- Susan Middlecott: What sort of razor do you plan to use?
- Jerome: Electric.
- Susan Middlecott: Oh. Are you... are you A.C. or... D.C.?
- Prof. Alec Stevenson: You are the coldest woman I've ever met in my life! Miss Middlecott, I made a sad mistake when I brought you that locket. What I should have brought you is a suit of long woolen underwear.
- Susan Middlecott: Oh, what beautiful flowers. Did you grow them?
- Louisa Middlecott: No, mommy. They grew themselves right outside.
- Mark 'J.M.' Middlecott: Oh, Susan, dear, just a minute. You don't want to leave without your weapon.
- [Handing her purse to her]
- Susan Middlecott: Well, why don't you get on?
- Prof. Alec Stevenson: It's a girl's bike.
- Susan Middlecott: Try side saddle.
- Mark 'J.M.' Middlecott: It's too bad that two nice people, like you, who should get together, get together and then don't get together.
- Prof. Alec Stevenson: Well you see, your daughter isn't very get together-able. One might say she's a bit of an icicle.
- Mark 'J.M.' Middlecott: You know what the Greek philosophers say about icicles? Today's icicle may be tomorrow's hot water.
- Susan Middlecott: We're happy aren't we? Just the three of us?
- Louisa Middlecott: I think we'd be happier if we adopted a husband.
- Mark 'J.M.' Middlecott: No, you look like a woman but that's where the resemblance ends. You talk like an encyclopedia. You think like a dictionary. You're, uh...
- Pearl - Switchboard Operator: [Putting lines into the siwtchboard] Hello, Earl, this is Pearl. Hello, Merle, this is Pearl...