Marnie (1964)

Diane Baker: Lil Mainwaring

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• Lil Mainwaring : I'm queer for liars.

• Lil Mainwaring : How do you take your tea, Miss Taylor?

  Marnie Edgar : Usually with a cup of hot water and a tea bag.

• Mark Rutland : You should try to be Marnie's friend.

  Lil Mainwaring : I always thought a girl's best friend was her mother!

• Lil Mainwaring : Is Mark in there? I looking for a free lunch and somebody to cash a check for me. I thought I'd stick Mark for the lunch and you for the cash.

• Mark Rutland : Lil, what is it you're up to? Out with it.

  Lil Mainwaring : Me? I'm just offering you my services. Guerrilla fighter, perjurer, intelligence agent.

• Lil Mainwaring : Mark, listen. I'm a good fighter if you need me. I mean, if you are in some kind of trouble. I have absolutely no scruples.

• Lil Mainwaring : Hello, Mr Sam. How's the curmudgeon business?

• Lil Mainwaring : Who's the dish?

• Lil Mainwaring : I can't!

  Mark Rutland : "When duty whispers low, thou must. Then youth replies, I can."

  Lil Mainwaring : Ratfink! And you misquoted!

• Mark Rutland : Strong with a dash of rum for me.

  Mr. Rutland : Spinster's tea. Mucking up tea with strong drink. Something sneaky about it, eh?

  Lil Mainwaring : What's your opinion, Miss Taylor? Do you think old Mark here is a sneaky one?

  Marnie Edgar : Possibly.

• Lil Mainwaring : I always thought that a girl's best friend was her mother. Poor old Mark. Is her mother that ghastly? I mean, when the in-laws are so grim, you don't dare have them to the wedding. The usual excuse is poor health or the strain of the trip, you know? But to claim they're dead, now, come on!

• Lil Mainwaring : Don't patronise me, Mark! That Mary-Marnie, brown-haired blonde you married so fast and sneaky and tried to hustle off to the South Pacific, for Pete's sake! I didn't have to overhear stuff about your not intending to go to jail too, to know that you're in some sort of fix.