Primrose Path (1940)

Queenie Vassar: Grandma

Quotes 

• Mamie Adams : Ma, confidential, he wanted to marry me.

  Grandma : No!

  Mamie Adams : He did! And I says, "Now, look here, Mr. Hawkins, one husband at a time's enough, ain't it?" And he laughed fit to kill.

  Grandma : He must be a god.

  Mamie Adams : Oh, he's a god and very refined.

  Grandma : It's too bad Homer don't do you a favor and get run over or somethin'.

• Grandma : What's the idea of them pigtails?

  Ellie May Adams : What's wrong with them?

  Grandma : You ain't gonna catch no fellas runnin' around lookin' like that.

  Ellie May Adams : Wouldn't want one if I could get 'em and I couldn't get one if I wanted one.

• Ellie May Adams : Is Pa still sick?

  Grandma : He's in there sleepin' off his hangover if that's what you mean.

• Mamie Adams : Here you are, Homer. Take it and have a good time.

  Homer : I'll take it. And I hope you enjoy my degradation.

  Grandma : It's all right with me, Toots.

  Mamie Adams : Now, Homer, don't get tight and fall in a ditch like you done the last time.

• Grandma : Do you suppose hoochamadingy will be in to supper?

  Mamie Adams : Homer? Probably will if he didn't go and fall in that ditch again.

  Grandma : Too bad to waste that nice chop suey on a stomach like his.

• Grandma : All the women in this family are soft in the head.

• Mamie Adams : Pa went down to the library to find out something about them Greeks. You see, Pa's what I guess you'd call kind of a bookworm.

  Grandma : You got part of it right, anyhow.

• Grandma : What's them kids makin' that noise out there about?

  Honeybell : I don't hear nothin'.

  Grandma : You ain't deaf.

  Honeybell : Them kids is slobs.

  Grandma : The kids *are* slobs.

  Honeybell : Well, they're slobs.

• Grandma : Honeybell, you ain't got no cause to lie. It ain't refined.

• Mamie Adams : Maybe we'll go steppin' sometime, huh?

  Grandma : Why not? You can always play a new tune on an old fiddle!

  Mamie Adams : Well, you're just as young as you feel, Ma.

• Grandma : Look at them eyes. Looks like a couple of grapes floating around in his head.

  Homer : You might reserve your acid wit for someone of your own class.

  Grandma : Wasn't no drunks in my family.

• Grandma : Silk stockings' ain't for a girl that acts like a boy. You should've bought her a baseball bat.

• Grandma : [singing]  Just because she made them goo-goo eyes, I thought I'd win her home and catch a prize, She is the best what is, Juanita in my biz

  Grandma , Honeybell : Just because she made them goo-goo eyes

• Grandma : You get to bed.

  Honeybell : Tell me another story.

  Grandma : Tomorrow's another day.

• Grandma : Honeybell, are you too lazy to sweep that dirt out the door?

  Honeybell : This is where you always sweep it.

  Grandma : Well, you don't have to do everything I do.

  Honeybell : Well, then, why do you always tell me to?

• Grandma : Sounds like that big baboon's back again.