- Mr. Borden: Well, Michael, there seems to be a touch of spring in the air.
- Mike: Yes sir, that's something even the poor people can enjoy.
- Mr. Borden: [Seeing Mary eat an apple for her dinner] Are you on a diet?
- Mary Grey: Yes, but against my wishes.
- Mrs. Borden: [after being questioned about her extramarital affairs] At any rate, I have a right to lead my own life.
- [Scoffs]
- Mrs. Borden: I'm not a child.
- Katherine Borden: You're old enough to be my mother.
- Higgins: To be frank, sir, we servants enjoy the luxuries of the rich and have none of the responsibilities.
- Higgins: You were very quiet after you fell down the stairs, sir. You're last request was that we put Miss America in the guest room.
- Mr. Borden: Miss America? Did somebody else come home with us?
- Mary Grey: No, I'm Miss America.
- Katherine Borden: Why shouldn't younger people marry older people? Fat people marry thin people. Tall people marry short people.
- Mike: You're blaming me?
- Mary Grey: I'm blaming you for being a dope! You're in love and you haven't enough spunk to fight for the thing you want.
- Mike: I won't listen to such nonsense.
- Mary Grey: You try to make everyone else unhappy. You try to make people believe things you don't even believe yourself.
- Mike: So! You know all about me.
- Mary Grey: You're like a pane of glass to me, brother. You haven't the courage to be a capitalist yourself so you try to drag everybody else down to where you are.
- Mike: You're a capitalistic pawn.
- Mary Grey: I'm a what?
- Mike: You're a renegade to your class!
- Mary Grey: You can't talk to me that way and get away with it!
- Mary Grey: Oh, Higgins, you better get down to the kitchen. There's a revolution or something going on down there.
- Mr. Borden: You see, it's my birthday.
- Mary Grey: [Cynically] Birthdays are all right, but you never get over the first one.
- Minnesota's girlfriend: Why don't you give your boyfriend a liver pill?
- Mary Grey: Why don't you button up your lip?
- Mike: [after being uestioned by the family about Borden's activities] The nocturnal meanderings of the upper class do not interest me!
- Tim Borden: Might as well be civil!
- Mike: [Haughtily] Only when civil liberties are in danger.
- Seal Expert: [At the Central Park Zoo] Don't get them seals wrong, lady. They have more intelligence than most of the carnivorous, except the dog.
- Mary Grey: That so?
- Mr. Borden: Anyhow, they seem to be having a nice time.
- Mary Grey: I can't imagine it would be much fun, swimming around all day in a fur coat.
- Seal Expert: That's were you're wrong again, lady. These ain't fur seals at all.
- Mary Grey: They ain't?
- Mr. Borden: Say, you don't think that I followed you over here?
- Mary Grey: Why should you? What are you? A flatfoot?
- Mr. Borden: Eh, oh, you mean a detective. Oh, no, no.
- Mary Grey: Well, if you are, I haven't done anything.
- Mary Grey: [Sitting a on park bench in Central Park] You sound like one of them Fifth Avenue cadavers.
- Mr. Borden: Fifth Avenue what?
- Mary Grey: Those people that live over there...
- Mr. Borden: How do they sound.
- Mary Grey: Oh, they're always squawking. You'd think the country was going to the dogs.
- Mr. Borden: Well, they've got their problems too.
- Mary Grey: What problems? I used to stand at the Plaza at night and watch them go home. They look like a lot of wax dummies that have eaten an overdose of sour pickles.
- Mr. Borden: We could go some place and eat.
- Mary Grey: Where?
- Mr. Borden: Well, there's the Flamingo Club.
- Mary Grey: The Flamingo? You mean that very elegant cafe over on...
- Mr. Borden: Well, people must have a wonderful time there, it costs so much... I mean it. I'd love to go.
- Mary Grey: So would I. But, I'd just as soon go to the automat and keep the change.
- Mary Grey: [Sipping champagne] Every time I drink a sip of this, its just like drinking six pairs of silk stockings.
- Mr. Borden: Where did you come from?
- Mary Grey: From upstairs.
- Mr. Borden: I know, but, how did you get upstairs?
- Mary Grey: Well, don't you remember?
- Mr. Borden: In a way I do, but, in a way I don't.
- Mary Grey: I understand you play polo.
- Tim Borden: Yeah. What's that got to do with it?
- Mary Grey: Nothing. It's just that I'm amazed.
- Tim Borden: You're amazed at what?
- Mary Grey: I'm amazed to discover that horses have better breeding than the people who ride them.
- Mrs. Borden: Why, the situation is intolerable! I can't stay here another minute. I'm going to a hotel at once.
- Tim Borden: That will be swell and there'll be a nice little item in tomorrow's paper asking what Fifth Avenue matron has been run out of her home by what young blonde.
- Mrs. Borden: I'm not a matron!
- Tim Borden: You can't run out on us. Suppose she marries father?
- Katherine Borden: What's wrong with that? She's young and pretty.
- Mrs. Borden: Are you implying that I'm old and ugly!
- Mary Grey: Somebody's got to fill your father's shoes. They're probably too big for you.
- Tim Borden: Oh, I'm not a man. Is that it?
- Mary Grey: Oh, you wear long pants.
- Tim Borden: I don't know anything about the *pump* business?
- Mr. Borden: You'll learn. There's really nothing to it.
- Mrs. Borden: Did you have a nice time at the office, dear?
- Tim Borden: If anybody mentions the word pump to me again, I'm going to slaughter them.
- Mrs. Borden: We owe a great deal to pumps.
- Mrs. Borden: Well, look at the sacrifices I'm making... I don't go anywhere. I don't see anyone. I've given up all my friends.
- Katherine Borden: Or vice versa.
- Mr. Borden: Say, the family were being very nice to you when I came down.
- Mary Grey: They nearly scared me to death.
- Mary Grey: Well, it's pretty simple. Take something from somebody they don't want and they want it more than ever.
- Mr. Borden: You've got a lot of common sense.
- Mary Grey: You've lost yours, but, it'll come back.
- Mr. Borden: It's like having an old car, one you've got used to. You can either junk it or try to salvage it.
- Mary Grey: You're still in love with your wife, aren't you.
- Mr. Borden: Well, no. But, you see, after a certain time, when love goes away, something else is left in its place which is even more important.
- Tim Borden: A lot of sailors wandering around the park.
- Mary Grey: What's wrong with sailors? They helped win the war.
- Tim Borden: Great lovers, too.
- Mr. Borden: You sure I'm not keeping you from an engagement?
- Mrs. Borden: No. I was going to stay home tonight.
- Mr. Borden: You're all dressed up.
- Mrs. Borden: What? This? It's just a little informal thing I wear around.
- Mr. Borden: Well, it's very pretty.
- Mrs. Borden: It, eh, shows off my figure, doesn't it?
- Mr. Borden: It shows a lot of it, if that's what you mean.
- Mary Grey: [Breaking away from a kiss and embrace] I don't like rough stuff.
- Tim Borden: Why don't you be honest?
- Mary Grey: You're a big strong man, aren't you? Well, why don't you leave me alone?
- Mr. Borden: [Looking at the loud tie his secretary has given him for his birthday] Well, that's one bright spot on a gloomy day.
- Mary Grey: [to Borden] If I stay in this house any longer, you're not going to have any family, and I'm not going to have any sanity.
- Higgins: Aren't you feeling well, sir?
- Mr. Borden: I guess I'm all right.
- Higgins: Perhaps its a touch of spring fever.
- Mr. Borden: Perhaps.
- Higgins: I felt it myself this afternoon, just walking in the park.
- Mr. Borden: What park?
- Higgins: Central Park, sir.
- Mr. Borden: Oh, yes, I forgot it was there.
- Tim Borden: I just about got you figured. You're a gold digger.
- Mary Grey: And what *is* a gold digger?
- Tim Borden: You ought to know.
- Mary Grey: What makes you think you're not a gold digger? What have you done to deserve all this? What have you ever accomplished?
- Mr. Borden: I've got to get these shoes off before I go another step. They're killing me. I wonder who invented shoes?
- Mary Grey: If the world were carpeted with leather we wouldn't have to wear any shoes. We could go barefoot.