Lord Love a Duck (1966)

Ruth Gordon: Mrs. Barnard

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• Stella Bernard : You lied to me, Miss Greene. You permitted me to believe your father was dead.

  Barbara Ann : Well, they're divorced.

  Stella Bernard : In our family we don't divorce our men; we *bury* 'em!

• Stella Bernard : This guy has the constitution of a horse!

• Stella Bernard : My son is a dear boy. He's also a *total* idiot. He takes after his late father.

  Barbara Ann : Oh, yes, he told me. He was a psychiatrist?

  Stella Bernard : Yes, but with a gimmick. He was the first head-shrinker in Beverly Hills to validate parking tickets... You can't imagine what a simple thing like that can mean business-wise.

• Stella Bernard : I buried my husband ten years ago. He died at home, yeah. Right there - right on that spot you're sitting on.

  Stella Bernard : [Barbara Ann looks a little uncomfortable]  Oh, I'm telling you, one minute he's sitting there, Robbie and I are coloring my hair at the time, next minute he's gone.

  Barbara Ann : Oh, how awful! How did he die?

  Stella Bernard : All psychosomatic. Absolutely *nothing* wrong with him physically. Case of death wish, pure and simple. Everything, Miss Greene, *everything* - it's in the mind. You decide to die, then you do it, pfft! That's all there is to it.

• Dr. Milton Lippman : Did he leave a note?

  Stella Bernard : Wouldn't matter. My son is a product of the California school system: couldn't write a simple English sentence if his life depended on it.

• Stella Bernard : In our family, we don't divorce our men. We bury them.

• Stella Bernard : In our family, we don't divorce our men--we bury 'em.