- Hatcheck girl: Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!
- Maudie: Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
- Miss Mabel Jellyman: Maudie, do you believe in love at first sight?
- Maudie: I don't know, but it saves an awful lot of time.
- Frankie Guard: You'll happen to have some visitors one of these nights.
- Joe Anton: Heh, heh! Well, that's really funny! Will you do me a favor, Frankie?
- Frankie Guard: Sure, Joe, anytime.
- Joe Anton: Will you tell Gaston and his mob the sooner they come around, the better I'll like it? You know these quiet evenings are getting on my nerves, and a little excitement would be as welcome as the flowers in May.
- Frankie Guard: I'll tell him that, Joe.
- Joe Anton: Don't forget.
- Frankie Guard: Leave it to me, and speaking of flowers, what sort would you prefer?
- Joe Anton: Oh, anything at all except pansies.
- Frankie Guard: Your last wish will be fulfilled...
- Miss Jerry Healy: Where's Mr. Anton?
- Leo: Aw, he - he's around. Something I can do for you?
- Miss Jerry Healy: Yes, tell me where he is.
- Leo: Sit down. I'll see if I can find him.
- Miss Jerry Healy: I won't sit down.
- Leo: Then stand up, and I'll see if I can find him.
- Miss Mabel Jellyman: Maudie, do you really think I could get rid of my inhibitions?
- Maudie: Why, sure. I got an old trunk you can put them in.
- Miss Mabel Jellyman: Hotcha!
- Joe Anton: You think you'd come over here if you didn't want me? This rough-housing the place is just a fancy way of putting it.
- Joe Anton: I can't stand it no more. I'm sick of the smell of booze. I'm sick of noise. I'm sick of being a pal to a lot of drunks. I'm not getting anyplace!
- Leo: What are you talkin' about? Ain't you the owner of the swellest speak in New York? And how long ago was it when you was a third-rate pug, takin' it on the chin?
- Leo: Hey, what is this thing you've got with women? They always come back.
- Joe Anton: Say, I'm through knockin' around with every dame I ever went with.
- Leo: Even Maudie?
- Joe Anton: Yes! Even Maudie. But she was pretty swell to me in the old days, at that.
- Leo: She seemed pretty classy to ya then.
- Joe Anton: No cracks.
- Joe Anton: How did he get where he got?
- Miss Mabel Jellyman: I thought we'd agreed not to use the word "got".
- Joe Anton: I'm doin' pretty good, ain't I?
- Miss Mabel Jellyman: Oh, excellently, but not "ain't I" - "am I not".
- Joe Anton: Look. If you're lonesome, I won't bother you, see? I mean, if you're just lonesome, I can't make you any unlonesomer. Get me?
- Miss Jerry Healy: I'll tell you all about it.
- Dick Bolton: My ears are yours. Maybe that's all you want of me.
- Dick Bolton: Good night, Mrs. Bolton.
- Miss Jerry Healy: Good night, Mr. Healy.
- [Bolton smiles and leaves]
- Joe Anton: I'm afraid I - you got me guessing again.
- Miss Jerry Healy: Oh, a little gaiety is all it means, Mr. Anton.
- Joe Anton: I'll give you a high sign like this and that means you blow.
- Miss Mabel Jellyman: Blow? Blow what?
- Joe Anton: There's a lady comin' to dinner tonight that I can't afford to pull any boners with, because...
- Miss Mabel Jellyman: Boners?
- Iris Dawn: He's mine and no gal from Park Avenue can come in and take him away from me.
- Leo: He's only showin' the gal to a cab. He's tryin' to be polite.
- Iris Dawn: Polite! That's what I don't like about it. A mug tryin' to be a gentleman.
- Leo: Now, listen. No cracks about him or I'll punch you right in the nose.
- Miss Jerry Healy: You're not thinking of closing?
- Joe Anton: You never can tell. I have some friends that may drop around any evening now.
- Miss Jerry Healy: Oh, friends, huh?
- Joe Anton: Yeah, just pals with a gun in each pocket.
- Miss Jerry Healy: You lead a happy life, don't you?
- Joe Anton: Do I?
- Miss Jerry Healy: Um-hmm. The pirates of today.
- Joe Anton: That's funny. I just finished reading a pirate story. They stole a lot of women in it.
- Miss Jerry Healy: Happy days!
- Miss Jerry Healy: Have you had your dinner?
- Maudie: Yes, and a lovely one. But I could go for some of that stuff in the bottle.
- Maudie: Honey, remember our last bout with champagne? Why, say, we got so plastered - why they threw us out in the gutter and it took five waiters to do it. Yes and not only that, it took five cops to land us in jail. Oh, Joe, it's just life to see ya! Come here. Crawl to me, baby! Crawl to me.
- Miss Mabel Jellyman: Life is very sad. This is the first happy time I've had since I was 27.
- Maudie: You've been buried, dearie.
- Joe Anton: What kind of guy do you think I am? I never turned a pal down in my life and you know it.
- Maudie: Your glass is empty.
- Miss Mabel Jellyman: No, no. I couldn't drink anymore.
- Maudie: Now listen, Mabel, if you're gonna be Broadway, you got to learn to take it. You may as well break in the act right now. I say, this night will read great in your diary.
- Miss Mabel Jellyman: You said it, baby.
- Leo: Why, you lying little rat! Double-cross me, huh? I've got a good mind to throw you out the window.
- Joe Anton: She kissed me!
- Leo: You told me that before!
- Joe Anton: All right, I'll tell you again. You don't mind, do you?
- Leo: Well, I'm a little tired, but I don't mind.
- Joe Anton: Well, she kissed me. She must love me.
- Leo: How do you know she does?
- Joe Anton: Because she kissed me and a kiss is a kiss, ain't it?
- Leo: I don't know anything about them women.
- Joe Anton: What do you mean, ''them women''?
- Leo: Well, maybe they kiss because they like it.
- Joe Anton: They kiss because they love it.
- Leo: All right, maybe they love it, but maybe they don't love the guy they kiss.
- Joe Anton: Well, what do they kiss 'em for?
- Leo: Because they love to kiss!
- Joe Anton: Ah, what do you know?
- Leo: You're right. Nobody ever kisses me.
- Maudie: See, I'm openin' a new place here in New York. I'm callin' it ''The Institute de Beaut''. Not bad, huh?
- Maudie: Why, dearie, you're wasting time. Why, a gal with your poise and class, you'd make thousands in my business.
- Miss Mabel Jellyman: Your business! Are you asking me to come into your business?
- Maudie: Why, of course. Why not? It's one of the best payin' rackets in the world.
- Miss Mabel Jellyman: Oh! Oh, of course I - I recognize that your business has been a great factor in the building of civilization. And, of course, it has protected our good women and thereby preserved the sanctity of the home. And there, there were such women as Cleopatra, and, of course, France owes a great deal to Du Barry, and - but me, dear? Don't you think I'm just a little old?
- Maudie: Say, what kind of a business do you think I'm in?
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