Nancy Drew: Dad! Ted's in jail again! Come on!

- Bonita Granville (as Nancy Drew) in Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)

Captain Tweedy: Smitty, go down to the Turnbull house and put yourself on guard. Find anybody around there, throw 'em out.
Smitty, a Policeman: Single-handed?
Captain Tweedy: Oh, use both hands, I don't care.

- Frank Orth (as Captain Tweedy) in Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)

Ted Nickerson: [trying to impress the maid with a joke] A duck is a chicken with snowshoes.
Nancy Drew: And a halfwit is a person who spends half their time trying to be witty.

- Bonita Granville (as Nancy Drew) in Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)