The Great Lie (1941)

Bette Davis: Maggie

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Quotes 

• Dr. Ferguson : So You never had a child of your own, huh?

  Maggie Patterson Van Allen : No

  Dr. Ferguson : Mm. A Pity. Just the sort of woman that should have them. Oh well, You'll have plenty of time.

  Maggie Patterson Van Allen : I suppose so.

  Dr. Ferguson : It spells life with capital letters. A woman without a child is like a man without an arm. The right arm.

• Maggie Patterson Van Allen : Violet! Lunch! Ham, cakes, honey, and coffee!

  Violet : Jefferson!

  [He enters] 

  Violet : Go out back and get that honey-glazed, peanut-fed, sweet Virginia ham.

  Jefferson : You 'ain't gonna feed that man is you?

  Violet : Jefferson, I'd feed the devil 'hiself if he done polished up the smile on Miss Maggie's face like that!

• Dr. Ferguson : You smoke a lot, don't you?

  Maggie Patterson Van Allen : Yes.

• Maggie Patterson Van Allen : Darling! I give up! You can paint the house white, the trees white...