Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)

Sidney Blackmer: John Stevens

Quotes 

• John Stevens : [Reading from J. M. Barrie's book, The Little Minister]  The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

  Ella Bishop : [Interrupting]  Would you mind reading that again? Just the last sentence.

  John Stevens : The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story... and writes another.

  Ella Bishop : I suppose that's true, isn't it? We dream dreams and... Do go on.

• John Stevens : [Examining the label on a wine bottle]  Orvieto...

  Ella Bishop : Orvieto? Should know but I don't.

  John Stevens : It's a little Italian town, Orvieto. Sunny and warm, it's flooded with warm sunlight. I remember once seeing one beggar there with a beautiful flower and a ragged hat. He was perfectly happy.

  Ella Bishop : A beggar with a flower in his ragged hat. And sunlight...

  John Stevens : I stayed there for weeks and weeks. I ate chestnut bread with the peasants and drank the new wine. And *I* was perfectly happy. Then I went on to Rome; I did everything the guidebook said but it wasn't the same.