The Marrying Kind (1952)

Madge Kennedy: Judge Anne B. Carroll

Quotes 

• Judge Anne B. Carroll : You know, counselor, there's an old saying, there are three sides to every story: yours, his, and the truth.

• Judge Anne B. Carroll : How did you happen to meet?

  Florence (Florrie) Keefer : What's the difference?

  Chet Keefer : It wasn't anything special.

  Florence (Florrie) Keefer : We just - we happened to.

  Chet Keefer : Just a pick-up.

  Florence (Florrie) Keefer : It was not!

  Chet Keefer : Okay, it was not.

• Chet Keefer : The kind of love they got in books and movies, that's not for people. You gotta be more realistic.

  Judge Anne B. Carroll : Why?

• Judge Anne B. Carroll : Let me ask you, Florence, just what did you want out of marriage?

  Florence (Florrie) Keefer : What I didn't get.

  Judge Anne B. Carroll : Such as?

  Florence (Florrie) Keefer : Well, I always thought if I ever got married, the one thing I'd never be anymore was *lonesome*. But the funny thing, you can be it even in the same bedroom with a husband.

• Judge Anne B. Carroll : It is late, isn't it? My husband gets awful irritable when I get home too late too much. There was a writer who once said, "Every human being is a plot." That's right. I wish I had time to hear all of yours. Maybe there'd be a solution if we went deep enough.

• Judge Anne B. Carroll : I wonder if it isn't just wrong-headedness. How do you know what the other one wants, or thinks, or feels?

• Judge Anne B. Carroll : Pretty risky thing, meddling in other people's lives. Advice: always worried when I give it and when I take it.