Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)

The Sins of Castle Cove (1989)

Gloria DeHaven: Phyllis Grant

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Eve Simpson : I swear to you. Alice showed up at the Harbor house wearing shorts, and they wouldn't let her in.

  Loretta Spiegel : Shorts? She must be older than God's mother.

  Ideal Molloy : Oh, but she's so proud of her legs.

  Phyllis Grant : I don't know why. Her knees look like two fat boys bumping their heads together.

• Miriam Harwood : I hope it's a love story. The only books I ever read are romantic novels with happy endings.

  Phyllis Grant : I like realism. Lots of tall, attractive, single men fighting over one mature working lady.

  Ideal Molloy : Well, I always look at the cover. If the man is bare-chested, and the woman isn't, I buy it.

• Phyllis Grant : I could swear you had your hair done day before yesterday.

  Eve Simpson : Loretta left in too much gray. I got home late last night; I caught my reflection in the hall mirror and screamed. I thought I was being attacked by some senior citizen.

• Phyllis Grant : Eve, darling, it also says in the book that you had an affair with the butcher, but you broke it off because of his mother?

  Eve Simpson : I won't dignify that with an answer, but that mother of his is something else.

• Phyllis Grant : Sybil calls the beauty shop a gossip communications center.

  Loretta Spiegel : I never hear any gossip, just good talk among good friends about other good friends who aren't here to defend themselves.