Promise Her Anything (1966)

Cathleen Nesbitt: Mrs. Brock

Quotes 

• Mrs. Brock : Give your father three wishes and I would have been a fan dancer.

• Dr. Philip Brock : You and I merely represent different worlds.

  Mrs. Brock : Which is yours? The Twilight Zone? Listen, if you want to write books about babies, you should have some of your own. Go out and get married. You got a Oedipus Complex or something?

• Mrs. Brock : I want grandchildren. Even Frankenstein found a bride.

• Mrs. Brock : Every other mother thinks no girl is good enough for her son. Me, I've got a son who thinks no girl is good enough for his mother.

  Dr. Philip Brock : Wrong again... I got my eye on a real contender.

  Mrs. Brock : Who?

  Dr. Philip Brock : Oh, a girl I hired last month.

• Mrs. Brock : You going out tonight?

  Dr. Philip Brock : No.

  Mrs. Brock : Can I have the Porsche?

  Dr. Philip Brock : What do you want with the Porsche?

  Mrs. Brock : I like it. It's a sex substitute.

  Dr. Philip Brock : Mother!

  Mrs. Brock : Oh, don't be such a Puritan.

• Dr. Philip Brock : Mother, can you take shorthand.

  Mrs. Brock : No! Can you play "Liebesträume" with your toes?