Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Myrna Loy: Nora Charles
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Quotes
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Nick Charles : If the party gets rough, duck.
Nora Charles : I'm practically under the table now, but not the way I like to be.
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Nick Charles : I got a great idea.
Nora Charles : What is it?
Nick Charles : Let's go home.
Nora Charles : What's at home?
Nick Charles : You, my pipe, my slippers.
Nora Charles : Nickie, you're slipping.
Nick Charles : Darling, give me my pipe, slippers & a beautiful woman... and you can keep the pipe and slippers.
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Taxi Driver : Follow that car?
Nora Charles : Movie fan.
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Nora Charles : [about Phyllis Talbin] Stunning jewelry. Those earrings...
Nick Charles : [looking off in the direction of Phyllis] Very attractive!
Nora Charles : Earrings are higher up.
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Nora Charles : Aw, get lost you offbeat rinky-dink, you're nowhere.
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Nick Charles : You shouldn't have talked that way to my friends. They're very sensitive.
Nora Charles : I didn't mean to hurt them. I love them. They're perfect gentlemen - right down to their fingerprints.
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Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : It's Fran! Fran Page, Hollis' old flame.
Nick Charles : Unless I got my photographs mixed, she had a fire left over for Mr. Drake too.
Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Yeah, the 88 man grabbed her off and then he give her the Fuller.
Nick Charles : The Fuller?
Nora Charles : The brush. The brush.
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Mug #1 : Gee, we sure get a gentrier plateau with these charity shindigs.
Mug #2 : Especially the dames. What class! What refinement! What cultured tomatoes! Hey, get a load of that one. Yoo-hoo!
Nick Charles : [Turns around to face the mugs] Boys, boys, in polite society, we don't say, Yoo-hoo. We say Yoo-whom.
Mug #1 : Nick, hi!
Mug #2 : Hi!
Nick Charles : You remember Mrs. Charles.
Mug #1 : Hi!
Mug #2 : Hi!
Nora Charles : You took the words right out of my mouth.
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Nora Charles : Nick, we're going home and I'm not tucking you into bed, I'm tying you in.
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Nick Charles Jr. : I knew Roy shouldn't have trusted that Arsenic Annie. She's a man dressed in woman's clothes.
Nick Charles : Annie's a man?
Nick Charles Jr. : Sure. It's a dead giveaway a dame would never pass a mirror like that without looking to see if her slip was showing.
Nora Charles : Dame?
Nick Charles Jr. : Well, that's what Daddy always says.
Nick Charles : I never say dame. I always say doll - eh, dish. Well, anyway, it was a very shrewd deduction.
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Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : I want you to meet a couple of friends of mine. Mellow Man Magee and the Missus. Hottest pump man in Memphis.
Nick Charles : Second hottest.
Mitchell Talbin : Do you play an instrument too?
Nora Charles : No, I'm a mud hen, eh, a bird, a canary.
Mitchell Talbin : A canary?
Nora Charles : Strictly from Tennessee!
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Nora Charles : Its nice to know people still go to bed. Mr. Charles and I used to go to bed.
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Nora Charles : Nicky, the police do make mistakes!
Nick Charles : Yes, there's a cheerful thought. Just what I've been thinking.
Nora Charles : Of course, if you were on the case...
Nora Charles , Nick Charles : there would be no mistake.
Nick Charles : You're positively sadistic the way you drag me to work.
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Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Penthouse, you know. These Talbin jams are the tops! But, it's like I told you, strictly for gates and gutbusters. Hey, I tell you what, you're a slush pump man.
Nick Charles : Come again?
Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Da-da-da-da! Strictly from Memphis. And you, you're a canary. Strictly from Memphis.
Nora Charles : Canary?
Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Well, I could say you pluck a hot harp.
Nora Charles : If Mr. Charles doesn't find that receipt, he'll be plucking a harp.
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Nora Charles : I should have worn a sleeping bag.
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Nora Charles : [Referring to Mrs. Talbin] Stunning jewelry. Those earrings.
Nick Charles : [Staring at Mrs. Talbin leaving] Very attractive.
Nora Charles : The earrings are higher up.
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Nora Charles : Are you through with crime?
Nick Charles : No, I'm going to bed.
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Clarence 'Clinker' Krause : Fran, this is Mr. and Mrs. Nick Charles.
Nick Charles : How do you do? Well, you were a, you were very jivie, a hep warbler.
Nora Charles : Mr. Charles is a bit of a shom.
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Nora Charles : What's all this finger business about?
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Nora Charles : What do you get out of it?
Nick Charles : A sudden urge to merge.