Quotes about Flirting

Bernard 'Barney' Dexter: You just keep on saying 'no' if you like. The 'yes' will be all the more delightful when it comes. Your mouth is very pretty when it says 'no'. Have you heard that before?

- Warren William (as Bernard Dexter) in Day-Time Wife (1939)

Slim: Anybody got a match?

- Lauren Bacall (as Slim) in To Have and Have Not (1944)

Wade Hatton: Here, may I take that? It looks heavy for you.
Abbie Irving: No thank you. I can manage it.
Wade Hatton: Oh, I'm sure you can manage a bigger one than that -- in each hand, if you wanted to -- but why should you?

- Errol Flynn (as Wade Hatton) in Dodge City (1939)

Harvey Greenfield: You want me to act natural and flirt with you at the same time???

- Jack Weston (as Harvey Greenfield) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Osgood: Right now, she [his mother] thinks I'm out there on my yacht - deep sea fishing!
Daphne: Well, pull in your reel, Mr. Fielding, you're barking up the wrong fish!

- Jack Lemmon (as Jerry/Daphne) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Bilge: Hey, eh, what's the idea?
Connie Martin: It's a line of defense.
Bilge: Well, watch my maneuvers -- you can't beat the navy.
Connie Martin: All right, sailor, I surrender.
Bilge: unconditionally?
Connie Martin: Well, I'm will to discuss terms.

- Harriet Hilliard (as Connie Martin) in Follow the Fleet (1936)

Slim: You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything and you don't have to do anything... not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow.

- Lauren Bacall (as Slim) in To Have and Have Not (1944)

Wade Hatton: Maybe you're afraid I might kiss you.
Abbie Irving: You wouldn't dare.
Wade Hatton: Now, I wish I were as sure of that as you are.

- Errol Flynn (as Wade Hatton) in Dodge City (1939)

Rhett Butler: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaux. I want more than flirting from you.
Scarlett: What do you want?
Rhett Butler: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: "I love you!"
Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me, Captain Butler, as long as you live.

- Vivien Leigh (as Scarlett O'Hara) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Joe: [apologizing because the motor boat will only move backwards] I'm afraid it may take a little longer.
Sugar: It's not how long it takes, it's who's taking you.

- Marilyn Monroe (as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk) in Some Like It Hot (1959)