- Mona Leslie: One way or the other, I've spent most of my life on a merry-go-round,
- Bob Harrison: You can't get very far going around in circles.
- Mona Leslie: No, but at least you're sure to get back where you started. That's something.
- Mona Leslie: [Spoken introduction to the song, Reckless] What'll you ever be? What'll you ever do? How will you ever know if you don't take a chance?
- Chorus: You have got to gamble with fate.
- Mona Leslie: [singing] I wanna live, love, learn a lot. I'll light my candle and I'll burn a lot.
- Chorus: You'll have some bad shots, hard knocks!
- Mona Leslie: I'm on my own if I bruise.
- Chorus: And there'll be smiles here, shouts here!
- Mona Leslie: And I can take it on the chin if I lose, because I'm reckless!
- Chorus: She's simply reckless!
- Mona Leslie: Reckless!
- Chorus: She's simply reckless!
- Mona Leslie: I'm gonna go places and look life in the face!
- Mona Leslie: Ned, come back here! Oh, sweet Ned. Darling, Ned.
- Granny: Oh, listen to her. People have married on less than that.
- Ned Riley: Well, I always said what I needed was the love of a good woman.
- Granny: Well?
- Ned Riley: And what she needs is a good old fashioned fanning with a bedroom slipper.
- Bob Harrison: Listen, I'm a man of honor. I don't need any chaperone.
- Mona Leslie: Oh, you'll find him very liberal.
- Ned Riley: Hey, Mr. - eh...
- Bob Harrison: Harris. All my enemies call me Bob.
- Ned Riley: Then I'll call you Bob.
- Mona Leslie: If I thought I wasn't any good, I know what I'd do.
- Bob Harrison: You would? What?
- Mona Leslie: Get good! Get good and if I needed help, I'd take it! Or, grab it from anyone who offered it.
- Mona Leslie: Betcha don't know what I've been doing, Daddy?
- Ned Riley: No.
- Mona Leslie: I've been out on that great big yacht again.
- Ned Riley: Did you catch anything?
- Mona Leslie: We didn't fish!
- Ned Riley: Did you catch anything?
- Mona Leslie: Your cracks have fallen off terribly, Ned. You've got to see more of me.
- Bob Harrison: Fly with me.
- Mona Leslie: Anywhere.
- Bob Harrison: You won't go back on your word?
- Mona Leslie: No, I've got one of those uncontrollable impulse moods.
- Bob Harrison: Whoops! I've been waiting for that mood for weeks! Who knows what it'll bring.
- Bob Harrison: Jo, I'm sorry. I didn't mean - I don't know what...
- Josephine (Jo) Mercer: What? I'm sorry? Don't be silly. Sorry? When you're married to her? She's great. I mean that! Well, I'm afraid she isn't any better than I am; but, at least she's just as good. Lots of luck.
- Granny: Ned Riley, my granddaughter is locked up in jail. Why, you've got to get her out and double-quick!
- Ned Riley: I'm on my way. I hope the Society has a good meeting.
- Bob Harrison: Thanks, I'll send you the minutes.
- Ned Riley: I'll send you my Seconds.
- Mona Leslie: [Looking in a mirror] Behave yourself, you foolish girl.
- Bob Harrison: But not too welly.
- Mona Leslie: And above all, don't forget that old weakness of yours.
- Bob Harrison: Weakness?
- Mona Leslie: Wanting to make people happy. It's a mean one.
- Bob Harrison: How you have. How you could. I could stand a little happiness. What do you say, Mona?
- Mona Leslie: It's not really you? Long time no see.
- Ned Riley: Yeah. That's a nice dance.
- Mona Leslie: Everything under control?
- Ned Riley: Yes.
- Colonel Harrison: I don't think Josephine Mercer laughed very heartily at your joke.
- Bob Harrison: Have you seen her?
- Colonel Harrison: Yes.
- Bob Harrison: How is she?
- Colonel Harrison: Well, she's not wearing sack cloth and ashes. She's too well bred for that.
- Josephine (Jo) Mercer: I'm really trespassing you know. See that sign there?
- Mona Leslie: I've seen them all the way down the lane.
- Josephine (Jo) Mercer: You know what Colonel Harrison will say to me? He'll be very polite and say, "Young lady, the meek will inherit the earth, but that's not 'til Judgement Day. Right now, I own this property."
- Mona Leslie: He's much more likely to say that to me.
- Dale Every: Aren't you riding?
- Mona Leslie: All my horseback riding has been done on merry-go-rounds.
- Mona Leslie: You know, the closest I ever came to riding the hounds was in a show. I played the fox.
- Mona Leslie: Well, hush my mouth if it isn't Gold Dust.
- Gold Dust: Hi, Miss Leslie! How ya doin'?
- Mona Leslie: Just fine.
- Ned Riley: Gold Dust, if you don't win your race today, I'm going to send you back to the Chain Gang.
- Louise: Come here you great, big man. Sit next to me.
- Blossom: Me?
- Louise: Yes, you.
- Blossom: Okay, doll.
- Louise: Doll! With that one word, you've won me. Are you a gangster?
- Blossom: Oh, I give that up since I got outta Sing Sing.
- Louise: You've been in Sing SIng? Girls! This beautiful man has been in Sing Sing!
- Bob Harrison: Thinking of you with someone else is driving me crazy.
- Josephine (Jo) Mercer: Then, don't think.
- Ned Riley: Look here, you go on in and show these folks how you can hot-foot it around, huh?
- Mona Leslie: I can't dance no more. These old bones has done gots the misery.
- [Crowd laughs]
- Ned Riley: You hear that? Dem white folks was a-talkin'.
- Mona Leslie: The pleasures all mine, boys!
- Boy #1: Make it hot, Mona!
- Boy #2: Rock 'em, sister!
- Boy #3: Go to town!
- Mona Leslie: I've Got Nobody To Blame But Myself
- [begins dancing]
- [last lines]
- Mona Leslie: [singing] I waste no weeping, I'll just keep hoping for one who's hoping for me.
- Colonel Harrison: My dear, your sense of dramatics is overdeveloped - you've been in too many plays.