“Bought marmalade? Oh dear, I call that very feeble.”

“Lady Sylvia McCordle: Mr Weissman -- Tell us about the film you're going to make.Morris Weissman: Oh, sure. It's called "Charlie Chan In London". It's a detective story.Mabel Nesbitt: Set in London?Morris Weissman: Well, not really. Most of it takes place at a shooting party in a country house. Sort of like this one, actually. Murder in the middle of the night, a lot of guests for the weekend, everyone's a suspect. You know, that sort of thing.Constance: How horrid. And who turns out to have done it?Morris Weissman: Oh, I couldn't tell you that. It would spoil it for you.Constance: Oh, but none of us will see it.”

“Constance: Tell me, what happened to William's little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner.Mary Maceachran: Elsie? -- She's gone.Constance: Oh, it's a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to have someone in the house who is actually sorry he's dead.”

“It was possible for couples to not discover that they are in profound disagreement over the very fundamentals of life until ten or twenty years of marriage.”

“I don't mean to be rude'- always a precursor to rudeness of the most offensive sort”

“You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.”

“If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.”