Shemp 'Shempy': as he helps Paula pick up the Dining table and carry it, Where are we going?
Aunt Paula: To Cairo, where do you think, we're going to the Kitchen.


--Billie Burke (as Aunt Paula) in Forsaking All Others

Jerry Kilbourne: Maybe he didn't have a father.
Mrs. Emily Kilbourne: Oh darling, everyone has a father, that's one of nature's unwritten laws.


--Billie Burke (as Mrs. Emily Kilbourne) in Merrily We Live

Contessa di Meina: I can imagine nothing of less interest to the rest of us.


--Billie Burke (as Contessa di Meina) in The Bride Wore Red

Marmy Carleton: The sahib doesn't believe in unemployment.
Mrs. Jennings: He doesn't?
Marmy Carleton: H thinks it should all be done away with.
Mrs. Jennings: How interesting!
Marmy Carleton: He says the only way to do away with unemployment is to do away with employment. If nobody worked, there couldn't be any unemployment, and so the sahib hasn't done a speck of work in four years.


--Billie Burke (as Marmy Carleton) in The Young in Heart

Mrs. Topper: Wilkins, after all these years, are you trying to be funny?


--Billie Burke (as Mrs. Clara Topper) in Topper

Paula Brown: My dear, you have to be an very good actress to be a successful wife.


--Billie Burke (as Paula Brown) in Doubting Thomas

Admiral Monti: Anne Vivaldi, that's it! It's been on the tip of my tongue all night.
Contessa di Meina: How cozy.


--Billie Burke (as Contessa di Meina) in The Bride Wore Red