Aggie Pilkington: That butler...
Lizzie Wilkins: Some people you have to know well to dislike. Others you can hate on very short acquaintance.


--Aline MacMahon (as ) in Tish

Kate Canady: Why did you do it, Lockhart?
Will Lockhart: Oh, you too, huh?
Kate Canady: Now look here. You get into a scrap with a man, and five minutes later he's found dead. What am I supposed to think?"
Will Lockhart: You're supposed to think I killed him. I came all the way from Laramie to creep up a dark alley and knife the town drunk. Now does that make better sense to you?
Kate Canady: If it did, I wouldn't be here.


--Aline MacMahon (as Kate Canady) in The Man from Laramie

Miss Taylor: I think you can always get people interested in the crucifixion of a woman.


--Aline MacMahon (as Miss Taylor) in Five Star Final

Trixie Lorraine: "Fanny" is Faneul H. Peabody, just the kind of man I've been looking for, lots of money and no resistance.


--Aline MacMahon (as Trixie) in Gold Diggers of 1933

Trixie Lorraine: [whispers to Fay] One more look at him with those bedroom-eyes and I'll break your leg!
Trixie Lorraine: [loudly, to all] Excuse me for whispering; Fay and I have so much in common!


--Aline MacMahon (as Trixie) in Gold Diggers of 1933

Arthur Goldberg: Sufferin' Moses, but Mr. Randall's got a lot of women!
Miss Taylor: They're goyem. Ain't you got no religion?
Arthur Goldberg: Either way you say that, I ought to change my name.
Miss Taylor: Don't do it, kid. New York's too full of Christians as it is!


--Aline MacMahon (as Miss Taylor) in Five Star Final

Will Lockhart: [having a wound dressed] Have you done this before?
Kate Canady: I've patched up bullet holes in places I wouldn't like to mention.


--Aline MacMahon (as Kate Canady) in The Man from Laramie

Will Lockhart: You're just a hard, scheming old woman, aren't you?
Kate Canady: Ugly, too.


--Aline MacMahon (as Kate Canady) in The Man from Laramie