Fred Astaire credited as playing...
Jervis Pendleton III
- Jervis Pendleton III: Griggs?
- Griggs: Yes?
- Jervis Pendleton III: Have I been rude to you?
- Griggs: Most.
- Jervis Pendleton III: Forgive me. You're utterly charming. You're a little fat boy with wings and a bow and arrow, and I'm very fond of you. Mmm. You're a dandy.
- Ambassador Alexander Williamson: You can't adopt an 18-year-old girl. You can't ask me - they have a *name* for what you're asking me to do.
- Jervis Pendleton III: That is narrow-minded, bigoted and evil.
- Ambassador Alexander Williamson: Jervis, have you any idea how easy it is to lose a job at the State Department these days?
- Jervis Pendleton III: Now, if you don't mind, flip that record.
- Griggs: I beg your pardon?
- Jervis Pendleton III: Flip it. Turn it, you know, over.
- Griggs: No, look, the secretary must have your answer. The mission leaves tomorrow night from Idyllwild Airport. The seriousness of the problem...
- Jervis Pendleton III: I thoroughly understand the seriousness of the French economic situation. Vital lag in industrial production, coal mining output can be stepped up, electric kilowatt hour consumption not up to its potential. Even the agricultural program, of which France has always been the European leader, can be increased. Now, flip that record.
- Griggs: Ah, Jervis, it's beyond my understanding how a man who holds the controlling interest in 34 separate corporations can sit all by himself wasting his time beating these silly tom-toms!
- Jervis Pendleton III: All by myself? Listen, I have one of the finest record collections in the country. I play with the very best bands.
- Griggs: All in all, Miss Andre has a lot to thank you for and she's very devoted to you. She calls you her "Dear Daddy Longlegs."
- Jervis Pendleton III: "Dear Daddy What-legs?"
- Griggs: Well, it has something to do with your shadow crawling on the wall - or a spider...
- Gertrude Pendleton: Oh, Jervis, please remember that you're with me and don't leer.
- Jervis Pendleton III: I wasn't leering. I was just looking around.
- Gertrude Pendleton: I hope you'll remember, they are very young.
- Jervis Pendleton III: Time cannot wither nor custom stale your infinite charm, Gertrude.
- Griggs: Last Christmas, you sent her a nice present.
- Jervis Pendleton III: I did? What?
- Griggs: Three pairs of... silk pajamas.
- Jervis Pendleton III: Griggs!
- Griggs: All right. Miss Pritchard selected them.
- Jervis Pendleton III: I have no intention of revealing myself. I'm simply going up there to visit my niece. And while I'm there, I'll get a look at my orphan.
- Jervis Pendleton III: Isn't there, uh, someplace we could go? In the garden perhaps? Or maybe that would be bad for your reputation.
- Julie Andre: Uh, it would. Come on. Let's destroy my reputation.
- Ambassador Alexander Williamson: You've obviously swept her off her feet. You're older than she is. That's always very attractive. You're rich, and that's even more attractive. You've changed her life completely, for which she must be very grateful.
- Jervis Pendleton III: She doesn't know anything about that. She doesn't know that I'm her Daddy...
- Ambassador Alexander Williamson: Daddy what? Daddy Sugar?
- Jervis Pendleton III: [singing] When an irresistible force, Such as you, Meets an old immovable object, Like me, You can bet as sure as you live, Something's gotta give, Something's gotta give, Something's gotta give...
- Ambassador Alexander Williamson: King David.
- Jervis Pendleton III: What are you talking about?
- Ambassador Alexander Williamson: David sent Uriah into battle because he coveted Bathsheba.
- Jervis Pendleton III: She's never seen you before. You fit her description of me better than I do myself, you old fuddy-duddy.