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Ann Blyth, Donald O'Connor, Jack Oakie, and Peggy Ryan in The Merry Monahans (1944)

Quotes

The Merry Monahans

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  • Conductor: Just out for a breath of fresh air.
  • Sheila DeRoyce: [while trying to hide Jimmy under a blanket] Yes. The fresh air. It is fresh, isn't it?
  • Conductor: Yes, it is.
  • Sheila DeRoyce: There's nothing so fresh as fresh air because... t's so fresh.
  • Conductor: ...Yeah.
  • Pete Monahan: Did you kids have a good time at the beach today?
  • Patsy Monahan: Oh, sure. I enjoy an occasional dip in the common pleasures of the proletariat.
  • Jimmy Monahan: If you knew what those words meant and could spell 'em, you'd be almost literate.
  • Pete Monahan: It's just that kids need a mother...
  • Patsy Monahan: And they always will until someone makes a big improvement in incubators.
  • Pete Monahan: Give me five bourbons straight, will ya?
  • Bartender: Five?
  • Pete Monahan: Yeah, for me and the four horsemen - Fire, Disease, Death, and Famine.
  • Bartender: Heh, heh, that's a misquotation.
  • Pete Monahan: Yeah, yeah... just get the stuff.
  • Patsy Monahan: It's a nice day.
  • Jimmy Monahan: You said that.
  • Patsy Monahan: Oh, it's got everything: a great big sun, sky -
  • Jimmy Monahan: Yes, yes...
  • Patsy Monahan: Well, I'm just trying to make conversation. I'm in there pitching!
  • Jimmy Monahan: High and outside.

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