you're a spinster well on in her thirties, he's lost his way and isn't coming. Why don't you face the fact and enjoy life the way I do?

  Miss Ronberry : When did you give up hope?

  [Gasps] 

  Miss Ronberry : Oh, what a horrid expression!

  Miss Lilly Moffat : Well, I can't recall ever having had any hope. Visitors used to take a long look at my figure and say, she is going to be the clever one.

• Miss Ronberry : Do you not miss her?

  Mrs. Watty : No. I don't like her, you know. Never have.

  Miss Ronberry : Why, Mrs. Watty, your own daughter?

  Mrs. Watty : I know. But I've never been able to take to her. First time I saw her I said "No"!