Quotes from My Little Chickadee (1940)

37 quotes
W.C. Fields
Mrs. Gideon: Ohhh! I hope that wasn't whiskey you were drinking.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Ah, no, dear, just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.

W.C. Fields
Mrs. Gideon: Was that chap dragging you across the prairie a full-blooded Indian?
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Ah, quite the antithesis. He's very anemic.

Mae West
Schoolboy: We was doin' arithmetic on the blackboard when Miss Foster took sick.
Flower Belle Lee: Oh, arithmetic... I was always pretty good at figures myself.

Mae West
[giving schoolboys an arithmetic lesson]
Flower Belle Lee: Two and two is four and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

Mae West
[last lines - each saying a line associated with the other]
Cuthbert J. Twillie: If you get up around the Grampian Hills - You must come up and see me sometime.
Flower Belle Lee: Ah, yeah, yeah, I'll do that, my little chickadee.

W.C. Fields
[the town mob is about to lynch Twillie]
Cuthbert J. Twillie: I'd like to see Paris before I die... Philadelphia will do.

W.C. Fields
[to the hotel porter]
Cuthbert J. Twillie: By the way, my ski shoes and hockey mask will be up on the next train along with the polo pony. I understand the countryside abounds here with wild game: flamingoes... wine wombats... Indian civets.

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