- Mrs. Webster - Head Prison Matron: As Head Matron of his Institution, in all my experience, I have never come...
- Lorry Evans: Save your wind, save your wind, you might want to go sailing sometime.
- [explaining why she played the phonograph loudly during Lorry and Stephen's argument in the next room]
- Minnie: I was just trying to drown out your domestic happiness.
- [to prison official during release from prison]
- Lorry Evans: This is a very nice institution you have here Miss Muncie, but you do cater to a rather low class.
- Dan: Oh, I got another treat for ya.
- Lorry Evans: What is it?
- [Dan slowly closes the door, puts a bowl on the table, pours water in it, takes a hand towel and displays both sides like a magician before tucking it in as a bib, picks up his shaving supplies and starts lathering his face]
- Lorry Evans: Say... what is this treat?
- Dan: I'm gonna let you watch me shave.
- Lorry Evans: You're too good to me.
- Dan: Any woman who can get me to shave more than twice a week must have something.
- Lorry Evans: Minnie!
- [spotting Minnie's wedding ring]
- Minnie: I had to give in sometime, you see the hips was gettin' away from me. You know, I can't stand obesity.
- Lorry Evans: You can't stand what?
- Minnie: Let it go.
- Alice - Dan's Shipboard Cook: Anything mo', boss?
- Dan: How 'bout some more catfish?
- Lorry Evans: No thanks. I've had so much now I'm about ready to meow.
- Dan: All right, Alice, you can take it away.
- Alice - Dan's Shipboard Cook: She ain't got half the appetite of some of yer other gals had.
- Dan: The conversation's more interesting when you keep your mouth shut.
- Lorry Evans: I'm kinda sorry I pushed you overboard this afternoon.
- Dan: Nah, it's all right. I like a woman with some spunk. Only don't make a habit of it.
- Lorry Evans: How good are you at walkin' on water?
- Minnie: Oh, just fair, but I could do a lot of thinkin' on gin if I knew where to get some.
- [Minnie enters room and spots liquor bottle not knowing that it's empty]
- Minnie: Ah, there you are sweetheart.
- [to liquor bottle]
- Lorry Evans: Say, if you want any more you'll have to wring it out of him to get it.
- [motions to her drunk companion]
- Minnie: He looks wrung out now... why didn't he eat the bottle?
- Minnie: You don't look so bad yourself for a corpse.
- Lorry Evans: A corpse!
- Minnie: You were supposed to be drowned and you don't even look damp.
- Lorry Evans: Well, I got myself resurrected.
- Minnie: Well, you done a good job while you was at it.
- [looking around at Lorry's opulent apartment]
- Minnie: Does he own the mint?
- Lorry Evans: No, but he's got an option on it.
- Lorry Evans: How come I rate all this attention?
- Minnie: You're gonna have a good time tonight if I have to bust out in a rash.
- Mrs. Webster - Head Prison Matron: I don't expect to see you here again. Minnie Brown, I'll give you the same advice. You're much too impulsive.
- Minnie: I'm tellin' you, Mrs. Webster, I ain't got an impulse left.
- Father Doran: Are you sure there won't be any regrets later?
- Lorry Evans: Not with me. I can take my regrets and leave 'em alone.
- Minnie: I just made all arrangements to get drove down to the boat. Oh, are you a good chauffeur?
- Lorry Evans: What's the matter with the boyfriend? Paralyzed?
- Minnie: Oh, he wants me to help him check up on his groceries.
- Minnie: He's a big cotton man.
- Lorry Evans: Yeah? He looks perfectly normal to me.
- Salesman Ogelthorpe: You're some kidder.
- Lorry Evans: Have you got a lot of cotton ranches or does it grow on animals?
- Stephen Paige: You say you're with...
- Lorry Evans: The American Newspaper Syndicate. We're running a series of articles on successful businessmen, you know, captains of industry, lawyers, bankers...
- Stephen Paige: Aren't you rather young for this sort of thing?
- Lorry Evans: Well, I'm not very long out of - convent.
- Stephen Paige: I rather expected a fat, frumpy sort of woman. They usually are.
- Stephen Paige: What time did I get home last night?
- Butler: I don't know, suh. I was asleep.
- Stephen Paige: Did I - did I bring anyone with me?
- Butler: No one that I saw, suh.
- Stephen Paige: Well, get me a bromo-seltzer. A big one.
- Lorry Evans: Hello. Never expected to see me again, did you?
- Dan: Well, I sort of thought I might.
- Lorry Evans: Thought my conscience would bring me back?
- Dan: I didn't count very much on your conscience.
- Lorry Evans: Well, I'm sort of a governess.
- Dan: Governess, huh? Who do you govern?
- Lorry Evans: Oh, the offspring of a old Southern family.
- Dan: What do you do? Teach them good manners?
- Lorry Evans: Not so far.
- Lorry Evans: I bet you've never even had your arms around a girl.
- Dan: Oh, yes I have. Part-way. She was a fat girl.
- Lorry Evans: Oh. Try puttin' your arms around me. See how I feel.
- Lorry Evans: Scared of me, aren't you?
- Dan: Certainly.
- Lorry Evans: Why?
- Dan: Because you're the kind of a woman that goes around pushing people off of boats.
- Lorry Evans: Scared of all women?
- Dan: Only those I've met.
- Dan: That one up there is Venus. If your in a fast plane, traveling at top speed, it'll take you 50 years to get there.
- Lorry Evans: I'd be too old to enjoy myself. What other trips have ya got?
- Dan: Well, if you just want to go on a short trip, you could run up to the moon.
- Lorry Evans: How long would that take?
- Dan: Probably make it in about 166 days.
- Lorry Evans: You. know too much for your own good.
- Dan: Oh, I ain't even started yet. You see that one over there?
- Lorry Evans: Oh, let's just look at 'em.
- Dan: [long kiss] What was that? A tidal wave?
- Lorry Evans: No, it was just me.
- Dan: Try it again.
- [long kiss]
- Dan: So, that's what it's like.
- Stephen Paige: A man imagines the woman he marries is something set apart, something clean. That's why young love is different to anything else in the world.
- Lorry Evans: You're just bein' old fashioned.
- Stephen Paige: Maybe. But, so is every man.
- Stephen Paige: Now, you're a practical woman and I think you could help.
- Minnie: Just a minute, I ain't as practical as I used to be.
- Minnie: They'll be a few little expenses.
- Stephen Paige: Expenses don't matter.
- Minnie: You know, little odds and ends.
- Stephen Paige: Is that enough?
- Minnie: That ought to hold out for a little while.
- Stephen Paige: If it doesn't hold out, you come back.
- Minnie: Mmm. You know, Mr. Paige, it's too bad you wasn't born twins.
- Floorwalker: Having difficulties?
- Minnie: Who wants to know?
- Floorwalker: I beg your pardon?
- Minnie: Why? Have you done somthin' you shouldn't?
- Floorwalker: I was just trying to be of service, that's all.
- Minnie: You see, it's a very embarrassin' subject. I need to talk it over with a lady.
- Mrs. Howard: [walking out of prison] Hello there, honey. Where'd you git dem clothes? Some woman dun give 'em to you?
- Black Man Meeting Released Prisoner: No. I dun won dez clothes shotin' craps.
- Mrs. Howard: You do any more playin' around and I'll do somethin' to you that's gonna put me back in there to stay.
- Father Doran: Do you think that's a nice attitude for you to start out with?
- Lorry Evans: Well, don't worry. If the finish is okay, I can always write a check to cover the start.
- Lorry Evans: So, you've had other girls on board?
- Dan: Sure! They were different kind of gals.
- Lorry Evans: How do you know I ain't the same as they are?
- Dan: Oh, you just put on a hard front. You know what you're doin'.
- Lorry Evans: All say I do. I'm going places!
- Lorry Evans: You're a woman-hater.
- Stephen Paige: Wait! Wait a minute. I didn't say anything of the kind.
- Lorry Evans: Oh, that's all right. I'm a man-hater. That is, in a way I am, you know, my career comes first.
- Lorry Evans: Mr. Paige, tell me, are you annoyed with women? That is, the fortune hunter kind? I mean, you know.
- Stephen Paige: No, not exactly. Say, what sort of an interview is this? Are you interviewing me about my private life or my business?
- Lorry Evans: Well, we like to know as much as we can.
- Lorry Evans: What are your views on drinking?
- Stephen Paige: You mean prohibition?
- Lorry Evans: Yeah. Yeah.
- Stephen Paige: Oh, well, the 18th Amendment is a law. And as a law, should be respected until its rescinded by the voice of the people.
- Lorry Evans: I see. And you mean you ain't in favor to it?
- Stephen Paige: I beg your pardon?
- Lorry Evans: You mean you are not in favor of drinking.
- Stephen Paige: Well, I just said I wasn't.
- Lorry Evans: That's very interesting.
- Stephen Paige: Why?
- Lorry Evans: Well, I've interviewed several other important men and you're the first one to believe in prohibition.
- Stephen Paige: Well, now, just a moment. Before you write anything down. That isn't my personal opinion.
- Lorry Evans: Oh, then you do approve of drinking?
- Stephen Paige: Well, under certain circumstances I think spirits may be good if taken medicinally.
- Dan: Do you like to dance?
- Lorry Evans: Sure.
- Dan: Are you good at it?
- Lorry Evans: Oh, I guess I can get by.
- Dan: Yeah, I guess you can get by.
- Dan: Can you imagine old man river washin' anything like you right up against my barge? Was that a lucky break.
- Lorry Evans: Was it?
- Lorry Evans: Why, Miss Brown. What a pleasant surprise. How do you do?
- Minnie: Get down off that horse and try walkin'.
- Lorry Evans: Minnie, I got to talk to you.
- Minnie: Okay, if you don't get serious. You know, you gotta let them win once in awhile or they lose that old interest.
- Lorry Evans: I borrowed some money from him one day. You know, the day I jumped off that boat. You know what he did when I took it back?
- Minnie: Sure, he took a sock at ya.
- Lorry Evans: No. That's the trouble. He said money doesn't mean everything and if I needed it more than he did it was okay with him. Honey, the guy's got my goat.
- Dan: How about stayin' for dinner? We're gonna have catfish.
- Lorry Evans: I can hardly wait.
- Dan: Catfish for two.
- Alice - Dan's Shipboard Cook: Catfish for two.
- Lorry Evans: Is Mr. Paige here yet?
- Genevieve - Lorry's Maid: No, Miss Lorry.
- Lorry Evans: Hasn't he phoned all evening?
- Genevieve - Lorry's Maid: No, Miss Lorry, I think he was at the theater.
- Lorry Evans: Oh, hang, I wanted to see him.
- Stephen Paige: You don't want to buck the world all over again.
- Lorry Evans: Thanks, Stevie. But maybe that's just what I do want to do. Buck the world again.