What Every Woman Knows (1934)
Helen Hayes: Maggie Wylie
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Quotes
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Alick Wylie : What is charm exactly, Maggie?
Maggie Wylie : Oh, it's... it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need anything else. And if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, a few, have charm for all, and most have charm for one, and some have charm for none.
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Charles Venables : I'm sorry not to find him at home. I wanted to talk to him about, about the speech he's preparing on the Gold Standard.
Maggie Wylie : Well, I typewrite his speeches, if there's anything I can tell you.
Charles Venables : I could never think of acquiring information in that way.
La Contessa la Brierre : [scoffs loudly] No, no!
Maggie Wylie : He did say something about- what was that about? About the majority of the party wanting to remain on the Gold Standard.
Charles Venables : Does he realise that it may mean a crash for England if we stick to Gold?
Maggie Wylie : Oh, but in that case the majority would then change their views, wouldn't they?
Charles Venables : The majority will never change.
Maggie Wylie : That would be too bad, wouldn't it?
Charles Venables : In a national crisis, Mrs Shand, men have been known to put their country above their party.
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Maggie Wylie : Is it true that you've never laughed in your life, John?
John Shand : It is.
Maggie Wylie : Oh, what a pity.
John Shand : Why?
Maggie Wylie : I think no one could ever like me very much they couldn't laugh at me a little. Goodnight.
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La Contessa la Brierre : He can't be worthy of you. No man could. Why do you do it?
Maggie Wylie : [as Mrs. John Shand] I'm six years older than he is. I'm plain and I have no charm. I shouldn't have let him marry me. I'm trying to make up for it.
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Maggie Wylie : [as John's wife] It's nothing unusual I've done, John. Every man who is high up loves to think he's done it all himself. Every woman knows that. It's our only due.
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Mr. David Wylie : Are you takin' the book to your bed, Maggie?
Maggie Wylie : Yes. I don't want him to be knowin' things I don't know myself.
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Maggie Wylie : Oh, John, if I could only make you laugh.