Strangers May Kiss (1931)

Marjorie Rambeau: Geneva

Quotes 

• Geneva : If I could invent a cream that would make 37 look like 17, I'd use it myself!

• Geneva : Have a grand time?

  Lisbeth Corbin : Oh, seventh heaven... eighth, if there is one...

• Geneva : So, you still love him?

  Lisbeth Corbin : Oh, more than the earth, the sun, the moon or the stars - with the Milky Way thrown in for good measure.

  Geneva : My dear child, if you feel that way, why don't you marry him? Well, why don't you?

  Lisbeth Corbin : We don't believe in the awful necessity of marriage.

  Geneva : You mean, he doesn't.

  Lisbeth Corbin : I mean what I said.

• Lisbeth Corbin : And, by the way, when did you go conventional?

  Geneva : When I got sense. At present I'm carrying on a purely plutonic affair with a very rich man. Plutonic.

  Lisbeth Corbin : You're funny.

  Geneva : No, clever. I'll marry him someday. Unless he's smarter than I am.

  Lisbeth Corbin : Ha-ha. He isn't.

• Geneva : So help me, Jemima, I've never seen New York so filthy with weather for such a stretch.

• Geneva : You're a great girl darling; but, you're a little bit dumb.

• Lisbeth Corbin : [Picks up the phone]  Yes, hello. Hello.

  [to Geneva] 

  Lisbeth Corbin : Long distance, Boston.

  Geneva : Steve? Tell him you'll marry him. It will help him over the holidays.

  Lisbeth Corbin : Ha-ha. Merry Christmas.

  Geneva : Merry Christmas.

• Geneva : Now, don't scold Harry, my mother brought me up to never be on time when you met a man.

• Geneva : Well, shades of Santa Claus!

  Alan : Hello, Geneva

  Geneva : Have you phoned upstairs?

  Alan : I just arrived.

  Geneva : Well, here's my key. Number three-ten. Now, don't phone and don't knock. Walk right in and say, eh, eh, Merry, eh, Fourth of July or Chinese New Year. Ha-ha.

• Lisbeth Corbin : Well, this is a swell time to come in. Eight o'clock in the morning.

  Geneva : That's exactly the way I feel. Been up to Harlem for ham and eggs.

  Lisbeth Corbin : Oh, don't they serve them locally, anymore?

• Geneva : Any use in my telling you that you're making a mistake? No, I didn't think there was.

  Lisbeth Corbin : No power on earth can stop me.

  Geneva : Thank goodness your laundry came back yesterday. I knew a girl who forgot all of her best underclothes. It practically ruined Niagara Falls.

• Geneva : Darling. Darling, you're right and I'm a fool. I'm sorry but you'll have to send your messages by wireless. No time now for sad farewells. Forget about tomorrow and yesterday and go to it. My wild Irish blessing's attend you. Hooray and three cheers!

• Harry : Oh, it's nice enough, but, I'm getting fed up on musical shows.

  Lisbeth Corbin : Oh, they're great for us tired business women.

  Geneva : Don't believe him. If legs were mathematics, he'd be a second Einstein.