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You got twelve, they got twelve. The old ladies is just as good as you are! Aunt 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. Mortimer Brewster: Hmm.
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 wedding ring, your taxi, your window seat, and put 'em in a barrel and push 'em all over Niagara Falls! Jonathan Brewster: Go to bed, Aunt Abby!
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Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. Arsenic and Old Lace. 1/30. Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. Explanation. The infamous quote by Arsenic and Old Lace, "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops," beautifully captures the eccentricity and humor of the play.
Context. 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.
Something borrowed, something blue - old, new! Rice and old shoes, carry you over the threshold, Niagara Falls — all the silly tripe I've made fun of for years. Is this what I've come to? I can't go through with it. I won't marry you and that's that! Elaine: [adoring] Yes, Mortimer. Mortimer: What do you mean, "Yes, Mortimer"? Aren't you ...
A great memorable quote from the Arsenic and Old Lace movie on Quotes.net - Aunt 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.
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. They're out of this world.
