Quotes of the 40s: All Solved!

I hope the odd hours gave different people a chance to play. You always ask for that.

1. Strange that a man can live with a woman for ten years and not know the first thing about her.
The Letter
Solved by Hazel (comment #4).

2. I’m going crazy. I’m standing here solidly on my own two hands and going crazy.
The Philadelphia Story
Solved by George (comment #1).

3. This is the land of milk and honey for the health racket. Every woman in California thinks she’s either too fat or too thin or too something.
High Sierra
Solved by Melville (comment #6).

4. Ever hear of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire? That was our crowd.
I Married a Witch
Solved by Evn (comment #5).

5. Yeah, yeah, I know that bromide. Something borrowed, something blue – old, new! Rice and old shoes, carry you over the threshold, Niagara Falls – all the silly tripe I’ve made fun of for years. Is this what I’ve come to? I can’t go through with it. I won’t marry you and that’s that!
Arsenic and Old Lace
Solved by Dawa Lhamo (comment #8).

6. Hey look, Mister – we serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don’t need any characters around to give the joint “atmosphere”.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Solved by George (comment #1).

7. My dear, since Eve picked the apple, no woman has ever been taken entirely unawares.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Solved by Amy (comment #3).

2 comments

  1. Roberta says:

    A witch, and angel and a ghost…

  2. Deborah Lipp says:

    …walk into a bar…