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Mar 18, 2024 · Arsenic and Old Lace is known for its quick wit, clever dialogue, and hilarious situations. The play is filled with memorable lines that have become iconic in the world of comedy. Here are some of the top quotes from Arsenic and Old Lace: “Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.” – Mortimer Brewster
Arsenic and Old Lace: Directed by Frank Capra. With Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson. A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.
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Martha: One of our gentlemen found time to say 'How delicious!' before he died. Martha: For a gallon of elderberry wine, I take one teaspoon full of arsenic, then add half a teaspoon full of strychnine, and then just a pinch of cyanide. Police Sgt. Brophy: They're two of the dearest, sweetest, kindest, old ladies that ever walked the earth.
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Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.When I come back, I expect to find you gone. Wait for me![to elderly guest] You... Get out of here! D'ya wanna be poisoned? D'ya wanna be murdered? D'ya wanna be killed?[to Dr. Einstein] Stop underplaying, I can't hear you![to his aunts] This is developing into a very bad habit! I don't know if I can explain it to you. It's not only against the law, it's wrong!Even the cat's in on it!We were married today. We were going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Your brother tries to kill me. A taxi is waiting and now you want to sleep on a window seat. You can take the honeymoon, your we...
We better not leave the car parked in the street; it might be against the law.[repeated line] Go to bed, Aunt Abby![to Mortimer] If you tell O'Hara what's in the window seat, I'll tell him what's in the cellar. There's an elderly gentleman down there who seems to be very dead.This time, I want the face of an absolute non-entity!The home of my youth... As a child, I wanted to escape it. Now, I want to escape back into it.Who do I look like, Boris Karloff?CHAAARGE!!!(when told that his "term of office" is over) Is this March the 4th? (Mortimer: Practically.)I shall be in my office vetoing some bills.Dr. Einstein: At least people in plays act like they've got sense.Mortimer: Oh, you think so? Did you ever see anybody in a play act like they got any intelligence?Dr. Einstein: [agonizing] How can anybody be so stupid!Elaine: But Mortimer, you're going to love me for my mind, too.Mortimer: One thing at a time!Cab Driver: I'm not a cab driver. I'm a Coffee Pot!Dr. Einstein: Where am I? Oh, here I am.Dr. Einstein: We got a hot stiff on our hands!Martha: One of our gentlemen found time to say 'How delicious!' before he died.Arsenic and Old Lace quotes at the Internet Movie DatabaseContext. This line is spoken by Mortimer Brewster (played by Cary Grant) in the film Arsenic and Old Lace, directed by Frank Capra (1944). Every family has skeletons in the closet, but the off-kilter Brewster clan has them buried in the basement… along with a corpse or two in the window seat.
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Arsenic and Old Lace is not simply a murder-mystery story; it is a commentary on the fragile line between sanity and insanity, the facades people create to hide their true selves, and the absurdity of human nature.
