- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: You always get your way with women, don't you?
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: If I said no, I'd be a liar; if I said yes, I'd be a fool.
- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: Come on, here's your cocktail.
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: Thanks. What's this, a Highball?
- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: Mm-hmm.
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: Scotch! You don't drink Scotch. I'm betrayed! Woman, what man's been here?
- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: Wouldn't you like to know!
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: Oh, well, uh... I, uh... anyone I know?
- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: None of your business.
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: Of course it's none of my business; that doesn't satisfy my curiosity. If we were married, I wouldn't have any curiosity.
- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: [laughing] Darling, I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on earth!
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: If I were the last man on earth, you wouldn't have to. As a public institution, I'd have too many responsibilities.
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: Dear, don't ever become a slave to it.
- Doris 'Dodo' Baldwin: About all there is for a girl in this man's town.
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: Oh, don't you believe it.
- Doris 'Dodo' Baldwin: What else is there? Can you imagine mother if I went in a trade or on the stage or something?
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: How about marrying a nice young fellow that's really worth while?
- Doris 'Dodo' Baldwin: And spending the rest of my life keeping him sober? That's a career!
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: No, I don't mean that, dear. I mean really helping develop his possibilities. You might even help him become President - if that job ever becomes desirable again.
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: You should make your work suit your mood. When I get low, I design City Halls for Philadelphia. Eventually, they make dandy mausoleums.
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: We all have our dreams. Some of us are fortunate enough to have those dreams realized. This building imbedded in rock, but built upon an ideal, reminds us that man never builds alone. There's always a woman besides him. And to this woman whose sound advice and deep understanding is responsible for what little success I may have achieved. And who is really responsible for the fulfillment of my dream: this building. To that woman, I humbly offer my heartfelt thanks.
- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: Larry, you and I know this love of ours is right, it's beautiful. We haven't hurt anybody and we haven't done any wrong. But with Clark, it's different. You see, he, he isn't just like a brother, I brought him up. He thinks I'm perfect.
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: You are perfect!
- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: But Darling, he'd never understand! To him I'm... I'm his ideal. You? Why, he'd see you as just somebody else's husband.
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: Mattie, what's the matter with the service around here?
- Mattie, Natalie's maid: I'm sorry, Mr. Baldwin, but I was busy in the kitchen.
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: You were? Well, the only way you can square yourself with me is to get me a nice big Highland with a lot of ice.
- Mattie, Natalie's maid: [laughs] Yes, sir.
- Doris 'Dodo' Baldwin: [Playing pool] Hello, darling.
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: Hello, sweet. Want a game?
- Doris 'Dodo' Baldwin: You can't. You've just got time to dress.
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: Ha-ha. I'm not going.
- Doris 'Dodo' Baldwin: What? You lucky so-and-so. How'd you get out of it?
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: Oh, business.
- Doris 'Dodo' Baldwin: Pretty nifty. Shall I start this?
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: Why, surely. What are daughters for?
- Doris 'Dodo' Baldwin: For suger.
- [kiss]
- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: [Showing her new fashion drawing] Do you think it will be successful?
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: Indecently successful, yes.
- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: What's the matter with it? It's long, long skirt?
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: Yes, that's what makes it harder and more interesting.
- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: You should know.
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: There you go. Always making me out a Don Juan. When its hot, I'm just a little boy in rompers.
- Doris 'Dodo' Baldwin: I'm not going to make any more advances.
- Clarke Upton: You know why I can't make any advances.
- Doris 'Dodo' Baldwin: I do not! I've been advanced on before.
- Clarke Upton: You know I love you, Dodo.
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: You know, we'd make a marvelous team.
- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: Why, Link. I never of you to propose twice in one evening?
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: Well, you design dresses and I design buildings.
- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: What's the connection?
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: Behind every skyscraper is a woman. You dress them up and make them beautiful. Then some poor fellow comes along and puts up a skyscraper to lay at their feet.
- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: Oh, I see. So thats the way it works, is it?
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: Yes.
- Natalie 'Nat' Upton: All those streets lined with skyscrapers where built by women. What about the alleys?
- Linkhorne 'Link' Gibson: A woman.
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: There, how's that for a run?
- Doris 'Dodo' Baldwin: I'm glad it's over.
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: Oh, you are, are you?
- Doris 'Dodo' Baldwin: Because I want to kiss you.
- [plants a kiss on her father's lips]
- Doris 'Dodo' Baldwin: Oh, I know how it is, darling.
- Lawrence 'Larry' Baldwin: It's the only way to be happy, sweet.