Auntie Mame Quotes

Mame Dennis That is a B. The first letter of a seven letter word that means your late father.

Mame Dennis Are we all lit?

Mame Dennis *Note: ranked #93 in the ] in American cinema.

Gloria Upson Books can be awfully decorative, don't you think?

Mame Dennis Child, how can you see with all that light?

Mame Dennis Spitting distance? How vivid!

Gloria Upson Bunny Bixler and I were in the semi-finals—the very semi-finals, mind you—of the ping-pong tournament at the club and this ghastly thing happened. We were both playing way over our heads and the score was 29-28. And we had this really terrific volley and I stepped back to get this really terrific shot. And ]! I just squashed it to bits. And then Bunny and I ran to the closet of the game room to get another ping-pong ball and the closet was locked! Imagine? We had to call the whole thing off. Well, it was ghastly. Well, it was just ghastly.

Mame Dennis Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!

Mame Dennis Oh, you know I really am fascinated by aviation. I never knew they did it all with rubber bands.

Mame Dennis There's no such place as San Francisco.