This Was a Woman (1948)

Walter Fitzgerald: Arthur Russell

Quotes 

• Sylvia Russell : I know if I'd been a man id have wanted authority.

  Arthur Russell : Carries a lot of anxieties and responsibilities...

  Sylvia Russell : [chuckles]  PoorArthur. You're not exactly a swashbuckler, are you dear?

  Arthur Russell : No, I suppose Im not.

• Austin Penrose : You know it's grand to find something so unchanged.

  Sylvia Russell : But you believe in change. In progress and in success.

  Austin Penrose : Clever woman, your wife Arthur. Unmasks me in a sentence.

  Arthur Russell : Nothing escapes Sylvia.

  Austin Penrose : Yes, I will admit I'm ambitious, Mrs Russell. When I went to New York I said to myself - the sky's the limit.

  Sylvia Russell : New York must be very stimulating.

  Austin Penrose : Over-stimulating. The city devoted to the creation of needs and wants and desires. A city to goad on the successes and kill off the failures.