Innkeeper: After great effort, I, Hercules Schneider, have found you the only carriage in Pecs. Of course, the horses may not be the best in the world...
Countess Mathilde: Can they walk?
Innkeeper: Oh, yes, Madam!
Countess Mathilde: That's all that's necessary. Point them to Paris and start them moving.
Innkeeper: Tonight, madam?
Countess Mathilde: Certainly, tonight!
Innkeeper: But it's dark!
Countess Mathilde: You don't say. It usually is at night.


--Florence Bates (as ) in The Son of Monte Cristo

Mrs. Jekes: I just can't understand a man fiddling away his time just painting things. Of course he did shovel some snow to pay part of last month's rent.
Mrs. Bunce: Painting things? Women? Women in the...
Mrs. Jekes: Mrs. Bunce, we agreed that he was a gentleman and gentleman just don't paint "women in the... "
Mrs. Bunce: [flustered] No, of course not.


--Florence Bates (as Mrs. Jekes) in Portrait of Jennie

Sophie Bellop: [to Clio] I know my way around this world. I know what it is to be very rich, and I know what it is to be very poor. I've lived on nothing for years... in luxury!


--Florence Bates (as Sophie Bellop) in Saratoga Trunk

Sophie Bellop: Here's your ring. Hang onto your jewelry. I always say it's a woman's best friend.


--Florence Bates (as Sophie Bellop) in Saratoga Trunk

Clio Dulaine: If you mean to harm me, she'll be likely to kill you. She'll make a little figure like you out of soap and she'd stick little pinns into it, and you'd sicken and die.
Sophie Bellop: Not me. I've had pins stuck in me all my life and knives and everything up to pickaxes.


--Florence Bates (as Sophie Bellop) in Saratoga Trunk

Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: [after hearing about Rebecca's engagement with Maxim] Tennis lessons my foot!


--Florence Bates (as Mrs. Van Hopper) in Rebecca