My Little Chickadee
1940
Flower Belle Lee: All right boys, what are ya studying now? Boys: Arithmetic. Flower Belle Lee: Well, I was always good at figures.
Judge: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? Flower Belle: No, your honor, I'm doin' my best to hide it!
Cuthbert J. Twillie: May I present my card? Flower Belle Lee: 'Novelties and Notions.' What kind of notions you got? Cuthbert J. Twillie: You'd be surprised. Some are old, some are new. Whom have I the honor of addressing? Flower Belle Lee: Mmm, call me Flower Belle. Cuthbert J. Twillie: Flower Belle, what a euphonious appellation. Easy on the ears and a banquet for the eyes. Flower Belle Lee: You're kinda cute yourself. Cuthbert J. Twillie: Thank you. I never argue with a lady. Flower Belle Lee: Smart boy.
Mrs Gideon: Ohhh! I hope that wasn't whiskey you were drinking. Cuthbert J. Twillie: Ah, no, dear, just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Tell me, prairie flower, can you give me the inside info on yon damsel with the hothouse cognomen? Mrs Gideon: Do you mean Miss Flower Belle Lee? Cuthbert J. Twillie: I don't mean some woman out in China. Mrs Gideon: Well! I'm afraid I can't say anything good about her. Cuthbert J. Twillie: I can see what's good. Tell me the rest.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Come, my fox, my flower! I have some very definite pear-shaped ideas that I'd like to discuss with thee.
Milton: Big chief gottum new squaw? Cuthbert J. Twillie: New is right. She hasn't been unwrapped yet.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. Compelled to live on food and water... Gambler: Will you play cards! Cuthbert J. Twillie: - for several days.
Flower Belle Lee: Mmm, funny, every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Cousin Zeb: Uh, is this a game of chance? Cuthbert J. Twillie: Not the way I play it, no.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Sleep! The most beautiful experience in life. Except drink.
Barfly: Squawk Mulligan tells me you buried your wife several years ago. Cuthbert J. Twillie: Ah, yes. I had to. She died.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: If a thing is worth having, it's worth cheating for.
Flower Belle Lee: Any time you got nothin' to do and lots of time to do it, come up.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Will you take me? Flower Belle Lee: I'll take you - and how.
(giving children an arithmetic lesson) Flower Belle Lee: Two and two are four and five will give you ten if you play your cards right.
Wayne Carter: It's spring, the time for love. Flower Belle Lee: What's wrong with the rest of the year?
Jeff Badger: And as for that tenderfoot sheriff, why, he couldn't keep his nose out of a bottle long enough to hold up a dog's tail, much less a stagecoach.
(last lines - each saying a line associated with the other) Cuthbert J. Twillie: If you get up around the Grampian Hills - why don't you come up and see me sometime? Flower Belle Lee: Ah, yeah, yeah, I'll do that, my little chickadee.
Flower Belle Lee: I generally avoid temptation... unless I can't resist it.