My World and Welcome to It (TV Series)

The Disenchanted (1969)

William Windom: John Monroe

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Quotes 

• John Monroe : There are two things that a wife can't stand. A husband coming home early, or a husband coming home late. Or one other thing: A husband coming home in the middle of the day.

• Ellen Monroe : What happened, Lydia? What's wrong?

  Lydia Monroe : I've left school, and I'm not going back till they change my seat.

  Ellen Monroe : Why do you want to change your seat?

  Lydia Monroe : I sit in front of Johnny Bascome. He copies my work, pulls my hair, and he didn't send me a Valentine.

  John Monroe : Well, Lydia, life is fraught with minor discomforts.

• Lydia Monroe : Goodbye, Daddy. Tell mother this is nothing personal.

  John Monroe : I expect someday they'll say that about World War II.

• Ellen Monroe : Well, John, the road to hell is paved...

  John Monroe : Oh, yes, yes, now I know. Haven't you learned yet not to quote one writer to another? It's bad form.

• John Monroe : Miss Skidmore, I appeal to your sense of compromise. Now, unless my daughter is removed from the disturbing influence of Johnny Bascome, well, then I'm afraid that Yale '77 is a meaningless phrase, a hollow promise, an empty sweater.

• John Monroe : Apparently there's a god for cartoonists and writers. And heaven knows we needed one.

  [looking upward] 

  John Monroe : You have my thanks.