Memorable quotes for
The Bad Seed (1956) More at IMDbPro »

[How murderers are executed]
Leroy: They got a little blue chair for little boys and a little pink chair for little girls.
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Christine Penmark: Rhoda, what happened to old Mrs. Post in Witchita?
Rhoda: There was ice on the steps and I slipped and fell against her, and that was all.
Christine Penmark: That was all?
Rhoda: No. I slipped on purpose.
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Christine Penmark: You hit him with the shoes, didn't you? You hit him with the shoes, that's how he got those half moon marks on his forehead and on his hands. Answer me Rhoda. ANSWER ME!
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Monica Breedlove: You sound like Fred Astaire tap tap tapping across the floor .
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Hortense Daigle: Children can be nasty, don't you think?
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Hortense Daigle: I'm drunk. It's a pleasure to stay drunk when your little boy's been killed.
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Leroy: You ask me and I say you don't even feel sorry for what happened to that little boy.
Rhoda: Why should I feel sorry? It was Claude Daigle who got drowned, not me!
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Rhoda: You tell lies like that, you won't go to Heaven when you die!
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Rhoda: You figured out something that never happened and so it's all lies!
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Christine Penmark: Did she kill him? But she's my little girl. And I love her. Oh my baby, my baby!
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Hortense Daigle: He was such a lovely, dear little boy. He used to say I was his sweetheart and he was going to marry me when he grew up. I would laugh so. "No you won't. You'll forget about me long before then. You'll find a prettier girl and marry her." And do you know what he said then? "No, I won't. 'Cause there isn't a prettier girl in the whole world than you are."
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Claudia Fern: Smooth the wrinkles from your brow my dear, your face is so much prettier when smiling.
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Rhoda: Claude was dead. He wouldn't know if he had the medal pinned on him or not.
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Rhoda: What will you give me for a basket of kisses?
Col. Kenneth Penmark: A basket of kisses? Why, I'll give you a basket of hugs!
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Rhoda: I like apricot juice, it doesn't even need ice.
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[last title card]
Title Card: You have just seen a motion picture whose theme dares to be startlingly different. May we ask that you do not divulge the unusual climax of this story. Thank you.
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Emory Wages: Well, I'll be a middle-aged mongoloid from Memphis.
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Leroy: [to Rhoda] I thought I'd seen some mean little gals in my time, but you're the meanest. You wanna know how I know how mean you are? 'Cause I'm mean. I'm smart and I'm mean, and you're smart and you're mean. And you never get caught and I never get caught.
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