Design for Scandal (1941)

Rosalind Russell: Judge Cornelia Porter

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Quotes 

• Jeff Sherman : I said my name is Sherman.

  Judge Cornelia Porter : Your name is Sherman. Now I understand why they feel the way they do down in Georgia.

• Jeff Sherman : What's the matter? Don't you think you ought to have your head sculpt?

  Judge Cornelia Porter : I think I ought to have it examined for standing here talking to you.

• Judge Cornelia Porter : You know, there aren't that many completely honest men - or women, for that matter.

• Walter Caldwell : But it doesn't take much judgment to see that he's not the sort to trust.

  Judge Cornelia Porter : Oh, I'm tired of having much judgment. I spend ten months a year passing judgment on people.

  Walter Caldwell : You certainly didn't pick the right time to stop.

• Walter Caldwell : I don't understand you at all lately. You're not yourself.

  Judge Cornelia Porter : Oh, maybe I am and wasn't before.

• Judge Cornelia Porter : Obstructing justice and contempt are two very interesting charges.

  Jane : I'd take the one that gives him the longest sentence.

  Judge Cornelia Porter : I'll give him both.

• Walter Caldwell : Forcible entry without permission is a crime. Between the hours of sunset and sunset it's a felony. You don't want to commit a new crime just to right an old one, do you?

  Judge Cornelia Porter : Yes, I do. I feel like breaking law as rule.

• Judge Cornelia Porter : I'll put him where he belongs - behind bars.

• Judge Cornelia Porter : [In court]  In all my experience as attorney and judge on the bench, I can frankly say I have never encountered a citizen with so low a regard for the respect due the court, and the ordinary rights of people. So, I now ask that the court impose the severest penalty on this man, Sherman, and his co-defendant, Blair.

• Jeff Sherman : [to Cordelia who's in the witness box]  Did you say to the defendant, Sherman, that you felt in your heart that he was trustworthy?

  Judge Cornelia Porter : Yes.

  Jeff Sherman : And did you believe him when you sat on the cliff in the moonlight, under Point St. Martin's Lighthouse, and looked at him, and he said, 'Darling, I adore you' - did you believe him?

  Judge Cornelia Porter : Then.