Jean Brodie:
Now Jenny, do us a cartwheel for comic relief.
--Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
--Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Jean Brodie:
P-E-T-R-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N. Petrification! I do not intend to devote my prime to petrification.
--Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
--Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Jean Brodie:
Safety does not come first. Goodness, truth, and beauty come first.
--Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
--Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Jean Brodie:
Sandy, please try to do as I say and not as I do. Remember, you are a child, Sandy, and far from your prime.
--Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
--Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Jean Brodie:
Six inches is perfectly adequate. More is vulgar!
--Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
--Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Jean Brodie:
The French have a genius for food, but I doubt French women will ever get the vote.
--Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
--Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Patty:
A woman's place is in the home... making money!
--Maggie Smith (as Patty Terwilliger Smith) in Hot Millions
--Maggie Smith (as Patty Terwilliger Smith) in Hot Millions
Jean Brodie:
[voiceover] Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
--Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
--Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie) in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie