A character in His Girl Friday (1940)

Mayor quotes from His Girl Friday (1940)

Clarence Kolb

Tied for 4th most-quoted character in His Girl Friday (1940): in 4 of its 54 quotes

Scenes with Mayor

4 scenes
Mayor

Do you realize there are two hundred thousand votes at stake? And if Earl Williams don't hang, we're gonna lose 'em?

Mayor

A guy who's done nothing for the last forty years but play pinochle gets elected Governor and right away, he thinks he's a Tarzan.

Mayor

Have you seen Sheriff Hartwell?

It's hard to tell, your Honor. You see, there's so many cockroaches around here.

Mayor

Well, it looks like ten years apiece for you two birds.

Does it?

Whenever you think you've got the Morning Post licked, it's time for you to get out of town.

Mayor

Whistling in the dark? Well that isn't gonna help you this time. You're through.

Listen. The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat. [Archie/Archibald Leach was Cary Grant's real name.]

Sheriff and the Mayor

Is that so?

We've been in worse jams than this, haven't we, Hildy?

Nope.

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