Eleanor Sherman quotes from The Critic

(On the phone) Jay, this is your mother. Your father and I are taking you out of our will. We feel you already have enough money. Oh yes, and Happy Birthday.

The debutantes' ball is a Wigglesworth tradition! To starve yourself to fit into a dress, to dance with boys who feel you up and to drink so much you fall into a well. It's a magical night.

I was just going to give you some rubber bands to play with...but if you want to, you can come.

I think you media jackals are a pack of filthy muck-raking scum! What you people did to poor Dan Quayle is a disgrace! I hate you all! Except for you good people at the New Yorker.

(After Franklin transforms and behaves like The Mask) Oh dear. This is just what he did at Nixon's funeral.