Gertrude Griswold: Walter, what's that awful smell?
Walter Mitty: It's that cologne you gave me for Christmas.
Gertrude Griswold: It's lovely, isn't it?

- Ann Rutherford (as Gertrude Griswold) in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

Walter Mitty: [singing while daydreaming that he's Anatole of Paris] And why do I sew each new chapeau with a style they must look positively grim in?/Strictly between us, entrez-nous, I hate women.
[giggles]

- Danny Kaye (as Walter Mitty) in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

Walter Mitty: Here I am, lard face.

- Danny Kaye (as Walter Mitty) in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

Walter Mitty: Your small minds are musclebound with suspicion. That's because the only exercise you ever get is jumping to conclusions.

- Danny Kaye (as Walter Mitty) in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

Dr. Hollingshead: Perhaps you are mistaking me for someone else.
Walter Mitty: Oh, no. No one looks as much like you do as *you* do.

- Danny Kaye (as Walter Mitty) in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

Mrs. Mitty: The clock didn't strike. I definitely heard it not strike.

- Fay Bainter (as Mrs. Eunice Mitty) in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)