Pete Monahan: Did you kids have a good time at the beach today?
Patsy Monahan: Oh, sure. I enjoy an occasional dip in the common pleasures of the proletariat.
Jimmy Monahan: If you knew what those words meant and could spell 'em, you'd be almost literate.

- Donald O'Connor in The Merry Monahans (1944)

Pete Monahan: Give me five bourbons straight, will ya?
Bartender: Five?
Pete Monahan: Yeah, for me and the four horsemen - Fire, Disease, Death, and Famine.
Bartender: Heh, heh, that's a misquotation.
Pete Monahan: Yeah, yeah... just get the stuff.

- Jack Oakie in The Merry Monahans (1944)

Pete Monahan: It's just that kids need a mother...
Patsy Monahan: And they always will until someone makes a big improvement in incubators.

- Peggy Ryan in The Merry Monahans (1944)

Patsy Monahan: It's a nice day.
Jimmy Monahan: You said that.
Patsy Monahan: Oh, it's got everything: a great big sun, sky -
Jimmy Monahan: Yes, yes...
Patsy Monahan: Well, I'm just trying to make conversation. I'm in there pitching!
Jimmy Monahan: High and outside.

- Donald O'Connor in The Merry Monahans (1944)