The Mating Season (1951)

Miriam Hopkins: Fran Carleton

Quotes 

• Fran Carleton : If your father were alive, he'd turn over in his grave!

• Fran Carleton : [speaking of 'the aberrations that sometime overtake the male sex']  Why I once knew a brigadier general who couldn't be left alone with a French telephone!

• Fran Carleton : [Preparing a sleeping pill for her daughter, Maggie]  Now you just swallow one of these pills, and you'll sleep for eight solid hours... Here. You know who gave them to me? I wouldn't want it known... Mussolini! He was a terrible man, but he ate well, and he slept well.

• Fran Carleton : When I married your father I was 99 and one ounce. I remember somebody at the wedding reception saying she's so tiny you have to shake the sheets to find her. It's the food in this house.

  Maggie Carleton : If you don't like it you're awfully polite about second helpings.

  Fran Carleton : That's the trouble. It's a constant temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is increasing.