Gracie: "Don't give up, Blanche. Women don't do that. Look at Betsy Ross, Martha Washington-they didn't give up. Look at Nina Jones." Blanche Morton: "Nina Jones?" Gracie: "I've never heard of her either, because she gave up."

You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it.

My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old.

My mind works so fast. When I think of something I say it. Lots of times I say it even before I think of it.

You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ...? I wonder what I was blushing about?

Gracie: "Don't give up, Blanche. Women don't do that. Look at Betsy Ross, Martha Washington-they didn't give up. Look at Nina Jones." Blanche Morton: "Nina Jones?" Gracie: "I've never heard of her either, because she gave up."

The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.