The Matchmaker (1958)

Shirley Booth: Dolly 'Gallagher' Levi

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• Dolly "Gallagher" Levi : Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow.

• Dolly "Gallagher" Levi : Money is like the sun we walk under. It can kill or it can cure.

• Dolly "Gallagher" Levi : Life is never quite interesting enough. You people who come to the movies know that. So I manage things a little. Nature isn't satisfactory, quite, and so it has to be corrected. So I put my hand in here and my hand in there.

• Dolly "Gallagher" Levi : The very young are almost as smart as the very old, Cornelius. It's in the middle that you get in all the trouble.

• Dolly "Gallagher" Levi : [after the two clerks emerge from under a table]  Good heavens, who else is under there?