Quotes

Lady for a Day

Happy McGuire: I'm goin' over to the insane asylum and hobnob with a few sensible people.

Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville': If we gotta dig up a husband for Annie, let's to it and get it over with.
Happy McGuire: Yeah, now you gotta dig up a husband for her.
Happy McGuire: [shouting] Where you gonna get a husband just like that?
Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville': What about YOU, Happy?
Happy McGuire: Me?
Missouri Martin: Oh, that's a swell idea. I think you'd be just precious.
Happy McGuire: That's a wonderful idea; there's one thing stands in the way: I've got a wife that's very fussy. She don't like for me to go around marryin' people! I know how unreasonable that must sound to you, but she's very funny that way.

Oscar: [about working in a hotel] People don't leave things in their rooms anymore. Do you know it's got so bad I gotta buy me own toothpaste?

Judge Henry G. Blake: Never in all my questionable career have I gazed upon such divine lovliness.

Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville': For years Annie's been lucky to me, ain't she?
Happy McGuire: What?
Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville': Well, what kind of luck would I have if I passed her up at a time like this?

Missouri Martin: [bringing in her entourage to work on Apple Annie] Say, when they get through with her, she's gonna look every bit as good as me.
Happy McGuire: The idea is to make her look like a lady.

Happy McGuire: Say, listen, Babcock wore out the seats of two pair of pants just sitting around on his El Fideldo.

Judge Henry G. Blake: It was a wise old sage who said that every man over forty should be exterminated.
Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville': Yeah, who said that?
Judge Henry G. Blake: I dunno, but someone should've said it.

Apple Annie: [to a cop helping himself to an apple for free] Come around to the house sometime. I got a lot of silverwear hanging around loose.

Shakespeare: Hey, Dude, you mind if I have an idea?
Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville': Yeah?
Shakespeare: Well, this here society friend of yours, uh... Rodney Kent, he's got an apartment at The Marberry...
Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville': He has, so what about it? What about it? Can you picture me goin' to Rodney Kent and sayin' "Lend me your apartment for Apple Annie?" He'd throw me out on my ear.
Shakespeare: Huh. That's just what I was gonna say. He'd throw you out on your ear.
Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville': Shut up abut it, then!
Shakespeare: I was just gonna do that.

Count Romero: Well look at this, billiards. Why did you not tell me you had a billiard room?
Judge Henry G. Blake: Do you play?
Count Romero: Do I play? Señor in Valencia I am champion!
Judge Henry G. Blake: Well isn't that just. You don't say?

Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville': I got it, I got just the one! Judge Henry G. Blake!
Missouri Martin: Who's he?
Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville': For a proposition like this we got to have a guy who talks classy don't we? Well Judge Blake is the classiest talker in town!

Happy: I'm a first class monkey if l can see how you can win pots by buying apples from old dames.

Missouri Martin: [singing] Oh, honest, I'm not jokin', Since my passion began, I'm so hot I'm smokin', I want a man!

Missouri Martin: All right, come on you flesh pounders, this is going to be a sweet job.

Happy: Babcock wore out the seats of two pairs of pants just sittin' around on his "El Fideldo".

Happy McGuire: [reading Rodney Kent's telegram in response to requesting the lending of his apartment] The whole thing sounds insane to me... but, go ahead, use the apartment. My only request is make certain no one puts mustaches on the paintings.

Happy McGuire: You got a great racket Annie. You get a couple more suckers like the Duke, you can retire in a year.
Apple Annie: Aw, pull up your chin, Happy. You're liable to step on it.

Happy McGuire: Well, I give up. When Louis the Lug becomes the ambassador to Turkey, I don't wanna be around anymore.

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