The Opposite Sex (1956)
Dolores Gray: Sylvia
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Quotes
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Amanda Penrose : You just can't stand Kay's happiness, can you, Sylvia? It gets you down.
Sylvia Fowler : That's ridiculous. Why should it?
Amanda Penrose : Because she has the grace to be what she is.
Sylvia Fowler : Which is what?
Amanda Penrose : A woman.
Sylvia Fowler : And what are we?
Amanda Penrose : Females. The lost sex. Substituting fashion for passion and the analyst couch for the double bed.
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Sylvia Fowler : You really ought to stop all this writing nonsense and get yourself a husband. One thing about marriage is its so good for a woman's complexion.
Amanda Penrose : A jar of face cream doesn't snore.
Sylvia Fowler : Aw, don't be busy darling. Anyway, that suit is divine! Cuts your waist right in half.
[Amanda walks away. To Olga]
Sylvia Fowler : And puts ten pounds on her hips.
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Dolly DeHaven : What are you four conspiring about?
Kay Hilliard , Sylvia Fowler , Amanda Penrose , Edith Potter : Hello, Dolly!
Dolly DeHaven : Anything unfit to print?
Kay Hilliard : Not today.
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Sylvia Fowler : Don't you be too sure about Phelps.
Edith Potter : Phelps? In a law office?
Sylvia Fowler : Have you ever seen some of those court stenographers, darling? Shorthand isn't all they can take.
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Sylvia Fowler : How long is it now that they've been married?
Edith Potter : Ten years, I think.
Sylvia Fowler : Aw, poor Kay. Well, that's just about the time when it gets to be open season on husbands and Steven is such fair game - with all those pretty little things back stage trying so hard to get ahead.
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Amanda Penrose : Considering the occasion, Sylvia, you could have thought of something more appropriate than ham.
Sylvia Fowler : Oh, I have a tongue sandwich, darling, just for you.
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Sylvia Fowler : Kay, I can't face another piece of pumpernickel.
Kay Hilliard : Oh, you've done a wonderful job, Sylvia. Now relax and enjoy yourself.
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Countess de Brion : Who's the other woman?
Sylvia Fowler : Nobody knows. Not even Winchell.
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Sylvia Fowler : [opening a letter] Air mail special. Its from Edith! She had another girl, you know.
Kay Hilliard : No! I didn't know.
Sylvia Fowler : That makes eight! She says there's nothing to do in the hospital but oil her stomach and write letters.
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Sylvia Fowler : Buzzards! You're nothing but a bunch of buzzards!
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Sylvia Fowler : If I hadn't divorced Howard, I never would have met Buck. Isn't he divine, darling? Now, you're a good judge of horse flesh. Isn't he something?
Crystal Allen : Not bad.
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Sylvia Fowler : You should see the outfit I bought him. More silver than Fort Knox. Just wait until those buzzards get a look at him! Six and a half feet of man and all mine!
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Sylvia Fowler : That trip to Bermuda seems to have done Kay a lot of good.
Amanda Penrose : Yes, there's nothing like getting away from your friends.