- Library Patron Seeking Aphrodite: [Loudly] Say, where can I get an illustrated copy of "Aphrodite?"
- Miss Margaret Gordon, the Librarian: Young man, you're evidently unaware that that book is not in circulation.
- Daisy: Take ya out to dinner tonight, Allie.
- Allie Smith Riggs: Well, thanks Daisy. I'd love to have dinner with you. We'll go Dutch.
- Daisy: Uh, uh. The boyfriend's entertaining, and he's got a guy that's crazy to meet you, Allie.
- Allie Smith Riggs: A blind date? No thanks!
- Daisy: Oh, this guy Pete's got ain't blind. Gee Allie, he'd go for ya in a big way!
- Allie Smith Riggs: Well, I don't want to be gone for.
- Daisy: [whining] Awww gosh. Aw gee, Allie, don't be a wet smack all your life.
- Allie Smith Riggs: I'm not a wet smack, Daisy, I'm just particular who I go out with.
- Daisy: How about giving Rudy Vallee a buzz?
- Allie Smith Riggs: Ya think he'd buzz back?
- Charlie Riggs: I hope you're a good dancer.
- Maisie: Say, dancin's my business.
- Charlie Riggs: Ever mix business with pleasure?
- Maisie: What's your idea of pleasure?
- Charlie Riggs: What's yours?
- Maisie: [Doing a little shimmy in place] Boop-boop-a-doop!
- [last lines]
- Charlie Riggs: Gee, Allie you're the swellest dame in this whole cockeyed world.
- Allie Smith Riggs: Go wash your face. It's a sight.
- Allie Smith Riggs: [Looking at a Chinese menu] Well, I don't know what this all means - but, it looks exciting. Now, what's that?
- Pete: That's bird's nest zuop!
- Allie Smith Riggs: What kinda bird?
- Pete: Cuckoo.
- Pete: I don't know what it is about a mug like Charlie Riggs. Every time you dames lay eyes on him, you start going crazy.
- Charlie Riggs: I see you got that tie on again. Won't you never learn not to wear red after six o'clock?
- Charlie Riggs: Sure is swell to come up after a hard day's work at the office and find a couple of swell-lookin' gals waitin' for ya.
- Charlie Riggs: Say, you ought to be in the movies with that face.
- Allie Smith Riggs: Sure, I'd make a swell target for custard pies.
- Pete: I thought you were selling real estate up in Westchester?
- Charlie Riggs: Not selling, slug, buying!
- Pete: Buying, what?
- Charlie Riggs: Land! To build a movie studio on.
- Charlie Riggs: Say, you'd go swell in pictures, Miss Smith. Your eyes - they got soul in 'em. No kiddin'. I'm tellin' ya! With your looks, you'd be a real find.
- Pete: It won't be long now. You go ahead and finesse your Queen. We're gonna make this rubber.
- Daisy: Ya, let's dance.
- Pete: [to Miss Smith] Don't let him sell ya anything you woudn't take home to your mother.
- Charlie Riggs: The last time I handed anybody a line was on a moonlite night in Calcutta.
- Allie Smith Riggs: Oh, have you been to Calcutta?
- Charlie Riggs: Sure, I've been all over. Calcutta. Rangoon. Mandalay.
- Charlie Riggs: Only once did I see blue like you got in your eyes and that was on the China sea, one morning, after a typhoon.
- Allie Smith Riggs: It must be wonderful to go to all of those places. I've often dreamed about them.
- Charlie Riggs: Yeah. Well, I'm gonna do some dreamin' myself tonight, but, it's not going to be about geography.
- [Runs his finger down the collar of Allie's jacket]
- Charlie Riggs: [Sarcastically] Swell fixer you turned out to be!
- Pete: I should get tomaters for you!
- Pete: Hey, Adonis, come on, will ya. Hurry up. We got places to go.
- Daisy: Yeah, come on! Shake a leg!
- Charlie Riggs: Alright. Alright! Keep your shirt on!
- Allie Smith Riggs: Sometimes I do get lonely, but, not for people. I get lonely - for thinking of places I've never been to. You know, far away places. Rangoon. Mandalay. Have you ever felt that way?
- Miss Margaret Gordon, the Librarian: Yes, in deed.
- Allie Smith Riggs: And, maybe - maybe somebody to be there with you. Somebody you can be proud of and look up to. You don't know who? I guess all girls are that way when they're my age. Just crazy-headed!
- Maisie: Say, you don't have to tell me how to handle these babies, honey. I've worked at every taxi dance joint between here and 14th Street.
- Charlie Riggs: Why should I waste my liquor on you? Are you a good lookin' dame?
- Pete: Well, no, but I can fix one up for ya.
- Maisie: Do you wanna dance?
- Charlie Riggs: Sure, I guess so.
- Maisie: Well, don't break your ankle gettin' up.
- Charlie Riggs: Wisecracker, heh?
- Maisie: No, just a little girl tryin' to get along.
- Maisie: Whaddaya mean you could go for me in a big way?
- Charlie Riggs: You look like a million bucks.
- Maisie: And just as hard to get.
- Charlie Riggs: [Dancing cheek-to-cheek] Oh, mamie!
- Maisie: Daddy!
- Charlie Riggs: Whaddaya doin' tonight?
- Maisie: Got any ideas?
- Charlie Riggs: Plenty.
- Maisie: Oh, why don't you get wise to yourself. Good time Charlie. You've been foolin' nobody but yourself. What a sap to be runnin' around loose. Why don't you go home to that dumb cluck you married!
- Charlie Riggs: You'll keep my wife's name out of your dirty mouth!
- Maisie: Oh, she's nothin' but a -
- [gets slapped]
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