- Judge Hardy: Well, I think a newspaper article should be about the length of a lady's skirt; long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.
- Jeff Willis: I beg your pardon.
- Marian Hardy: I beg yours.
- Jeff Willis: Oh, no, please, let me beg yours.
- Marian Hardy: This outfit has something to say.
- Andy Hardy: Mm-hmm. Yes, it has something to say, but don't you think it's a little outspoken?
- Aunt Milly: Somebody once said of a lady's evening gown that it should expose the lady, but not the person.
- Andy Hardy: Well, remember, the things that were okay in New York will just get you talked about here in Carvel.
- Marian Hardy: How would you like to start on a highly original career? It's called minding your own business.
- Judge Hardy: I'll never know what explosive chemistry exists in a brother and sister to cause perpetual civil war.
- Judge Hardy: The ugliness of her surroundings have filled her with bitterness and resentfulness and destroyed all her illusions. I wonder if either of you realize the large percentage of criminal and delinquent girls that come from broken families. Is, uh, your daughter in any way the cause of this marriage breaking up?
- Roderick O. Nesbit: Well, no, of course not.
- Olivia Nesbit: No, no, of course not.
- Judge Hardy: Then why do you punish her? You cheat your child of her God-given right to a happy home, and the love and guidance of a father and mother.
- Marian Hardy: Dad, didn't you ever do anything your parents disapproved?
- Judge Hardy: Ha, ha, ha. I certainly did.
- Marian Hardy: You turned out pretty swell, we think.
- Judge Hardy: And I got into a lot of trouble in the process.