Claudette Colbert credited as playing...
Gerry Jeffers
- Gerry Jeffers: Isn't it wonderful?
- Tom Jeffers: Sensational. But you haven't quite answered my question yet.
- Gerry Jeffers: What question, dear?
- Tom Jeffers: Why this alleged old man gave you - how much is it?
- Gerry Jeffers: Seven hundred dollars.
- Tom Jeffers: Seven hundred dollars. Why?
- Gerry Jeffers: No reason.
- Tom Jeffers: Oh, is that so? He just - seven hundred dollars? Just like that?
- Gerry Jeffers: Just like that.
- Tom Jeffers: I mean, sex didn't even enter into it.
- Tom Jeffers: Oh, but of course it did, darling. I don't think he'd have given it to me if I had hair like excelsior and little short legs like an alligator. Sex always has something to do with it, dear.
- Tom Jeffers: I see.
- Gerry Jeffers: From the time you're about so big and wondering why your girlfriends' fathers are getting so arch all of a sudden. Nothing wrong - just an overture to the opera that's coming.
- Gerry Jeffers: Don't you know that the greatest men in the world have told lies and let things be misunderstood if it was useful to them? Didn't you ever hear of a campaign promise?
- John D. Hackensacker III: Do you happen to remember how much tip I gave the taxi driver?
- Gerry Jeffers: Well, I didn't see the coin, but from his face, I think it was ten cents.
- John D. Hackensacker III: Tipping is un-American.
- Tom Jeffers: So this fellow gave you the look?
- Gerry Jeffers: At his age it was more of a blink.
- Tom Jeffers: Seven hundred dollars! And sex didn't even enter into it, I suppose?
- Gerry Jeffers: Sex always has something to do with it, dear.
- Gerry Jeffers: [Gerry has just found out that John is one of the richest men in the world] I would step on your face!
- John D. Hackensacker III: That's quite all right, I rather enjoyed it.
- Gerry Jeffers: Twice!
- John D. Hackensacker III: You made quite an impression.
- Gerry Jeffers: I might marry again and I might not. Maybe I'll become an adventuress.
- Tom Jeffers: I can just see you on a 26 foot boat.
- Gerry Jeffers: You're thinking of an adventurer, an adventuress never travels on anything less than a 300 foot long yacht with an 80 man crew.
- John D. Hackensacker III: [Referring to Gerry's husband, whom Gerry has claimed she is divorcing] There is a name for such reptiles, but I won't sully this sweet ocean breeze by mentioning it. I may not be exactly in the best of shape, but if ever I meet this Mr... "Jeffers," I'll thrash him within an inch of his life.
- Gerry Jeffers: Oh, well then I hope you never meet him.
- John D. Hackensacker III: I suppose he's large?
- Gerry Jeffers: Well, he's not small...
- John D. Hackensacker III: That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are *most* in need of a beating up are ALWAYS enormous.
- Princess Centimillia: The who is McGlue?
- Gerry Jeffers: There is no McGlue.
- Princess Centimillia: Well, thank heavens for something. That name!
- Tom Jeffers: Where'd you get that dress?
- Gerry Jeffers: Why, that's what I've been telling you about!
- Tom Jeffers: What's that on your wrist?
- Gerry Jeffers: It's just what you think it is, dear.
- [He looks at the bracelet on her wrist]
- Tom Jeffers: What kind of stones are those?
- Gerry Jeffers: Just what they look like.
- Tom Jeffers: Do you know what it feels like to be strangled by bare hands?
- Gerry Jeffers: [Seeing Princess Centimilla and her male companion, Toto, for the first time] Is that the Prince?
- John D. Hackensacker III: No. The Prince is all washed up. This is something new.
- Gerry Jeffers: He might be a Duke.
- John D. Hackensacker III: Might be her tailor, too. She goes out with anything.
- Tom Jeffers: Funny having to sleep with a sitting-room between us.
- Gerry Jeffers: And the doors locked.
- Tom Jeffers: You don't have to worry about that.
- Gerry Jeffers: You're married to me; that's like saying, you're *blind* to me. For a long time, I've been a part of you, just something to snuggle up to and keep you warm at night, like a blanket, but you can't *see* me any more than you can see the back of your neck.
- Gerry Jeffers: No, I don't want to listen to anything that begins with 'Look, darling,' so that you can get off another noble saying.