Quotes from The Lady Eve (1941)

19 quotes
Barbara Stanwyck
Charles Pike: I'm married.
Jean Harrington: But so am I, darling. So am I.

Barbara Stanwyck
Charles Pike: Now you, on the other hand, with a little coaching you could be terrific
[at playing cards]
Charles Pike: .
Jean Harrington: Do you really think so?
Charles Pike: Yes, you have a definite nose.
Jean Harrington: I'm glad you like it. Do you like any of the rest of me?

Barbara Stanwyck
Charles Pike: Snakes are my life, in a way.
Jean Harrington: What a life!

Henry Fonda
Charles Pike: What I am trying to say is: I'm not a poet, I'm an ophiologist.
- Henry Fonda (as Charles) in The Lady Eve (1941)

Henry Fonda
Charles Pike: You ought to put handles on that skull. Maybe you could grow geraniums in it.
- Henry Fonda (as Charles) in The Lady Eve (1941)

Barbara Stanwyck
Charles Pike: You're certainly a funny girl for anybody to meet who's just been up the Amazon for a year.
Jean Harrington: Good thing you weren't up there two years.

Barbara Stanwyck
Steward: Breakfast, sir?
Charles: What'd you say?
Steward: I said, "Breakfast, sir?"
Charles: Two scotch and sodas with plain water.
Jean Harrington: Don't you take cream and sugar?
Charles: No, I always take it black.
[pause]
Charles: Say, what am I talking about?
Jean Harrington: That's what I was wondering.
Steward: How about a nice bicarbonate of soda with an egg in it? It does wonders!

William Demarest
Stewart: Good morning, sir. Fruit, cereal, bacon and egg, egg and sausage, sausage and hot cake, hot cake and ham, ham and egg, egg and bacon, bacon and...
Muggsy: Give me a spoonful of milk, a raw pigeon's egg, and four houseflies. If you can't catch any, I'll settle for a cockroach.
- William Demarest (as Muggsy) in The Lady Eve (1941)

Eric Blore
Jean Harrington: You know Charles?
Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith: Oh, is he the tall backwards boy always toying with toads and things? Yes, I think I have seen him skulking about.
Jean Harrington: He's not backwards. He's a scientist.
Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith: Oh is that what it is? I knew he was, mm... peculiar.
- Eric Blore (as Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith) in The Lady Eve (1941)

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