Come Live with Me (1941)

Verree Teasdale: Diana Kendrick

Quotes 

• Barton Kendrick : Why do you have this pink mirror? You can't get a good look at yourself in it?

  Diana Kendrick : Ah, but you can see what you want to see. Any woman looking into that mirror, sees a young girl of 16 looking back at her.

  Barton Kendrick : Well, it's a nice idea; but, its hardly realistic.

  Diana Kendrick : Oh, but it's such a comfort not to be realistic. You see, just before I go out, the last thing I do is take a look at my pink mirror. And there I am. Young, fresh and glowing! And that's the way I think of myself all evening.

• Arnold Stafford : I'm not late, am I?

  Diana Kendrick : You're never late, Arnold. It's your only virtue.

  Arnold Stafford : Oh, not at all. I also never do card tricks.

• Diana Kendrick : Men are really mysterious creatures, Yvonne.

  Yvonne : Yes, Mrs. Kendrick. All of them.

• Barton Kendrick : I think New York's rather a nice city.

  Diana Kendrick : It has its points - especially in the Spring.

  Barton Kendrick : There's always a sense of excitement. You feel anything can happen.

  Diana Kendrick : Anything can. And yet, somehow it's safe too.

  Barton Kendrick : You like safety, don't you?

  Diana Kendrick : Yes, I do. Don't you?

  Barton Kendrick : Well, I'm not so sure. It might be dull.

  Diana Kendrick : Possibly.

• Arnold Stafford : You know, your husband's much too broadminded.

  Diana Kendrick : I should think you'd be the last one to complain about that.

  Arnold Stafford : Husbands ought to be jealous! It's the traditional thing.

  Diana Kendrick : Barton and I don't believe in tradition. Ours is a modern marriage.

  Arnold Stafford : You poor dear.

  Diana Kendrick : I like my marriage. It's just the way I want it.

  Arnold Stafford : You lie, thank goodness.

  Diana Kendrick : I do not. Barton and I have a *perfect* understanding.

• Arnold Stafford : Uh-huh.

  Diana Kendrick : What do you mean uh-huh?

  Arnold Stafford : I mean, uh huh, whenever I hear a wife boasting about how modern her marriage is, I say, to myself, that is, "Uh-huh, her husband's straying off the reservation."

• Barton Kendrick : You're swell, Dian.

  Diana Kendrick : No, I'm not, darling. I'm just sensible.

• [first lines] 

  Diana Kendrick : [yelling to Barton in the adjacent room as he is on his horse-like exercise machine]  Hi-ho Silver!