Hortense Daigle: Children can be nasty, don't you think?


--Eileen Heckart (as Hortense Daigle) in The Bad Seed

Hortense Daigle: He was such a lovely, dear little boy. He used to say I was his sweetheart and he was going to marry me when he grew up. I would laugh so. "No you won't. You'll forget about me long before then. You'll find a prettier girl and marry her." And do you know what he said then? "No, I won't. 'Cause there isn't a prettier girl in the whole world than you are."


--Eileen Heckart (as Hortense Daigle) in The Bad Seed

Hortense Daigle: I'm drunk. It's a pleasure to stay drunk when your little boy's been killed.


--Eileen Heckart (as Hortense Daigle) in The Bad Seed

Mrs. Brummel: I am sick at my heart when my own son goes looking at dead women's naked bodies. I tell you Morris, it is no way to treat a lady.


--Eileen Heckart (as Mrs. Brummel) in No Way to Treat a Lady

Mrs. Brummel: So where you going to take her?
Morris Brummel: Who?
Mrs. Brummel: Kate Palmer.
Morris Brummel: Nowhere.
Mrs. Brummel: Nowhere? That's a place, nowhere?
Morris Brummel: We're going to have dinner at her place.
Mrs. Brummel: You mean her own apartment?
Morris Brummel: That's right.
Mrs. Brummel: The two of you, alone?
Morris Brummel: Well, we were going to invite the strangler, but he couldn't make it.
Mrs. Brummel: Oh, sure, sure. Make fun. Ridicule.


--Eileen Heckart (as Mrs. Brummel) in No Way to Treat a Lady

Mrs. Brummel: So, what do you, what do you do with her, go to mass?
Morris Brummel: No, we just... we walk and we talk.
Mrs. Brummel: Oh, please, please. I don't want to hear another word. Already I won't sleep another wink tonight. Please, don't say another word.
[pause]
Mrs. Brummel: Morris...
Morris Brummel: I thought you didn't want to hear any more?
Mrs. Brummel: Aw, you think I want to? You think I want... I'm in agony. I... I... It's my duty. Go on, go on.
Morris Brummel: Well, she... her, her name is Katherine. Katherine. Katherine Palmer.
Mrs. Brummel: Short, blonde, beautiful?
Morris Brummel: No, she's, er, she's, she's tall and er, she's only got one eye right in the middle of her forehead.
Mrs. Brummel: Of course. Of course. She'll break your heart!


--Eileen Heckart (as Mrs. Brummel) in No Way to Treat a Lady

Mrs. Brummel: That girl is a gem! An absolute gem! And I'll tell you something else...
Morris Brummel: What?
Mrs. Brummel: She reminds me of me!


--Eileen Heckart (as Mrs. Brummel) in No Way to Treat a Lady

Mrs. Brummel: You still don't have a diploma! Not to mention any grandchildren, which your brother Franklin has three already. Three grandchildren. What have I got from you but heartbreak?


--Eileen Heckart (as Mrs. Brummel) in No Way to Treat a Lady