Primrose Path (1940)
Queenie Vassar: Grandma
Quotes
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Mamie Adams : Ma, confidential, he wanted to marry me.
Grandma : No!
Mamie Adams : He did! And I says, "Now, look here, Mr. Hawkins, one husband at a time's enough, ain't it?" And he laughed fit to kill.
Grandma : He must be a god.
Mamie Adams : Oh, he's a god and very refined.
Grandma : It's too bad Homer don't do you a favor and get run over or somethin'.
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Grandma : What's the idea of them pigtails?
Ellie May Adams : What's wrong with them?
Grandma : You ain't gonna catch no fellas runnin' around lookin' like that.
Ellie May Adams : Wouldn't want one if I could get 'em and I couldn't get one if I wanted one.
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Ellie May Adams : Is Pa still sick?
Grandma : He's in there sleepin' off his hangover if that's what you mean.
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Mamie Adams : Here you are, Homer. Take it and have a good time.
Homer : I'll take it. And I hope you enjoy my degradation.
Grandma : It's all right with me, Toots.
Mamie Adams : Now, Homer, don't get tight and fall in a ditch like you done the last time.
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Grandma : Do you suppose hoochamadingy will be in to supper?
Mamie Adams : Homer? Probably will if he didn't go and fall in that ditch again.
Grandma : Too bad to waste that nice chop suey on a stomach like his.
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Grandma : All the women in this family are soft in the head.
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Mamie Adams : Pa went down to the library to find out something about them Greeks. You see, Pa's what I guess you'd call kind of a bookworm.
Grandma : You got part of it right, anyhow.
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Grandma : Honeybell, you ain't got no cause to lie. It ain't refined.
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Mamie Adams : Maybe we'll go steppin' sometime, huh?
Grandma : Why not? You can always play a new tune on an old fiddle!
Mamie Adams : Well, you're just as young as you feel, Ma.
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Grandma : Silk stockings' ain't for a girl that acts like a boy. You should've bought her a baseball bat.
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Grandma : Sounds like that big baboon's back again.