Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Jewel Mayhew:
Well, right here on the public street, in the light of day, let me tell you, Miriam Deering, that murder starts in the heart, and its first weapon is a vicious tongue.

Miriam:
Why wouldn't I tell him that his pure, darling little girl was having a dirty little affair with a married man?

Charlotte:
You're a vile, sorry little b*tch!

Miriam:
You just can't keep hogs away from the trough, can you?

Velma Cruther:
I just come for my things.

Miriam:
Is my cousin one of your things?

Miriam:
What is it that you don't believe Drew? That I'm here, or that I look the way I do?

Charlotte:
What do you think I asked you here for? COMPANY?

Charlotte:
Get out, Luke Standish! You smirkin' Judas!

Velma Cruther:
Think I don't know a due bill when I see one?

Harry Willis:
You're my favorite living mystery.

Charlotte:
Have you ever solved me?

Velma Cruther:
So you're finally showin' the right side of your face. Well, I seen it all along. That's some kinda drug you been givin' her. Isn't it? It's what's been making her act like she's been. Well, Ah'm goin' into town and Ah'm tellin them what you been up to.

Miriam:
[Arriving at Charlotte's house] They say places you knew as a child always seem smaller than your memory of them. It's not true!

Big Sam Hollis:
I can't even look at Charlotte without ugly thoughts rip my guts! I'd sooner it been one of my field boys.

Miriam:
My dress. Somebody slashed my dress!

Big Sam Hollis:
[speaking, angrily, to John Mayhew] This house, this plantation, this whole damned parish belonged to my family, before your *people* stepped aboard the stinkin' cattle boat that brought 'em to this country. Don't you dare talk back to me, boy! My family's seen this state crawlin' with lousy carpetbaggers that knew more about behaving like a gentleman than you do!

Big Sam Hollis:
[speaking, angrily, to John Mayhew] My daddy sat out there on that veranda. Let this whole place slide to dust. When he died there was nothin' but debts and dirt. I touched that dirt and made it blossom. I fought to keep this house and to bring it back up!

Big Sam Hollis:
[going over to Charlotte's portrait on the wall] I don't have a son to give it to - only Charlotte. And she ain't gonna' give it to you. You ain't gonna' have my home or my child. I created both and I'm gonna' keep 'em.

Big Sam Hollis:
[now confronting John Mayhew] I haven't watched over my girl all these years to have some... to have someone... to have some *creature* like you take her away.

Jewel Mayhew:
[sternly and coldly] Go away from me. I'm ill. I'm... very ill. I won't give up one more thing to you... not even one more minute.

Miriam:
You idiot. You wretched idiot! He's dead. And you killed him!

Charltte:
You don't know how mean and hateful she can BE!