Smart Woman (1931)

Mary Astor: Mrs. Nancy Gibson

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• Mrs. Nancy Gibson : You know, you look exactly like a bad little boy caught stealing jam.

• Billy Ross : Well, I still insist you cannot teach a woman anything!

  Mrs. Nancy Gibson : You think we're too stupid to learn?

  Billy Ross : No, too clever.

• Mrs. Nancy Gibson : Tell me, what's this new - sweetie of yours like?

• Mrs. Nancy Gibson : [laughing]  Oh, Don, don't be early Victorian. Divorce does happen. It happened to practically all of our friends, it's not surprising it should happen to us.

  Donald 'Don' : I know; but, I didn't think you'd take it like this.

  Mrs. Nancy Gibson : Oh, I know, you expected me to cry my eyes out and make a scene. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you. But, you see, modern women don't act like that. We say, "Oh, our husband wants to go - does he. Very well, then, let him. Maybe next time we'll have better luck and get a really good one."

• Sir Guy Harrington : I thought all American women were restless and dissatisfied.

  Mrs. Nancy Gibson : But, you've never been to America.

  Sir Guy Harrington : No. But, I've met a lot of your country women on the continent.

  Mrs. Nancy Gibson : Well, that accounts for it. Our happy women stay home.

  Sir Guy Harrington : You didn't.

• Mrs. Nancy Gibson : What's he doing in Philadelphia?

  Billy Ross : Who?

  Mrs. Nancy Gibson : Don.

  Billy Ross : Oh, yes, Philadelphia. Now, he's all right. I don't know. What's anybody do down there.

• Mrs. Nancy Gibson : If Don's all right, nothing else matters.

  Billy Ross : Well, he, eh, isn't exactly all right. You see, there was some oats.

  Mrs. Nancy Gibson : Oats?

  Billy Ross : Well, some wild oats.

  Mrs. Sally Ross : Oh, Bill you're a mess!

  Billy Ross : All right, then, there's a girl.

  Mrs. Nancy Gibson : A girl?

  Billy Ross : Don's gone haywire over a girl.

• Mrs. Nancy Gibson : It's so nice and modern to be - modern and not care who's husband belongs to who.

• Billy Ross : I'm not trying to be funny. I just don't believe in marriage, that's all. Have you ever been married Mrs. Preston?

  Mrs. Nancy Gibson : Why, Bill! Of course she has.

  Billy Ross : Oh, of course! I don't know what I could've been thinking of?

  Mrs. Preston - Peggy's Mother : Oh, Mr. Ross, you're such an old tease!

  Billy Ross : Yes, I am sort of a tease.

• Mrs. Nancy Gibson : I suppose one could like one's husband's wife even if one didn't like one's husband.

• Mrs. Nancy Gibson : Why does everyone look so surprised? Is it so extraordinary that I should inspire love and devotion in some manly breast?

• Mrs. Nancy Gibson : Isn't he the perfect husband. No matter what you do, my dear, he'll always believe in you.

• Mrs. Nancy Gibson : I don't see why you should care what I do.

  Donald 'Don' : I don't care a hang what you do! It's Peggy I'm thinking of.

  Mrs. Nancy Gibson : Oh, that pure little flower!

• Sir Guy Harrington : Perhaps, now, there'll be a little chance for me.

  Mrs. Nancy Gibson : Oh, it's sweet of you to want me.

  Sir Guy Harrington : But, you're still the lady who loves her husband?

  Mrs. Nancy Gibson : Aren't women fools!

  Sir Guy Harrington : [Looking out the window at Don]  I know who is a fool.

• Mrs. Nancy Gibson : [At the bridge table]  Don plays a beautiful game.

  Miss Peggy Preston : Very comforting - when you lose the rubber!