The Lady Eve (1941) · 40 quotes
4th most-quoted character in The Lady Eve (1941): in 7 of its 40 quotes
Most scenes with: Muggsy (7), Jean Harrington (5)
I don't see why I have to do all the dirty work. There must be plenty of rich old dames waiting for you to push them around.
Colonel You find them, I'll push them.
Boy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one!
Colonel Don't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common.
Colonel Well, it certainly took you long enough to come back in the same outfit.
I'm lucky to have this on. Mr. Pike has been up a river for a year.
I think I'm in love with the poor fish, snakes and all...He's kinda touched something in my heart and I'd give a lot to be, well I mean I, I'm going to be exactly the way he thinks I am, the way he'd like me to be.
Colonel I'm sure that's very noble, Jean, and I wish you all the happiness in the world - all the little boys and all the little girls you want.
And you'll go straight too, won't you, Harry?
Colonel Straight to where?
Oh, you know what I mean. You can come and live with us, and you too Gerald - part of the time, anyway. We'll probably have a very beautiful place. Think how peaceful you can be.
Colonel Playing cribbage with Gerald. I can just see myself roaming around your estate with a weedsticker and fifty cents a week. And a pair of new slippers for Christmas. The trouble with people who reform is they always want to rain on everybody else's parade too. You tend to your knitting. I'll play the cards.
Not with him.
Colonel Children don't respect their parents any more.
Colonel Well, it was the last thing that entered my mind. Bless my soul. Let's have a drink on that...I'm all emotional. To say that I am thunderstruck is an understatement. She'll probably turn you down, but anyway...
I intend to make her as happy as I can.
Colonel She asks very little.
I suppose you know I'm very rich.
Colonel Aren't we all?
I'm sorry in a way because it would be so pleasant to buy lovely non-sensities for somebody who never had them.
Colonel Wouldn't it? That's the tragedy of the rich. They don't need anything.
Colonel I hope you'll never be unhappy.
I hope I'll never be more unhappy than I am right now.
When I think we let that sucker off scot free, it makes my blood boil.
Colonel I told you not to mix business with pleasure.
Colonel ...now she's honeymooning on a train with a man she hates.
Gerald Maybe she's gonna shoot him.
Colonel She's afraid of guns.
Gerald Maybe she's gonna push him out of the window.
Colonel No. You can't open a window on a train.
