- Patricia Carmody: Say, you must have had a bad day.
- Eric Gregg: Its not half as bad as the evening's going to be.
- Patricia Carmody: Do you want a pal to listen to your tale of woe?
- Eric Gregg: I'm afraid it wouldn't be interesting. I'm just about to face some music and, boy, the tempo's going to be terrific.
- Nona Gregg: I'm tired out. I've been looking at these four walls until they're beginning to make faces at me. And this dime store china, its making an old woman out of me.
- Eric Gregg: Baby, if you're an old woman, I'd certainly be nuts about your grandmother.
- Nona Gregg: Stall. Stall! Listen to me, Eric Gregg, I'm through stalling. Life with you has been one big stall ever since we've been married.
- Eric Gregg: Take it easy, honey, and quit grousing. We'll step out this evening. I'll take you to Ciro's or the Red Pheasant or anyplace you say.
- Nona Gregg: The Red Pheasant?
- Eric Gregg: It's a bet. I'll be home the minute I get through.
- Nona Gregg: Well, what'll I wear?
- Eric Gregg: Use your own judgement. You'd look okay to me in an old bath towel.
- Nona Gregg: The best thing I have doesn't look much better than an old bath towel.
- Blair Thurston: Mrs. Gregg, you're a very clever woman.
- Nona Gregg: Thank you.
- Blair Thurston: Now, I admire clever women. One sees so few of them.
- Patricia Carmody: Now, look, don't you start worrying. One worrier in the family is enough and I'm the guy that's going to do the worrying.
- Eric Gregg: Hey, wait a minute. What's come over you? Why, you're actually showing an interest in my work. You never did that before.
- Nona Gregg: Well, there's no law against a wife showing an interest in her husband's work, is there?
- Eric Gregg: I'll say there isn't. Keep it up.
- Patricia Carmody: Come on, give me the bad news. How much for everything?
- Jim Faber: Rent, furniture payments and everything, only 150 a month.
- Patricia Carmody: Only a 150! Nona, do you realize that I only make 200 a month.
- Jim Faber: Sure, I do. But, this is what I wanted, darling.
- Nona Gregg: I'm fed up with great gobs of ideals being served to me morning, noon, and night. I see very little future in the insurance business for my husband. And I think a woman should definitely look to the future.
- Blair Thurston: You're quite right. I'm sure I can do something about your future.
- Nona Gregg: And the consideration?
- Blair Thurston: In return for a slight service tomorrow afternoon, I'm prepared to cancel you indebtedness to this company.
- Nona Gregg: I stopped at the corner of Elm and Sunset Drive. And just as the signal changed, a car drove right through the red light and struck a poor colored man and knocked him down.
- Eric Gregg: I certainly wish you the best of luck, old man. Well, I know you're going to be the best husband my wife ever had.
- 'Specs' Carter: Gregg, you owe me two dollars plus eight dollars and sixty cents interest.
- Eric Gregg: Yeah, but, Spec, what about your slogan: If you can't pay, we don't care.
- 'Specs' Carter: Yeah, but if you *can* pay, we do care.
- Eric Gregg: Say, when they decide to amalgamate, they really want to amalgamate! I think that was the big brain on the phone.
- Patricia Carmody: Just how long do you think he'll continue being the big brain?
- Eric Gregg: Oh, until we amalgamate.