Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

Esther Howard: Mrs. Everett J. Noble

Quotes 

• Mrs. Noble : [to her son, Forrest, answering Libby's desire not to tell Woodrow that she's become engaged to Forrest]  Why under similar circumstances I'd be perfectly willing to pretend I wasn't married to your father for several weeks even.

  Mayor Everett D. Noble : You can make it for several months as far as I'm concerned. Heh!

• Mrs. Noble : Everett, I just have a feeling you're going to make an ass of yourself and I'm just going to pretend I don't know you.

  Mayor Everett D. Noble : I wish you didn't have to pretend!

• Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith : You'd better save your hoorays for somebody else, for somebody who deserves them, like Doc Bissell here, who's tried for so long to serve you, only you didn't know a good man when you saw one, so you always elected a phony instead...

  Mayor Everett D. Noble : Oh, I am, am I? Well, let me tell you something, young man! You'll find out!

  Mrs. Noble : Everett, you're making a spectacle of yourself!

  Mayor Everett D. Noble : [brushing off Mrs. Noble]  Will you kindly!

  Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith : ...until a still bigger phony came along, then you naturally wanted him. This should have been the happiest day of my life. It could have been. Instead, it's the bitterest. It says in the Bible, "my cup runneth over". Well, my cup runneth over... with gall. This is the last act. The farce is over. The lying is finished, and the coward is at least cured of his fear.