Quotes about Quips

Jamie: Well, if you're in love with him, you're too big a fool for a man like me.
Lady Margaret Denby: You black-hearted bully! What do you know about men or women or anyrhing human? All you can do is shoot and kill and prey on women with your beastly sense of slobbering at the site of anything fine.
Jamie: I repeat my lass -- you will have to choose between us -- and very soon too!

- Tyrone Power (as Jamie Waring) in The Black Swan (1942)

Rhett Butler: [to Scarlett] I've always thought a good lashing with a buggy whip would benefit you immensely.

- Clark Gable (as Rhett Butler) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

High Sheriff of Nottingham: I hope our little golden hook will catch the fish.
Prince John: You hope?
High Sheriff of Nottingham: Oh it will... if he's here.
Prince John: If he's not we'll stick your head upon the target and shoot at that.

- Claude Rains (as Prince John) in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Robin Hood: Give way, little man.
Little John: Only to a better man than meself.
Robin Hood: He stands before you.

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

Ellie Andrews: What is it that we're supposed to be doing again?
Peter Warne: Hitchhiking.
Ellie Andrews: Well you've shown me an excellent example of the hiking part. When does the hitching come in?

- Claudette Colbert (as Ellie) in It Happened One Night (1934)

Kitty Collins: [to sailor trying to hit on her] Tell me, little boy, did you get a whistle or baseball bat with that suit?

- Lucille Ball (as Kitty Collins) in Follow the Fleet (1936)

[talking about the horse]
Dale Treemont: Who was his dam?
Jerry Travers: What?
Dale Treemont: I said, who was his dam?
Jerry Travers: I don't know miss, he didn't give a...

- Fred Astaire (as Jerry Travers) in Top Hat (1935)

Horace Hardwick: You mean to sit there and tell me that that girl slapped your face in front of all those people for nothing?
Jerry Travers: Well, what would you have done? Sold tickets?

- Fred Astaire (as Jerry Travers) in Top Hat (1935)

Mabel Anderson: [after having just been hit in the face with a snowball] You know, snow tastes just as bad as water.

- Helen Broderick (as Mabel Anderson) in Swing Time (1936)

John Kent: You don't appreciate her. I know she seems a little hard and sophisticated, but underneath she's a pearl.
Huckleberry Haines: And a pearl so I'm told, is the result of a chronic irritation on an oyster.

- Fred Astaire (as Huckleberry Haines) in Roberta (1935)