Quotes from Lover Come Back (1961)

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Ann B. Davis
Carol Templeton: Think he'll like it?
Millie, Carol's Secretary: Well if he doesn't, he's been taking the wrong kind of chemicals.
- Ann B. Davis (as Millie, Carol's Secretary) in Lover Come Back (1961)

Rock Hudson
Carol Templeton: You kissed me and I was thrilled!
Jerry Webster: A kiss? What does that prove? It's like finding out you can light a stove. It doesn't make you a cook.
- Rock Hudson (as Jerry Webster) in Lover Come Back (1961)

Doris Day
Carol Templeton: You listen to me, no alcoholic beverage, no drug known to science, no torture yet devised could induce me to stay married to *you*!
- Doris Day (as Carol Templeton) in Lover Come Back (1961)

Tony Randall
Dr. Melnick: What are you doing up there, Peter?
Peter 'Pete' Ramsey: I'm the king of the elevator.
- Tony Randall (as Peter 'Pete' Ramsey) in Lover Come Back (1961)

Jack Albertson
Jerry Webster: [Jerry Webster enters wearing a woman's full length mink coat]
Fred: He's the last guy in the world I woulda' figured.

Rock Hudson
Jerry Webster: No, I find him very intriguing... in a man-to-man sort of way.
- Rock Hudson (as Jerry Webster) in Lover Come Back (1961)

Doris Day
Jerry Webster: Okay, so I've sewn a few wild oats.
Carol Templeton: A few? You could qualify for a farm loan!
- Doris Day (as Carol Templeton) in Lover Come Back (1961)

Rock Hudson
Jerry Webster: You're going up there to have my baby. My son. And I'm...
Carol Templeton: It's *my* baby and I'll have what I like. And I've decided I'm having a girl.
Jerry Webster: Have whatever you like. I love you both. Now will you marry me?
- Rock Hudson (as Jerry Webster) in Lover Come Back (1961)

Tony Randall
Jerry Webster: Your trouble is that you're still living in the shadow of your Father. You're even afraid to get rid of his old car.
Peter 'Pete' Ramsey: You don't realize how completely he dominated me ever since I was a little boy. Just once I spoke back to him. He cut a switch from a tree and gave me such a whipping, in front of this girl. It was a shattering experience.
Jerry Webster: Pete, all kids get whippings.
Peter 'Pete' Ramsey: But I was twenty five, the girl was my fiancé.
- Tony Randall (as Peter 'Pete' Ramsey) in Lover Come Back (1961)

Rock Hudson
Peter 'Pete' Ramsey: [Blows Horn]
Jerry Webster: What is that?
Peter 'Pete' Ramsey: The mating call of the Moose.
[Blows Horn]
Peter 'Pete' Ramsey: This call is absolutely irresistible. Your bull Moose will run for twenty miles, he will crash through any barrier to get to the source of this call.
[Blows Horn]
Jerry Webster: And what happens if he gets there?
Peter 'Pete' Ramsey: I take his Picture.
Jerry Webster: Pete, he's not running twenty miles to get photographed. Now I suggest you stop blowing that horn.
- Rock Hudson (as Jerry Webster) in Lover Come Back (1961)

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