- Linda Mason: My father was a lot like you, just a man with a family. Never amounted to much, didn't care. But as long as he was alive, we always had plenty to eat and clothes to keep us warm.
- Jim Hardy: Were you happy?
- Linda Mason: Yes.
- Jim Hardy: Then your father was a very successful man.
- Mamie: [about winning Linda back] You could melt her heart right down to butter, if you'd only turn on the heat!
- Jim Hardy: [trying to describe Linda] She was sort of a medium built, medium height. With a nice evening gown on with a belt in the back. She's sorta built like the girl I knew from the corner drugstore who used to play pinball. Conshwella Schlepkiss. I remember she was high man three weeks in a row.
- Linda Mason: What would you like?
- Danny Reed: Orchids, the finest you've got.
- Linda Mason: Corsage?
- Danny Reed: No, no. A dozen, loose, looking like they don't care!
- Danny Reed: François! Have you seen Mr. Hanover?
- François: Twice, sir. The first time he came from his dressing room he had a telegram in his hand. He ordered scotch and soda. A bottle of each.
- Danny Reed: I know! I know!
- François: The second time he came from his dressing room he asked which way is Connecticut.
- Danny Reed: Connecticut?
- François: Connecticut. He said he had a friend there who knows about women too.
- Danny Reed: Why didn't you stop him?
- François: How can I stop him sir when I don't know which way is Connecticut!
- Linda Mason: You better go inside, it's cold and you don't have a coat...
- [gently pushes him]
- Linda Mason: Go on.
- Jim Hardy: [kisses her, moves back] Well I don't need a coat anymore.
- Lila Dixon: [to Ted] I love you... and Jim.
- Ted Hanover: Well, I love Jim too... but let's not get too chummy.
- Ted Hanover: I like it here... with you and Linda.
- Jim Hardy: And we love having you. When are you leaving?
- Ted Hanover: When a fellow is surprised to hear about his own wedding, brother that's when I go to work with a clear conscience.
- Jim Hardy: Lila's back in New York. I got a letter from her yesterday.
- Ted Hanover: What happened to her millionaire?
- Jim Hardy: Slight mistake there. He didn't own millions, he owed them.
- Ted Hanover: Poor girl. Always straying to greener pastures and finding spinach.
- Dance Extra: What is this the daisy chain?
- Ted Hanover: Sorry, we're just looking for the back of a woman we don't know.
- Lila Dixon: [about Jim] I know, but he gets a look.
- Ted Hanover: Aw, he's always had that look. It doesn't mean anything emotionally. It has something to do with his... liver.
- Ted Hanover: [reading] Come out and relax on a farm, music, dancing, home cooking. Open holidays only.
- [skeptical]
- Ted Hanover: Open holiday's only? Say, how many of them are there?
- Jim Hardy: [excited] About 15. That gives me 350 days to kick around in!
- Ted Hanover: [laughing] You would think of that!
- Mamie: Is your names Mamie?
- Daphne, Vanderbilt: No.
- Mamie: Get back in the kitchen!
- [later]
- Mamie: Is your names Miss Linda?
- Daphne, Vanderbilt: No.
- Danny Reed: How'd he get that far in five minutes?
- Ted Hanover: The lady must have been willing.
- Danny Reed: The world can't do this to us!
- [talking about peach preserves]
- Ted Hanover: Oh boy, do I go for those! Why they're great on... on...
- [pause]
- Ted Hanover: ... or even plain!
- Danny Reed: [after Jim explains his idea for the Holiday Inn] Did you get your discharge papers from that sanitarium?
- Ted Hanover: [about Jim] Simply tell him you've made a mistake. You don't want to give up your career and live on a farm.
- Lila Dixon: But he's already bought the farm - and the license - and the ring. b
- Jim Hardy: [singing] I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know, where the treetops glisten, and children listen, to hear sleigh bells in the snow.
- Jim Hardy: [singing] I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, with every Christmas card I write. May your days be merry and bright. And may all your Christmases be white.