Bernie Dodd: Does your wife really want you to play this part?
Frank Elgin: Yeah, she's all for it.
Bernie Dodd: I was just wondering. The day I met her, she seemed a little difficult about terms and rather domineering, I thought.
Frank Elgin: She wasn't always like that.
Bernie Dodd: Oh I know, I know. They all start out as Juliets and wind up as Lady Macbeths.
Quotes from Bing Crosby movies and TV shows
Ted Haines Jr.: He wants to tear down the church and make a parking lot out of it. Can you imagine it? He's a very disliked man. I'm sort of following in his footsteps.
Father Chuck O'Malley: Junior, hmm?
Ted Haines Jr.: Yeah.
Father Fitzgibbons: I gave them both my blessing.
Father Chuck O'Malley: And they gave you the bird.
Father Fitzgibbons: Yeah.
Father Chuck O'Malley: Poor young Ted has been wounded in Africa.
Father Fitzgibbons: Ah, too bad.
Father Chuck O'Malley: They're shipping him home.
Father Fitzgibbons: Fine, upstanding young fellow. Maybe they'll decorate him.
Father Chuck O'Malley: Nnnno, I doubt it. Some friend of his ran over him in a jeep.
Father Chuck O'Malley: Mr. Haines is going to give us a mortgage to take care of the difference.
Ted Haines Sr.: That's right, father. He convinced me I have a heart. And, after all, it wouldn't be a church without a mortgage.
Father Fitzgibbons: That's right. That's right.
Mike Connor: I'm gonna dance.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: Don't get hurt.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: Oh Sam you're slipping. That used to terrify me, the withering glance of the goddess.
Mike Connor: Didn't you once know a girl named Tracy Samantha Lord?
C. K. Dexter-Haven: Yes, I did.
Mike Connor: No, you didn't! If you did, you wouldn't have let her go.
Louis Armstrong: You could play football in this room.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: I know, but can you rehearse?
Louis Armstrong: Is that chandelier tied tight up there?
C. K. Dexter-Haven: If it gets to swinging a little put a mute in your horn.
Tracy Lord: I'm such an unholy mess of a girl.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: Oh, come on, that's not even good conversation, Tracy.
Mrs. Seth Lord: This is Miss Elizabeth Imbrie and Mr Mike Macauley Connor. They're from Spy magazine.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: Spy? Say your tastes have changed a little haven't they, Sam?
C. K. Dexter-Haven: You'll find it under Harvard Classics. Just give Darwin a little nudge.
George Kittredge: I have a feeling you had more to do with this than anybody. You and your whole rotten class.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: Oh class my.
Mike Connor: Grandmother.
Caroline Lord: Dexter? This is Caroline.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: Hello, beautiful.
Caroline Lord: Any time now.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: They met in a hole in the ground.
Tracy Lord: One thing's for sure. You're well rid of me.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: Oh, no, no-one can say that but me.
Caroline Lord: Dexter, are you ever going to get married again?
C. K. Dexter-Haven: Sure I am, I'm just waiting for you to grow up.
Caroline Lord: Oh Dexter, for you I'll hurry.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: You're gonna have to.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: Hey, skipper, when do we eat?
Tracy Lord: Now.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: Boy, you've been at it long enough.
Tracy Lord: It's bride's prerogative.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: It's just I don't like you out of my sight for so long.
Tracy Lord: That's nice.
George Kittredge: That sounds like Tracy's voice.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: No, no. It's just the night watchman.
George Kittredge: It's a woman's voice.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: Well he's a lyric tenor you see.
Tracy Lord: I would like to talk to you privately.
C. K. Dexter-Haven: Well now, I consider that right neighborly.