Louise Randall Pierson:
Every time I get my ship on an even keel, something goes bang!
--Rosalind Russell (as Louise Randall Pierson) in Roughly Speaking
--Rosalind Russell (as Louise Randall Pierson) in Roughly Speaking
Mame Dennis:
[to Patrick who has unleashed sunlight on a very hung-over Mame] Child, how can you see with all that light?
--Rosalind Russell (as Mame Dennis) in Auntie Mame
--Rosalind Russell (as Mame Dennis) in Auntie Mame
Mame Dennis:
That's a B. It's the first letter of a seven-letter word that means your late father.
--Rosalind Russell (as Mame Dennis) in Auntie Mame
--Rosalind Russell (as Mame Dennis) in Auntie Mame
Miss Vandeleur:
I'll take my auntie's plum pudding. I can have it waxed after the dog is acquitted.
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Trouble for Two
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Trouble for Two
Mother Superior:
[after breaking up a dance party in the bathroom] As you're all such music lovers, I'm sure you'll be delighted to know that you're going to spend the next two weekends cleaning out the music room.
[nods at a girl who fainted]
Mother Superior: Get Devon off the floor.
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
[nods at a girl who fainted]
Mother Superior: Get Devon off the floor.
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Mother Superior:
[to Mary] One of us may have to go. But I guarantee you, it won't be me!
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in The Trouble with Angels
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in The Trouble with Angels
Mother Superior:
[to Sister George] Ah, Sister. If you were planning to be charitable to me... don't. It would be out of character.
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Mother Superior:
As for the social graces, I'm convinced that your school encourages barbarism and concerns itself only with free thinking, free wheeling and finger-painting.
Mr. Petrie: The finest educational minds in the country happen to be on our side!
Mother Superior: God is on ours!
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in The Trouble with Angels
Mr. Petrie: The finest educational minds in the country happen to be on our side!
Mother Superior: God is on ours!
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in The Trouble with Angels
Mother Superior:
Doesn't anyone live in New Mexico?
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Mother Superior:
Don't be ridiculous Sister. You can't handle that monster.
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
