Quotes about Flirting

Karen Holmes: [to Sgt. Warden standing outside her porch in the pouring rain] Well, you'd better come inside... you'll get wet.

- Deborah Kerr (as Karen Holmes) in From Here to Eternity (1953)

[to Preysing, after he tries to get 'familiar' with her by asking her to call him by his first name]
Flaemmchen: You know I always say that nothing should be left hanging over. And names are like that. Suppose I met you next year and said, 'How do you do Mr. Preysing?' And you said, 'That's the young lady who was my secretary in Manchester.' That's all quite propper. But supposing I saw you and yelled 'Hi baby. Remember Manchester.'
[he laughs]
Flaemmchen: Yeah, and you were with your wife. How would you like that?

- Joan Crawford (as Flaemmchen) in Grand Hotel (1932)

Maria: There were times when we would look at each other - oh Mother, I could hardly breathe.

- Julie Andrews (as Maria) in The Sound of Music (1965)

Bilge Smith: Wanna dance?
Connie Martin: Oh, I was under the impression that you didn't dance.
Bilge Smith: Who me? Why, I'm the heavy weight champ of the fleet.

- Randolph Scott (as Bilge Smith) in Follow the Fleet (1936)

Bilge Smith: This is a lucky night for me Baby. You're just my type of girl.
Connie Martin: Oh really? I would have thought you were the kind of man who never gives girls a tumble.
Bilge Smith: Say, you've got some very funny ideas about me. Oh, I admit I've been around, but I've never met one like you, Baby.

- Randolph Scott in Follow the Fleet (1936)

Lady Marian Fitzswalter: Robin!
Robin Hood: Yes?
Lady Marian Fitzswalter: Please.
Robin Hood: Then you do love me, don't you? Don't you?
Lady Marian Fitzswalter: You know I do.
Robin Hood: Well, that's different. (Robin re-enters the window and they share an embrace and kiss.)
Lady Marian Fitzswalter: You know you're very impudent.
Robin Hood: Me?
Lady Marian Fitzswalter: You are. And when my real guardian King Richard finds out about your being in love with me...
Robin Hood: I know, he'll make me court jester.
Lady Marian Fitzswalter: He won't. He'll stick your funny head on London's Gate.
Robin Hood: A very fine decoration it will be, my bold Norman beauty.
Lady Marian Fitzswalter: I'm not bold.
Robin Hood: But you're a Norman... And you are a beauty.

- Errol Flynn (as Robin Hood) in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Mrs. Durant: Oh, isn't he a marvelous dentist?
Harvey Greenfield: Great.
Mrs. Durant: But with his talents he would have made an even better obstetrician.

- Irene Hervey (as Mrs. Durant) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Beinstock: [as Daphne falls up the train steps] . Whoops-a-daisy! [smacks his/her bottom]
Daphne: Fresh!

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

Joe/Josephine: [grabbing Daphne by the collar] Daphne?
Daphne: Well, I never did like the name Geraldine.

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

Karen Holmes: If you're looking for the captain, he isn't here.
Sergeant Milton Warden: [eyes Karen coyly] And if I'm not looking for him?
Karen Holmes: He still isn't here.

- Deborah Kerr (as Karen Holmes) in From Here to Eternity (1953)