- Amy Lind: You're not a very easy person to get to know, Mr. Grimes.
- Biff Grimes: Well, that's the kind of a hairpin I am.
- Biff Grimes: I uh, I guess a little kiss is harmless if it's all in fun.
- Amy Lind: Even if it isn't in fun.
- Biff Grimes: You mean - -?
- Amy Lind: Exactly.
- Biff Grimes: Well, wouldn't you like a nice, young man to marry you someday?
- Amy Lind: No, not particularly.
- Biff Grimes: So you don't believe in the institution of marriage!
- Amy Lind: An outmoded, silly convention started by the cavemen and encouraged by the florists and jewelers. After all, what's marriage?
- Biff Grimes: Wouldn't you like to have a home and kids?
- Amy Lind: Certainly I would, but that doesn't mean you have to go through all the...
- Biff Grimes: You mean - -?
- Amy Lind: Exactly.
- [she winks]
- Amy Lind: I learned an awful lot while I was away...
- Biff Grimes: You know, Amy. There's an awful lot of good in people if you just look for it. Trouble is, we don't look for it.
- Amy Lind: We just go through life saying, I'm all right and the other fellows all wrong.
- Amy Lind: [Virginia is disappointed that Amy didn't change] I'm proud of my uniform. It's a sign to the men that women not only have the same right to work as the men, but that in the eyes...
- Virginia Brush: Ooh hush, Amy. You're not at a suffragette meeting now!
- Amy Lind: [continuing her tirade] The tyranny for man or for woman. The stupid convention that says a woman will wear such and such. The outmoded...
- Virginia Brush: Please, Amy, just tonight, try to be a woman not a pamphlet.
- Amy Lind: [she stands up, looking at the sky] Women throughout the ages... oh, it's a lovely night!
- Virginia Brush: Who cares if we ever get to vote.
- Virginia Brush: [they are at the Statue of Liberty and they watch a woman slap a man for trying to kiss her]
- Virginia Brush: And she was right too.
- Biff Grimes: Well, if a man can't get liberties here, where can he?
- Hugo F. Barnstead: [In terrible pain after getting an abscessed tooth pulled] Oh, uh, uh, uh! What's the idea? I wanted gas!
- Biff Grimes: I haven't got anything against you any more, Hugo, but I wouldn't be quite human if I didn't take a little revenge.
- Biff Grimes: I'm gonna have a smoke.
- Amy Lind: May I have one too, please?
- Biff Grimes: Oh, sure. Hey! Don't tell me you smoke!
- Amy Lind: Only when I'm bored.
- Biff Grimes: Well, your mother's a bloomer girl, you're a nicotine fiend, are there any more at home like you?
- Amy Lind: I have an aunt who's an actress.
- Biff Grimes: Well, that completes the picture. I've been around, they can say an awful lot of things about Biff Grimes, but not that he ever gave a cigarette to a girl.
- Amy Lind: There's something about the country air.
- Biff Grimes: Hm?
- Amy Lind: I said, there's something about the country air.
- Biff Grimes: I like city air.
- Amy Lind: Well... there really isn't any difference between city air and country air. They're both hydrogen, and oxygen, and -...
- Biff Grimes: Air! You can't even see it, so why talk about it?
- Virginia Brush: I don't want him to think I am staring at him. You look at him and tell me what you think of him.
- Amy Lind: Well, the only one I can see clearly from here is the horse,
- [hesitates]
- Amy Lind: and I'm disappointed in him.
- Amy Lind: [as Hugo and Biff speed by]
- Amy Lind: Here they come.
- Virginia Brush: [excitedly] They're just trying to make an impression.
- Amy Lind: [bewildered] Do you think we'll ever see them again?
- Virginia Brush: [excited whisper] The street runs in a circle; they should be back any minute.
- Amy Lind: Oh for goodness sake, Virginia, cut out the nonsense. This is a pre-arranged date and we all know it. I've got to get back on duty by 11, so come on, let's shake our tootsies.
- Virginia Brush: Amy!
- Amy Lind: Oh 'Amy!' my Grandmother's hot water bottle!
- Biff Grimes: [muttering to Hugo] She's fast.
- Hugo F. Barnstead: [under breath] Yeah.
- Man: [to everyone in the barber shop] Hey fellas! Here comes the strawberry blonde!
- Amy Lind: [Amy winks at a man in the park]
- Virginia Brush: Amy!
- Amy Lind: Yes, dear.
- Virginia Brush: If there's something in your eye, Amy, I'll help you get it out.
- Amy Lind: Oh, bosh. There's nothing in my eye, I just plain and simple winked at him that's all.
- Virginia Brush: No, Amy. Either he's an old friend of the family's or there's something in your eye.
- Amy Lind: I never saw him before in my life until a few minutes ago when I passed Fisher's drug store.
- Virginia Brush: [excited] Oh, Amy. He followed you here?
- Amy Lind: No. I followed him.
- Virginia Brush: Oh, Amy.
- Virginia Brush: [Biff and Hugo arrive in the park]
- Virginia Brush: Now listen. We won't say a word to them. Just let them pass. Of course if they say something, we'll say something.
- Amy Lind: And if they don't say anything, we won't say anything.
- Virginia Brush: No. Just drop your eyes.
- Amy Lind: Drop my eyes?
- Virginia Brush: Yes. That'll show them we're good girls and they can't trifle with us.
- Amy Lind: Well, for goodness sakes, what did we come here for if not to be trifled with.
- Amy Lind: [Amy accuses her of asking Hugo out without being properly introduced]
- Virginia Brush: Why I never did any such thing! I simply happened to mention that I was in habit of taking walks in the park with my girlfriend. And besides in moral I didn't wink.
- Amy Lind: Don't be a hypocrite, Virginia. Spiritually, you winked.
- Virginia Brush: Honey, why can't you be nice to me once in a while?
- Hugo F. Barnstead: Oh, I've been thinkin' about it. Then I remember we're married, so why bother?
- Nicholas Pappalas: [Reminiscing] Oh, she was a beautiful girl, Virginia!
- Biff Grimes: Now what made you bring up Virginia?
- Nicholas Pappalas: Virginia? You were stuck on her, ain't you?
- Biff Grimes: [Looking around for Amy] Me? No...
- Nicholas Pappalas: Well, I was.
- Biff Grimes: Oh, I liked her in a nice way.
- Nicholas Pappalas: Yeah, I liked her too but I forget which way.
- Amy Lind: [Amazed at the chandelier] I just can't gt over that electric light. Isn't it dangerous?
- Hugo F. Barnstead: [Amusing himself] Oh, not if you pay the bills.
- Nicholas Pappalas: [Listening to song from German ooomph-band leader] Boy, how those moiders the English language!
- Nicholas Pappalas: [while playing horseshoes] Beef, what is it the score?
- Biff Grimes: I don't know. Haven't you been keeping track?
- Nicholas Pappalas: Since when do I suppose to knowhow to count?
- Biff Grimes: You can count in Greek, can't you?
- Nicholas Pappalas: But this ain't no Greek game.
- Biff Grimes: Are we playing for money?
- Nicholas Pappalas: Sure.
- Biff Grimes: in that case, I'm way ahead.
- Nicholas Pappalas: I think tomorrow mornin' I start to go to night school.
- Barber Shop Hanger-on: [Seeing Nick put a leech on Biff's eye] Wonderful invention, the leech!
- Nicholas Pappalas: That's not an invention - it's an animal.
- Biff Grimes: Gosh, you look wonderful!
- Virginia Brush: Oh, Biff, but you...? Is that another black eye or the same one?
- Virginia Brush: [waiting to meet their dates] Now listen. We won't say a word to them. Just let them pass. Oh, of course, if they say something, we'll say something.
- Amy Lind: And if they don't say anything, we won't say anything.
- Virginia Brush: No, just drop your eyes.
- Amy Lind: Drop my eyes?
- Virginia Brush: Yes. That'll show them we're good girls and they can't trifle with us.
- Amy Lind: Well for goodness sakes what did we come here for if not to be trifled with?
- Amy Lind: Are you still playing that silly game? I'm almost ready.
- Biff Grimes: Why, don't break a bustle, I'll be in in a minute.
- Bandleader: [singing] Casey would waltz with a strawberry blonde, And the band played on...
- Harold's Girl Friend: [singing] We will dance the hoochie koochie, I will be your tootsie wootsie...
- Mrs. Mulcahey: If there's one thing certain, your bark is worst than your bite.
- Old Man Grimes: And if there's another thing certain, the ladies all prefer me bark to their husband's bite.
- Big Joe: Hold your horses. What are you going to use for money?
- Old Man Grimes: Well, I was of the impression my credit was good around here.
- Big Joe: Do me a favor and tie the bull outside.
- Mrs. Mulcahey: Where do you go around talking love to every woman in the neighborhood?
- Old Man Grimes: Well, what would you have me talk about? The weather?
- Biff Grimes: Have you been canned again?
- Old Man Grimes: Well, Biff, we may as well face it. You see, I was never in the world cut out to be a street cleaner and there's no use reaching for the stars.
- Biff Grimes: What happened this time?
- Old Man Grimes: Oh, Biff, it's me teeth - and when a man's in misery...
- Biff Grimes: Why can't you get a new alibi?
- Old Man Grimes: What? When I've been using that one for 30 years? Huh.
- Biff Grimes: Who are the girls?
- Hugo Barnstead: Well, one of thems the strawberry blonde.
- Biff Grimes: Virginia Brush?
- Hugo Barnstead: In the flesh.
- Virginia Brush: [Amy winks at a stranger] Will you stop that. What will people think of us?
- Amy Lind: Virginia, be sensible. That's the way men behave towards women. There's no reason why women shouldn't behave that way right back. The single standard of morals...
- Virginia Brush: I refuse to listen to advanced ideas.
- Hugo Barnstead: Biff, I've got it on awful good authority, nurses are a lot of fun. I'll bet she'd even let you put your arm around her waist.
- Biff Grimes: Oh, what fun is that? Do you know the amount of starch in a nurses uniform?
- Biff Grimes: How is that you haven't got a date tonight?
- Amy Lind: Free thinkers have a lot of time on their hands.
- Biff Grimes: Maybe I'm a little bit too crazy about her. But, somehow, she's my ideal. Every fella has an ideal. Somebody he cares for and when he cares for that somebody, why, nothing else matters.
- Virginia Brush: Why don't you pick your mind up out of the gutter?
- Hugo Barnstead: Why should I? You helped put it there.
- Guitar Player: [singing] In the evening, by the moonlight
- Barber Shop Patron: You can hear those darkies singing...