Colleen Dewhurst movie quotes

“In Hollywood, they'll forgive you if you're two-faced, but not if you're two-chinned.”
Colleen Dewhurst

“Anne, you have tricked something out of that imagination of yours that you call romance. Have you forgotten how he gave up the Avonlea school for you so that you could stay here with me? He picked you up everyday in his carriage so that you could study your courses together. Don't toss it away for some ridiculous ideal that doesn't exist.”
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“You set your heart too much on frivolous things and then crash down into despair when you don't get them.”

Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“My current wine is famous all over the island, Rachel Lynde, as you very well know. And the Reverend Allen himself is not opposed to taking a bit when he comes calling. And as for Christian virtue: making a little wine for a refreshment is far less sinful than meddling in other people's affairs!”
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“If she can avoid catastrophe two days in a row, I might have a chance to make up my mind.”

Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“Anne Shirley, I wouldn't trade you for a dozen boys.”
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“- Anne Shirley: Our friendship, it won't ever be the same now. Why can't he just be sensible instead of acting like a sentimental schoolboy?
- Marilla Cuthbert: Because he loves you.”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“- Anne Shirley: Oh, Marilla, you look so elegant!
- Marilla Cuthbert: You don't make important visits in kitchen clothes.”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“- Anne Shirley: Don't you ever imagine things differently from what they are?
- Marilla Cuthbert: No.
- Anne Shirley: Oh Marilla, how much you miss.”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“- Anne Shirley: What would I do without him?
- Marilla Cuthbert: We can't change what God wills.”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“- Anne Shirley: I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.
- Marilla Cuthbert: Well, maybe it does. But I'd rather walk calmly along and do without flying and thud.”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“- Anne Shirley: I wouldn't marry anyone who was really wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
- Marilla Cuthbert: You'll have better sense some day, I hope.”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert