Come Live with Me (1941)

Adeline De Walt Reynolds: Grandma

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• Grandma : After all, time does heal all wounds.

  Johnny Jones : Does it?

  Grandma : No arguing about it. There's no arguing with any of the old sayings because that's why they are old 'cause they tell the truth, and the truth lasts.

• Grandma : You know about Satan and idle hands, don't you?

  Johnny Jones : Oh yes! I've heard about them. Both!

• Johnny Jones : What kind of brandy is this?

  Bill Smith : Blackberry - speciality of Grandma's.

  Grandma : Blackberries will do a lot for you, if you just squeeze them and then leave them alone.

  Charlie Gephardt - Grandma's Hired Hand : Works the same way with the women folks.

  Grandma : Charlie, get out.

  Charlie Gephardt - Grandma's Hired Hand : I was just thinkin' out loud, ma'am.

• Grandma : Sit down, Miss Jones. There where I can see you.

  Johnny Jones : Thank you.

  Grandma : Pretty, aren't you?

  Johnny Jones : [embarrassed]  oh!

  Grandma : Never mind me. When you get old, time is too precious to waste. If people are pretty, you tell them so. And you're pretty.

• Grandma : Part of living is meeting tragedy and rising above it. A woman doesn't amount to anything unless she can do it. It takes a long while to learn that that's true.

  Johnny Jones : Thank you for telling me.

• Grandma : Miss Jones, Martha. She might stay awhile if she likes your cooking.

  Martha : We'll try and fatten her up!

  Bill Smith : No, don't you worry about fattening her up. She's all right the way she is.

  Bill Smith : [as Martha walks away]  You see, Martha eats her own cooking as you can see.

• Grandma : Begin a meal with a good blessing, Johnny. Finish it with a good brandy. And then, you've got something.

• Grandma : Simple things are all that counts, Johnny. Some seed for good ground. Rain and sun to bring 'em up. Wood for fire when the snow comes. A night like this. Some good neighbors, of course. Just plain people, with common decency, loyalty, honesty. Nothing else counts.

• Grandma : You rabid old drunkard. This is no roadhouse. Get him out, Willie!