- Grandma: After all, time does heal all wounds.
- Johnny Jones: Does it?
- Grandma: No arguing about it. There's no arguing with any of the old sayings because that's why they are old 'cause they tell the truth, and the truth lasts.
- Grandma: You know about Satan and idle hands, don't you?
- Johnny Jones: Oh yes! I've heard about them. Both!
- Johnny Jones: What kind of brandy is this?
- Bill Smith: Blackberry - speciality of Grandma's.
- Grandma: Blackberries will do a lot for you, if you just squeeze them and then leave them alone.
- Charlie Gephardt - Grandma's Hired Hand: Works the same way with the women folks.
- Grandma: Charlie, get out.
- Charlie Gephardt - Grandma's Hired Hand: I was just thinkin' out loud, ma'am.
- Grandma: Sit down, Miss Jones. There where I can see you.
- Johnny Jones: Thank you.
- Grandma: Pretty, aren't you?
- Johnny Jones: [embarrassed] oh!
- Grandma: Never mind me. When you get old, time is too precious to waste. If people are pretty, you tell them so. And you're pretty.
- Bill Smith: I've had a poem running through my mind for a long time now. It's one that Christopher Marlowe wrote. It's... uh... well, listen. "Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove that hills and valleys, dales and fields, woods or craggy mountains yield. And I will make ye beds of roses and a thousand fragrant posies... and... and..." something, something, something, something... "and if these pleasures do ye move, come live with me and be my love."
- Johnny Jones: You see, I have to have a husband, and you said you weren't married. So...?
- Bill Smith: Well, Miss Jones, a wife is just what I don't need.
- Johnny Jones: But you do need money. I thought we could trade. I'll have a husband, and you'll have money.
- Bill Smith: My name's Smith.
- Johnny Jones: My name's Jones.
- Taxi Driver: Let's see - Smith and Jones, and I'm Snow White.
- Barton Kendrick: Why do you have this pink mirror? You can't get a good look at yourself in it?
- Diana Kendrick: Ah, but you can see what you want to see. Any woman looking into that mirror, sees a young girl of 16 looking back at her.
- Barton Kendrick: Well, it's a nice idea; but, its hardly realistic.
- Diana Kendrick: Oh, but it's such a comfort not to be realistic. You see, just before I go out, the last thing I do is take a look at my pink mirror. And there I am. Young, fresh and glowing! And that's the way I think of myself all evening.
- Barton Kendrick: Well what are we going to do?
- Johnny Jones: We are going to take what's left to us. Why, we haven't even a minute to waste on being sad. Come on, let's hurry!
- Barton Kendrick: Well where should we go?
- Johnny Jones: Oh I don't care. Just so there are people and music and we can be gay!
- Grandma: Part of living is meeting tragedy and rising above it. A woman doesn't amount to anything unless she can do it. It takes a long while to learn that that's true.
- Johnny Jones: Thank you for telling me.
- Johnny Jones: Mr. Smith, it's such a wonderful thing.
- Bill Smith: Why?
- Johnny Jones: That you haven't any money.
- Taxi Driver: And I thought I'd heard everything.
- Bill Smith: [as he and Johnny enter his apartment] It's just a little place, but its dreary.
- [Pointing out his empty book case]
- Bill Smith: If you want to browse among my books, the pawnshop's just around the corner.
- Bill Smith: Would you like to have some music? I could open the window and get the radio from across the street.
- Johnny Jones: I came here to ask you to marry me.
- Bill Smith: Why?
- Johnny Jones: Because you have no money.
- Bill Smith: [looking befuddled] Well, this is so sudden.
- Johnny Jones: I was afraid you wouldn't understand.
- Bill Smith: Yeah, yeah, well, I see your point.
- Arnold Stafford: I'm not late, am I?
- Diana Kendrick: You're never late, Arnold. It's your only virtue.
- Arnold Stafford: Oh, not at all. I also never do card tricks.
- Arnold Stafford: Can we give you a lift somewhere?
- Barton Kendrick: No thanks, old man - you go along. Mustn't keep my wife waiting, you know.
- Arnold Stafford: I never do.
- Bill Smith: All right. Laundry, a buck.
- Johnny Jones: Laundry, a buck. A buck?
- Bill Smith: A dollar, a dollar. Food, $5.00.
- Bill Smith: But that's not enough.
- Johnny Jones: It's enough for me. I'm no capitalist. Let's see, now. Oh, razor blades and typewriter paper. And toothpaste and soap and envelopes. Put that all under incidentals. $5.00.
- Bill Smith: $5.00 for all that?
- Johnny Jones: All right, make it 4.50.
- Bill Smith: But I mean...
- Johnny Jones: 4.50. Put it down! And that's all.
- Bill Smith: What about carfare?
- Johnny Jones: I'm not going anywhere.
- Bill Smith: Oh, cigarettes. 30 cents a day is...
- Johnny Jones: 30 cents a week. I'll roll my own.
- Bill Smith: [when there's a knock at the door while Bill tries to make a move with Johnny] Disturbing people in the middle of the night. I'll bet this never happened to a firefly.
- Joe Darsie: Did you ever go on the bum?
- Bill Smith: Once I did it.
- Joe Darsie: Yeah? How'd you do?
- Bill Smith: [looking at a cigarette in his hand] Well, I got a cigarette.
- Joe Darsie: You could do it if you wanted to. You could be a swell bum.
- Bill Smith: I'm the type?
- Joe Darsie: It's like everything else. All you got to do is make up your mind and stick to it. Then you're it. Whatever you pick out, you can't miss.
- Bill Smith: To be a bum, you got to have willpower.
- Joe Darsie: [pointing to wealthy man in a limousine] Oh, I ain't kidding, mister. Thirty years ago, I made up my mind and I done all right, too. Look. What has he got on me?
- Bill Smith: A limousine.
- Joe Darsie: Mmhmm, and stomach ulcers.
- Bill Smith: There may be something in what you say. Well, good luck.
- Joe Darsie: [pulling out roll of bills and hands one out] Wait a minute, brother. Could you use a buck?
- Bill Smith: You save your money, mister. Times ain't that tough.
- Joe Darsie: No? Well, they could be.
- Bill Smith: [turning to leave] Looks as though they will be. So long.
- Joe Darsie: [watching Joe go] It's too bad. He could be a swell bum if he only had the willpower.
- Diana Kendrick: Men are really mysterious creatures, Yvonne.
- Yvonne: Yes, Mrs. Kendrick. All of them.
- Barton Kendrick: Women are really mysterious creatures, Yvonne.
- Yvonne: Yes, Mr. Kendrick. All of them.
- Barton Kendrick: I think New York's rather a nice city.
- Diana Kendrick: It has its points - especially in the Spring.
- Barton Kendrick: There's always a sense of excitement. You feel anything can happen.
- Diana Kendrick: Anything can. And yet, somehow it's safe too.
- Barton Kendrick: You like safety, don't you?
- Diana Kendrick: Yes, I do. Don't you?
- Barton Kendrick: Well, I'm not so sure. It might be dull.
- Diana Kendrick: Possibly.
- Arnold Stafford: You know, your husband's much too broadminded.
- Diana Kendrick: I should think you'd be the last one to complain about that.
- Arnold Stafford: Husbands ought to be jealous! It's the traditional thing.
- Diana Kendrick: Barton and I don't believe in tradition. Ours is a modern marriage.
- Arnold Stafford: You poor dear.
- Diana Kendrick: I like my marriage. It's just the way I want it.
- Arnold Stafford: You lie, thank goodness.
- Diana Kendrick: I do not. Barton and I have a *perfect* understanding.
- Arnold Stafford: Uh-huh.
- Diana Kendrick: What do you mean uh-huh?
- Arnold Stafford: I mean, uh huh, whenever I hear a wife boasting about how modern her marriage is, I say, to myself, that is, "Uh-huh, her husband's straying off the reservation."
- Barton Kendrick: Johnny, they found you.
- Johnny Jones: They have?
- Barton Kendrick: A man from the immigration department is talking to Frieda now.
- Johnny Jones: Well, I tried to think it wouldn't happen; but, I knew it would.
- Barton Kendrick: I can't let you go, Johnny! They can't send you back.
- Johnny Jones: They have to. My temporary passport was up three months ago.
- Barton Kendrick: If only I could do something.
- Johnny Jones: Oh, darling, you've done so much already. You made me live again. You'll almost made me forget about being afraid.
- Barney Grogan: I guess you like it here, don't you?
- Johnny Jones: You don't ask somebody in heaven if they like the place.
- Barney Grogan: Will you take a little tip? Don't go on the duff again. Hide out, I mean. It won't do you any good.
- Johnny Jones: I can't get married in a week.
- Barney Grogan: Well, Miss, if you can't, then the boys in this country must be slippin'!
- Johnny Jones: It's good of you to try to help me.
- Barney Grogan: Why, Miss, it was more like a pleasure.
- Joe Darsie: What's your racket, buddy?
- Bill Smith: I'm a genius.
- Joe Darsie: Who?
- Bill Smith: A genius - unknown.
- Joe Darsie: No kidding? Do you draw pictures: swell dames?
- Bill Smith: Nah. I play tunes - on the typewriter. Nobody listens.
- Waiter: Well, what do you see that's good?
- Bill Smith: [looking at the menu] I can't make up my mind.
- Waiter: Make a wish. You can't win.
- Bill Smith: We'll have a little fire. There's nothing like a nice, open fire, I always say.
- Johnny Jones: Do you?
- Bill Smith: Yeah, I always. And pine logs and curling flames, a faithful dog, nice white bearskin rug, a little woman to fetch your slippers. Nothing like it.
- Johnny Jones: Give me one good reason why we couldn't make a perfectly honest business agreement?
- Bill Smith: Well, I could give you two good reasons. I'm a man, you're a woman!
- Johnny Jones: What's the matter.
- Bill Smith: Oh, well, I was just thinking of the number of stories I've had rejected, I've never written one as funny as this. Two people that never saw each other before and they're just about to get married and promise to love, honor and obey.
- Johnny Jones: Ah, but, a, with us, you understand, that...
- Bill Smith: Oh, all right. I understand. Out the window. All of of it. No love, no honor, no obey.
- Bill Smith: No love. No love. Without love. No love. Without love! Might make a pretty good title for a story.
- Bill Smith: Now, it's perfectly all right for two strangers to get married; but, they've got to know each other before they get divorced!
- Grandma: Miss Jones, Martha. She might stay awhile if she likes your cooking.
- Martha: We'll try and fatten her up!
- Bill Smith: No, don't you worry about fattening her up. She's all right the way she is.
- Bill Smith: [as Martha walks away] You see, Martha eats her own cooking as you can see.
- Grandma: Begin a meal with a good blessing, Johnny. Finish it with a good brandy. And then, you've got something.
- Grandma: Simple things are all that counts, Johnny. Some seed for good ground. Rain and sun to bring 'em up. Wood for fire when the snow comes. A night like this. Some good neighbors, of course. Just plain people, with common decency, loyalty, honesty. Nothing else counts.
- Bill Smith: The man firefly he always knows pretty much where he stands. The - maybe I can explain it to you a little better like this. When the girl firefly wants to let the man firefly know that she sort of likes him a little bit, she flashes that little light at two second intervals. - - No, that's on the level. It's been timed. Don't you think that's pretty smart?
- Johnny Jones: Oh, yes. I do. I do. Good night.
- [first lines]
- Diana Kendrick: [yelling to Barton in the adjacent room as he is on his horse-like exercise machine] Hi-ho Silver!