Cary Grant Movie Quotes  
     
  The Philadelphia Story (1940)  
     
     
  Cary Grant as C. K. Dexter Haven:  
     
     
  To hardly know him is to know him well.  
     
   
     
  Aw, that's the old redhead. No bitterness, no recrimination, just a good swift left to the jaw.  
     
   
     
  I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wives. You know one time I secretly wanted to be a writer.  
     
   
     
   Heaven brought them together, I imagine.  
     
   
     
  She has a horror of men who wear their hats in the house.  
     
   
     
  It's astonishing what money can do for people, don't you agree, Mr. Connor? Not too much, you know - just more than enough.  
     
   
     
  I'm going for the pale pastel shades now. They're more becoming to me.  
     
   
     
  Why, you don't look old enough to get married. Not even the first time. And then you never did... She needs trouble to mature her, Kittredge. Give her lots of it.  
     
   
     
  I'm sorry, but I thought I better hit you before he did. He's in better shape than I am.  
     
   
     
  But you took on that problem with me when you took me, Red. You were no help-mate there. You were a scold.  
     
   
     
  Hello, friends and enemies.  
     
   
     
  She finds human imperfection unforgivable. And when I gradually discovered that my relationship to her was supposed to be not that of a loving husband and a good companion, but... Oh, never mind.  
     
   
     
  Yes, yes your Majesty, but first, could I interest you in some small blackmail?  
     
   
     
  Not interested in yourself, Red, you're fascinated. You're far and away your favorite person in the world.  
     
   
     
  You'll never be a first class human being or a first class woman until you've learned to have some regard for human frailty.