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Arsenic and Old Lace
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"Arsenic and Old Lace" Quotes

A drama critic discovers that his charming aunts are actually serial killers.

Quotes

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Joseph Kesselring

humor

The world would be a better place if everyone were as charitable as we are.

Joseph Kesselring

charity

I must be going home. I'm expecting a call from Pittsburgh.

Joseph Kesselring

family

It's not what you're doing, dear, so much as whom you're doing it to.

Joseph Kesselring

humor

Aunt Martha: We never dreamed you'd marry a minister. Abby: Teddy isn't a minister, dear. He just preaches in the church.

Joseph Kesselring

marriage

I remember my father saying that good people are always so sure they're right.

Joseph Kesselring

morality

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

Joseph Kesselring

marriagehumor

I'm not a Brewster. I'm the son of a sea-cook!

Joseph Kesselring

identity

The Japanese are very clever, you know. They're making a map of Brooklyn.

Joseph Kesselring

humor

I was a friend of the late Mr. Hoskins. I was with him when he died. He died in my arms.

Joseph Kesselring

death