The Philadelphia Story (1940)

John Halliday: Seth Lord

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• Seth Lord : What most wives fail to realize is that their husband's philandering has nothing whatever to do with them.

  Tracy Lord : Oh? Then what has it to do with?

  Seth Lord : A reluctance to go grow old, I think.

• Tracy Lord : How do I look?

  Seth Lord : Like a queen. Like a goddess.

  Tracy Lord : And do you know how I feel?

  Seth Lord : How?

  Tracy Lord : Like a human. Like a human being.

• [Liz screams as Uncle Willie pinches her on the rear] 

  Macaulay Connor : Don't *do* that!

  Elizabeth Imbrie : I... I feel exactly as though I'd been pinched.

  Seth Lord : Don't you think you weren't.

• Seth Lord : You have everything it takes to make a lovely woman except the one essential: an understanding heart. And without that, you might just as well be made of bronze.

• Seth Lord : I suppose the best mainstay a man can have as he gets along in years is a daughter.