Elizabeth Taylor
(as Catherine Holly)
Mrs. Venable:
Doctor, you must cut that lie out of her brain.
Catherine Holly: How MUCH are you willing to pay for that, Aunt Vi?
Catherine Holly: How MUCH are you willing to pay for that, Aunt Vi?
Katharine Hepburn
(as Mrs. Violet Venable)
Mrs. Venable:
Most people's lives, what are they but trails of debris - each day more debris, more debris... long, long trails of debris, with nothing to clean it all up but death.
Katharine Hepburn
(as Mrs. Violet Venable)
Mrs. Venable:
My son, Sebastian and I constructed our days. Each day we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture, leaving behind us a trail of days like a gallery of sculpture until suddenly, last summer.
Katharine Hepburn
(as Mrs. Violet Venable)
Mrs. Venable:
Oh, Sebastian, what a lovely summer it's been. Just the two of us. Sebastian and Violet. Violet and Sebastian. Just the way it's always going to be. Oh, we are lucky, my darling, to have one another and need no one else ever.
Katharine Hepburn
(as Mrs. Violet Venable)
Katharine Hepburn
(as Mrs. Violet Venable)
Katharine Hepburn
(as Mrs. Violet Venable)
Mrs. Venable:
Strictly speaking, his life was his occupation. Yes, yes, Sebastian was a poet. That's what I meant when I said his life was his work because the work of a poet is th elife of a poet, and vice versa, the life of a poet is the work of a poet. I mean, you can't separate them. I mean, a poet's life is his work, and his work is his life in a special sense.