- Stephen Blake: Women - well, after all they do make gentlemen of us.
- Tommy Blake: Yes, and that's the trouble!
- Edith Farnham: I know a good story that I never told you before. It's about seven men, and every last one of 'em was eaten up by an alligator.
- Brenda Farnham: [Giggling] I'm gonna like this one.
- Hotel Manager: [When a snowslide has blocked the road on the day of the new lodge's grand opening] 25 waiters, four chefs, a 10-piece jazz band, and two guests... oooh.
- Miss Peabody: So boring for one to eat alone, don't you think?
- Edith Farnham: Yes, but I think perhaps I'd better for your sake. My little daughter has a very bad cold, and I'd hate to give it to you.
- Miss Peabody: Oh, my dear, I never catch cold. I'm bursting with health. Germs run away from me. Ah, hah, they actually run away.
- Edith Farnham: I'm sure they do.
- Stephen Blake: But you see, as a matter of fact, Mrs. Farnham and I have decided to brush up on our esperanto.
- Stephen Blake: Do you take your parents for a couple of half-wits?
- Brenda Farnham: Yes sir!
- Stephen Blake: What? Confound it!
- Edith Farnham: Brenda!
- Stephen Blake: [to Edith] See this muscle?
- [points to upper right arm]
- Stephen Blake: I got that beating helpless women and little children, but I first practiced on cripples!
- Mr. Snirley: That's it - courage is the word. I always tell my students to think of the snow as a great feather bed.
- Stephen Blake: Edith, do I have to do penance all the rest of my life just because I spanked a spoiled child?
- Stephen Blake: Did I ever tell you, you're the best dancer West of the Mississippi?
- Edith Farnham: No. Why didn't you?
- Edith Farnham: Don't tell me the stern Mr. Blake is flirting with me?
- Stephen Blake: Outrageously. Until the road clears, you might as well grin and bear it. Don't forget my proud beauty, it's the only flirting to be had in these parts.
- Edith Farnham: Ha, ha, ha... Just until the road clears, huh?
- Stephen Blake: Welllll.
- Stephen Blake: At last I'm emancipated from being an emancipated parent.
- Edith Farnham: Are you drunk?
- Edith Farnham: Just to get away from that germicidal female, you understand?
- Stephen Blake: Perfectly! I'm the lesser of two evils.
- Edith Farnham: You're practically psychic.
- Brenda Farnham: Why, mother, aren't you going to wear that beautiful gold dress?
- Edith Farnham: And waste it on this morgue? I should say not.
- Edith Farnham: Uh, there's no danger of starvation is there? I mean, we won't have to draw lots to see who's to be eaten first will we?
- Stephen Blake: Say here, do you mean that we, uh, that there won't be any other guests in this barn?
- Edith Farnham: Oh, very cozy, no doubt. But the fact is, I've been buried with one man for several years, and now that I've dug my way out...
- Miss Peabody: Oh, divorced?
- Edith Farnham: Yes.
- Miss Peabody: Well, I feel as if I were looking at a ghost.
- Edith Farnham: Oh, I didn't realize I looked quite that bad.
- Miss Peabody: Oh, ho, no, my dear. You look enchanting - perfectly enchanting. But when I think that at this minute you might be lying beneath ten feet of snow stiff, but stiff.
- Edith Farnham: I didn't realize I had such a narrow escape.
- Miss Peabody: Just a matter of inches, my dear - just inches.
- [She gestures with her thumb and index finger]
- Brenda Farnham: Watch out, you'll catch my cold.
- Edith Farnham: What of it? Some day I'll let you catch mine.
- Mr. Snirley: How fortunate for the boy to have a father's companionship. Though you'd never guess it, I was brought up by a maiden aunt.
- Stephen Blake: Oh, is that so?
- Stephen Blake: [to Mr. Snirley] I thought you said you got winded easily. When I get winded I can't talk.
- Edith Farnham: Brenda, you and I have had a tough time. But just because we had one unfortunate experience, I don't want you to be prejudiced against men all your life.
- Brenda Farnham: But you are.
- Edith Farnham: You see, it is my fault.
- Edith Farnham: Yes, paint - fresh paint.
- Fred Cutler - Hotel Clerk: Well, you see... oh, here's the manager now.
- Stephen Blake: [Arriving at the front desk with the Hotel Manager] My son will be positively sick...
- Hotel Manager: I know it, Mr. Blake, and I'm very, very sorry.
- Stephen Blake: But you must have one room in the hotel that wasn't painted yesterday.
- Hotel Manager: I'm sorry, sir, but I'm afraid not. I'm afraid they're all about the same.
- [Turning to Edith Farnham]
- Hotel Manager: Are, are you bothered by the paint too, Mrs. Farnham?
- Edith Farnham: Me? Oh, no, I find it rather refreshing.
- Stephen Blake: Uh, do you get winded easily?
- Mr. Snirley: Well, as a matter of fact, I do - very. That's what I meant.
- Stephen Blake: I think I changed my mind - go skiing with you after all.
- Hotel Manager: Oh, this is a catastrophe. How can we have a grand opening without people? A thing like this never happened to my hotel at Palm Beach.
- Miss Peabody: The nice looking Mr. Blake. Uh, you really must let me introduce you to him.
- Edith Farnham: No, no thank you. I prefer not to.
- Miss Peabody: Yah hah! Mustn't be shy, eh heh heh. After all, you and he might have been buried together, uh heh, heh, heh - under that avalanche.
- Brenda Farnham: [Upon seeing Tommy with a small fluffy dog] What's that?
- Tommy Blake: It's a dog. Whaddya think it is?
- Brenda Farnham: It's a funny kind of a one.
- Tommy Blake: It isn't either funny. It's a genuine St. Bernard
- Brenda Farnham: A St. Bernard? Why, a St. Bernard's a mammoth big dog.
- Tommy Blake: Well, the man said the California sun kind of withered him a little.
- Stephen Blake: I don't like hysterical women.
- Edith Farnham: Hysterical?
- Stephen Blake: That's what I said - you're hysterical.
- Edith Farnham: I suppose you'll be striking me next.
- Brenda Farnham: You're just like all men. You're just like your own father.
- Tommy Blake: Say, don't you say anything about my father. It's your mother that started all this.
- Brenda Farnham: My mother? Why you dirty little fibber, my mother's the most.. I'll hit you.
- Tommy Blake: [Clenching his fist at her] Go ahead.
- Brenda Farnham: Say, you know, uh, we shouldn't get worn out like this when they can't hear us.